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    Protests too much —Dave Schuler
   By the way, I suggest a five yard penalty for inopportune use of the word (URL) probe> in a headline. Dave! (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
   
        Re: Protests too much —John Neal
   (...) Well, it would certainly suck to be him right now! (Yikes, 15 yards from spot of ball?) BTW, in general, is setting up sting ops a proper behavior of the press? I get a little wary when news stations play cops under the guise of "investigative (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
   
        Re: Protests too much —Joseph Greene
     (...) If you ask me it beats the daily 10 minute spot on a car bomb in Iraq... If it happens every day, it's not news folks... (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
    
         (canceled) —Dave Schuler
   
        Re: Protests too much —Dave Schuler
   (...) Hey, I'll take a daily 100 minute spot on a car bomb in Iraq, if only they'd air even one solid minute of footage of the innocent civilians that American forces kill each day. Why, at this rate, we'll only have to slaughter a few thousand more (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
   
        Re: Protests too much —John Neal
   (...) Deliberately? I don't understand your complaint. JOHN (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
   
        Re: Protests too much —Dave Schuler
     (...) Oh, just that they go on and on about a car bomb that killed a few dozen innocent civilians, but they don't even mention the residential raids by US forces that kill an equal or greater number of innocent civilians. The car bomb is terrible, (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
    
         Re: Protests too much —Joseph Greene
     (...) Well, as callous as it sounds, I do believe that after 2000+ years of continuous war in the middle east the term 'innocent civilian' is an oxymoron when referring to that part of the world.. just my mean spirited opinion... Two words: Carpet (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
    
         Re: Protests too much —Dave Schuler
     (...) I agree that it sounds callous and mean-spirited, and in raw pragmatic terms it's just not a helpful course to pursue. By that same logic, we in the United States have been involved in well over two centuries of continuous war, so anyone could (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
    
         Re: Protests too much —Joseph Greene
      (...) Maybe I should rephrase that, I believe that If we could trust them to only bomb the begeezers out of each other, we should leave, and simply ignore their existence until the stop the fighting. But they won't keep it within their own (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
     
          Re: Protests too much —Scott Arthur
      (...) Not quite (URL) true>. (...) Yeah... but many of the recent conflicts were aided by Washington. Think about how SH got WMD. (...) Tell that to the millions slaughtered at the hands of Washington in South-East Asia. What about Washington's (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
     
          Re: Protests too much —Joseph Greene
      (...) <SNIP> (...) Gotta love how languages change. Geno meaning race as in Genus Thus Human = Human Just my take. (...) Yeah, from some capitalist pig, whether that pig was from US, China, Japan, Russia who knows. (...) Meddling in Central America, (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
     
          Re: Protests too much —Ross Crawford
       (...) Is that actually law in some states? That seems a little over the top. Note that kids in several European countries are "forced" to learn English in school. And I also had to learn French in school, although I remember very little of it now. (...) (19 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
      
           Re: Protests too much —Joseph Greene
       (...) Not so much law as it is being integrated into the base curriculum in a few states. Mostly southern right now, but if the trend continues.... (19 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
     
          Re: Protests too much —Scott Arthur
      (...) The USA gave him WMD. That is a fact. (...) None of which supports the USA's Foreign Policy with respect to those nations & regions. (...) See the bottom of (URL) this post>. (...) Do you care to expend on that? There is plenty of proof that (...) (19 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
    
         Re: Protests too much —Scott Arthur
     (...) Hmm. I wonder if Mohamed Atta thought the same of the those in the twin-towers? Scott A (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)  
   
        Re: Protests too much —Scott Arthur
   (...) Q1 Did a marine not kill an incapacitated man "deliberately" in "self-defence"? Q2 Is there much of a difference between deliberately targeting civilians and having (URL) disregard> for their safety? Scott A (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 

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