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Now that I've sat and thought about this for a while, I've changed my opinion. He should hanged for treason instead.

Reply to Arabs and Israelis - Another Point of Agreement in International JoeUser Forums

Rachel Corrie was a very dedicated Peace Worker that was literally murdered by Israeli occupiers in the Gaza Strip last year. They claim it was an 'accident'... it was murder! She never thought of herself as a super girl... just a Peace Worker. If that is something super, so be it. "Murdered Peace Wo

Reply to Christmas Wish For Me in Current Events JoeUser Forums

And on top of that, he's one ugly bastard.

Christmas Wish For Me in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Ramsey Clark was on TV yesterday complaining about how Saddam Hussein was not going to get a fair trial. Then a thought popped into my mind. I have a srong feeling I'd be ecstatic if I woke up Christmas morning to hear that the bastard who created International ANSWER and infected the rest of the world with it was assassinated just like another member of Sa

Reply to Why did Bush want to remove Saddam? in Politics JoeUser Forums

That pipe drean has cost this country 2,100 lives, 35,000 injuries and almost $300 billion dollars. Almost all of that was not to remove Saddam but the folly that followed for which Bush is responsible. Osama still has not been captured and Moslem terrorists are active all over the world including in Iraq. <

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You know, Col. Tukhachevsky, as critical of the President's venture into Iraq as I am, I have no regrets whatsoever about supporting a military action to oust Hussein from power. Hussein made it his duty to be a thorn in the side of America ever since the first war. The guy had every intention of restarting the WMD programs once the sanctions were removed (which appeared to very likely to happen in the near future. Even the Deulfer report made clear

Reply to Why Iraq Has No Army in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Actually, GP, you kind of missed my point. I didn't list these to count beans, or coup or even try to make you look foolish. I listed these just to show that yes, there is a military in Iraq, yes the members are participating in their own nation's defense, and no, they aren't just sitting around collecting a paycheck, hoping our

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You post a claim that there is no progress in Iraq, then when someone brings forward concrete numbers as to the effectiveness of that same army you dismissed, you accuse him of being a bean-counter and having no touch with reality. Which is it, GP? Is it quantifiable or not? Because if it isn't quantifiable ever under any

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You know, ParaTed2k, when my son turned six, we threw him a birthday party, and one of the games my wife and I had the children play was "Guess how many jelly beans are in the jar." I'm willing to bet you would have cleaned up at that game, as you are quite the bean-counter. You can write all the statistical figures that you want coming out of Iraq, but what does it all mean if an American can't even set foot outside the Green Zone without masses of

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Good article here by Steve Sailer. Click here for link By Steve Sailer James Fallow's Atlantic report on the failure of our vaunted "traini

Reply to Kurt Vonnegut - Warped and loving it in Politics JoeUser Forums

I've only read a little Vonnegut. Galapagos and Breakfast of Champions. I wouldn't classify either of them as brilliant. Then again, I'm not much of a literary critic. As for the substance of what you've written...I think too many people blindly praise "courage" without any regard for context. As annoying as I find Bill Maher, I actually agreed with his controversial statement about the courageousness of the 9/11 hijackers. It upset a lot

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Not bad

Reply to Iraq leaders say resistance is legitimate in Current Events JoeUser Forums

GP, would you consider Japanese kamikaze pilots to have committed terrorist acts? They attacked military targets using similar means, i.e. blowing themselves up. No. Gideon wrote an article a few weeks ago about insurgents and terrorists and the naming conventions that are used in the media. Th

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I wrote these comments a couple months ago for Myrrander in his article, "Screw September 11" Myrrander: [sarcasm]But Allende did a bad thing. He started trying to turn Chile into a Social

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Well, then I guess all you want is a puppet government, which hasn't ever been the plan. Too bad freedom means so little to you that you would wish bondage for Iraqis, as long as they are held down by a tyrant friendly to the U.S. Freedom doesn't exist in Iraq right now. There is no freedom when 50 Iraqis a day are killed in car bombings. Freed

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It's a matter of methods, not political stance. If they were "resisting" democratically, or through non-violent means, there wouldn't be anything wrong with it. From that perspective, I'd agree. The problem is sickos like those referred to will take any statement like this as an affirmation of their tactics. They'll see it as win

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So you prefer no effect rather than some, even if just a little? You're one of those people who expect things to happen over night. That "some effect" is representatives of Iraq saying that attacking American troops is legitimate. The very people who American troops have given their lives to protect tu

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Condemning terrorism is fine, but it means very little to me, and has little effect on American troops over there. Frankly, I don't really give a damn about the Iraqis, or the Mohammedans in general. If satisfying their desires and looking out for their well-being benefits America and our allies, then I'm all for it. I do not support the creation of democracies in the Mohammedan world which legitimizes and enables their hatred of us. Given the choi

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Lawrence Auster's reply to Richard Lowry of the NRO who makes excuses for the statement: Lowry excuses inexcusable statement by Iraqi leaders I said last night that the Iraqi leaders' statement justifying resistance against U.S. forces should be a d

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Nice little spin job yourself. Strange, but none of my training taught me that military targets were off limits during a war. Just as we were encouraged to take out enemy military targets, imagine, we were also trained to expect the enemy would do the same... even if we didn't like it. Excuse me, ParaTe

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gp, if you wanna fix this page, go to your blog site and click on 'edit' then find the bad quote tag and correct it. Thanks, Kingbee. I think I took care of it. I'm still trying to get the hang of all the tags.

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You're right, I am picking out a point that's actually relevant to Americans. From the news article: In Egypt, the final communique's attempt to define terrorism omitted any reference to attacks against U.S. or Iraqi forces. Delegates from across the political and religious spectrum said the omission was intentional. They spoke anonymously, saying they fe

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Nice twisting of words. Their assessment is that during war, military targets aren't terrorist attacks. Which, btw, is true. I'm not debating terminology. This communique has no purpose but to say that bombing a market full of shiites is wrong, but attacking a US convoy is legitimate resistance. Is th

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Kind of a bit of meaningless rhetoric though. I mean they make a point to say the resistence is legitimate.. "as long as..." Then they go on to pretty much describe the major tactics of the resistance... i.e.. targeting civilians, mosques, and other non military targets. It's basically a comprimise to the Sunnis in the meeting.<B

Iraq leaders say resistance is legitimate in Current Events JoeUser Forums

by Lawrence Auster: I have always dismissed the idea of our simply pulling out of Iraq without a fully worked out plan for how we would carry on the war against our jihadist