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| Who's Accountable? (URL) For example, look at the way the administration rhetorically linked Saddam to Sept. 11. As The Associated Press put it: "The implication from Bush on down was that Saddam supported Osama bin Laden's network. Iraq and the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Bush's reckless economics By Robert Kuttner, 6/4/2003 (URL) IT'S EASY to understand why the administration is plowing ahead with one immense tax cut after another. The Bush people oppose social outlays, and the best strategy for cutting public (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Yes, but Clinton remembered one thing, "It's the economy, stupid." People knew that Nixon was a mean man, not an honest man. But they felt he could run the country. Clinton could run the country: not one of your complaints about him precludes (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Have a read of this: Now dissent is [immoral]: (URL) nation is now at war," said Peter Beinart, the editor of the liberal magazine New Republic. "And in such an environment, domestic political dissent is immoral without a prior statement of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: US finds evidence of WMD at last !
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| (...) My favourite place to debate is the pub, but that's another story. ;) (...) I tend not to trust US media due to its “liberal” bias and its blind support for all things Bush... ;) (1) Here's a couple of quotes for you: Two 'clean' trucks - the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Should we be concerned?
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| (...) Oh, I actively dislike Shrub. I hope that is very clear, no dodging necessary. I think he is the worst president we have had in my lifetime (which is to say the last 40 years or so). And I hope he is actually the idiot that I think he may be (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Such an attack is usally groundless and proffered by a person that has no idea what the "left" is really about. The all encompassing "media" is hardly "left." Offhand, I'd say Costello has no real knowledge of "left" or "right" -- I hear a lot (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: US finds evidence of WMD at last !
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| A. I'm actually in favor of less taxation, but that it is not the way our system is currently structured and I am not going to hold my breath waiting for a change. B. I don't want to get mired in a discussion about what is 'income' v. 'capital' -- (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Interesting idea...?!
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| (...) I've never seen it discussed here, but the excellent radio program This American Life ran a story on it recently: (URL) that link doesn't work, go to (URL) and look for the episode titled "Regime Change" from 4/18/03. Critics sometimes look (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: US finds evidence of WMD at last !
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| (...) Thus full circle, bringing back the idea of the UN and it's 'un'failure. Of course, some would say that the *only* reason why Iraq's supposed WoMD were destroyed at all was the imminent threat of the US military action. I would not be one of (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Oh I'd love to have a black/white, right/wrong stance as clear and simplistic as the one you're proposing, Larry. But the world's a complex place, which needs complex problem solving--there is nothing cut 'n dry in life. So when I say that I (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Speaks for itself...
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| I wasn't really holding the guy up for sainthood, mind you -- there not being too many politicians on the side of the angels. I agree with your assessment of politics as usual. If Byrd is making a bid for a soundbite, at least I am not disagreeing (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Speaks for itself...
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| Let's try this again. "The Truth Will Emerge..." (URL) truth will emerge"... more like "the PORK will emerge". Byrd may be right about Iraq, for the most part. Unnecessary war, and what appears to be a bungling of the aftermath in a much more (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| "Free State Project" (URL) Free State Project is a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty- oriented people will move to a single state of the U.S., where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government. The success (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes: Why bring Islam? (...) Problem is, you're not going to. Not saying there aren't lots of repressive regimes in the non Muslim world, mind you, but there sure aren't very many NON repressive ones in the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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| (...) <snip> (...) It's not that I have a problem with religious fanatics, it's what those fanatics *do*. I would venture that 90% of the world's terrorism is perpetrated by Muslim fanatics. (...) The US has *no* intention of destroying Iraq, but (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Tax relief?
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| (...) No I checked the latest bill pretty thoroughly, and all brackets recieve relief, actually if the original plan for marriage penalty relief was still in force I would pay almost no federal income tax at all. (...) Exactly, which is why I want (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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