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"Robertson Predicts 'Mass Killing'" - Bowser - 1/3/2007 5:25:01 PM
- The scary scenario - azstrummer - 1/3/2007 5:38:19 PM

Remember when Bush promised unqualified support for al-Maliki? - Bowser - 1/3/2007 5:35:02 PM

First Hero of the New Year - Daniel - 1/3/2007 1:54:38 PM
- Go to www.wnbc. com for info - carl - 1/3/2007 3:50:27 PM

NYT's moderate view of Global warming - gbaikie - 1/3/2007 4:05:08 AM

WMDs Found In Iraq!!! - Donald - 10/16/2006 2:26:49 PM
- re: WMDs Found In Iraq!!! - Matt - 1/2/2007 11:51:49 PM
- 650,000 Iraqi death toll - Eric - 10/16/2006 5:53:04 PM
  - Analysis from IraqBodyCount.net - Tom Brosz - 10/16/2006 6:42:28 PM
    - Analysis from Statistical Assessment Service - Laurie Street - 10/17/2006 4:42:25 PM
      - re: Analysis from Statistical Assessment Service - TB - 10/17/2006 11:18:22 PM
        
        Who runs the Statistical Assessment Service? - Lindy - 10/18/2006 2:42:25 AM
    - Leftists don't bother with facts. Facts only confuse them. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 10/16/2006 7:57:48 PM
      - The interesting part is that IraqBodyCount IS leftist. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/16/2006 8:04:51 PM

President Bush's Statement on Execution of Saddam Hussein - SDF - 1/1/2007 10:06:05 PM
- Another Christian hypocrisy. - Bowser - 1/2/2007 9:20:49 PM

Saddam to hang within 36 hours - Laurie Street - 12/28/2006 11:21:32 PM
- News on this is very erratic. - TB - 12/29/2006 7:09:30 PM
- Mixed emotions - azstrummer - 12/29/2006 5:32:29 PM
  - re: Mixed emotions - Robert - 12/31/2006 5:37:57 PM
    - Death penalty, and mixed emotions... - R.L. - 1/1/2007 7:54:55 PM
      - re: Death penalty, and mixed emotions... - Robert - 1/2/2007 8:03:18 PM
  - re: Mixed emotions - TB - 12/29/2006 8:20:27 PM
    - I just can't quite get on board with killing people that aren't trying to kill you back - FrankC - 12/29/2006 9:01:54 PM
      - Killing him will clearly establish the rule of the Iraqi government and courts. - Scott Evil - 12/29/2006 11:23:34 PM
        
        re: What is the difference between "killing" and "murder"? (n/t) - Johannes - 12/30/2006 1:04:12 AM
        
        Saddam got a trial. - TB - 12/30/2006 1:05:53 AM
        
        re: What is the difference between a "mob" and a "jury"? - Johannes - 12/30/2006 5:05:44 AM
        
        Structure is the difference. - Mary Anne - 12/31/2006 1:48:25 AM
        
        As long as the govt isn't seen as a puppet of the US - azstrummer - 12/30/2006 12:26:56 AM
    - re: Mixed emotions - azstrummer - 12/29/2006 8:25:53 PM
      - re: Mixed emotions - TB - 12/29/2006 8:38:23 PM
        
        the fact that he won't be able to escape "justice" will help establish the rule of Iraqi law on all Iraqi's - Scott Evil - 12/29/2006 11:27:25 PM
        
        A few weeks ago Iraq hung 12 convicted insurgents. - Lee - 12/30/2006 1:57:14 AM
- Kinda reminds one of Russia, Eastern Europe, 1940's and '50's. - Bowser - 12/28/2006 11:30:48 PM

3,000 to 1 - Donald - 12/30/2006 4:38:07 AM
- So the Iraqis could execute one dictator. - Lee - 12/30/2006 7:00:31 AM
  - Is it our responsibility to take out dictators of oil rich countries? - Andrew - 12/30/2006 11:08:32 PM
    - Our moral and military strength? - Lee - 12/30/2006 11:26:39 PM
      - Virtual nooses - Alan G. Archer - 12/31/2006 8:20:03 AM
        
        re: Virtual nooses - gbaikie - 1/1/2007 2:52:12 AM

Update from Somalia - TB - 12/31/2006 11:56:32 PM
- re: Update from Somalia - gbaikie - 1/1/2007 1:28:41 AM

Iraq - is this stasis? Serious question. - Bowser - 12/30/2006 6:35:57 PM
- re: Iraq - is this stasis? Serious question. - gbaikie - 12/31/2006 10:06:18 PM
- Common, Bowser! Your Democrat friends will control the next Congress. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/31/2006 9:13:42 PM
- re: Iraq - is this stasis? Serious question. - RobVG - 12/30/2006 11:47:36 PM
  - Let the boarders defend themselves - FrankC - 12/31/2006 6:15:32 AM
    - "Borders". - RobVG - 12/31/2006 6:50:15 AM
      - Looking for a hole to crawl into. (n/t) - RobVG - 12/31/2006 7:09:35 AM
        
        Couldn't resist but I have done my share - FrankC - 12/31/2006 6:24:14 PM

Hussein dead - Andrew - 12/30/2006 7:09:37 AM
- Sic semper... - TB - 12/31/2006 7:41:45 AM
- They turned it into a religious execution, rather than criminal. - Bowser - 12/31/2006 5:51:06 AM
- re: Hussein dead - TB - 12/30/2006 10:45:04 PM
  - Almost sounds like 500# bombs on Fallujah, doesn't it? Or WP on civilians. - Bowser - 12/31/2006 5:46:55 AM

War Against Marriage & Men - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/30/2006 6:15:19 AM
- How can that be construed as "war" upon marriage. - Bowser - 12/31/2006 5:30:13 AM
- Three is an unstable number. - Mary Anne - 12/31/2006 2:12:02 AM
  - Passed a guy once with three goats in a Plymouth. - Bowser - 12/31/2006 5:36:30 AM

"Jobs Americans won't do." - TB - 12/28/2006 8:21:16 AM
- If a job can't pay a living wage it shouldn't be done until it does. - Bowser - 12/28/2006 6:47:59 PM
  - Sorry. I meant IF A JOB CAN'T PAY A LIVING WAGE IT SHOULDN'T BE DONE UNTIL IT DOES! - Bowser - 12/28/2006 6:52:07 PM
    - "Economic slavery" - TB - 12/29/2006 7:00:45 PM
      - If you worship the buck, that makes sense. - Bowser - 12/29/2006 8:27:46 PM
        
        re: If you worship the buck, that makes sense. - SteveS - 12/30/2006 3:28:17 PM
        
        Look around... - TB - 12/29/2006 8:41:04 PM
    - I agree - SDF - 12/29/2006 9:48:21 AM
- And yet, there are a lot of jobs in America that do get done by illegal immigrants - alcaray - 12/28/2006 4:44:13 PM
- Labor exploitation - Mary Anne - 12/28/2006 4:30:04 PM
  - Libertarian inconsistency - dtb - 12/28/2006 6:06:14 PM
    - Not really. - TB - 12/28/2006 7:12:05 PM
      - Mexican Federal Highway 1 - Robert - 12/28/2006 8:07:07 PM
    - Conservatives hide behind "libertarian" philosophy. - Bowser - 12/28/2006 6:58:14 PM
    - I think it has to do with how/why you come to libertarianism. - alcaray - 12/28/2006 6:17:23 PM

Chavez update - TB - 12/29/2006 7:03:14 PM
- I wondered when you'd find that. Easy and simple question. - Bowser - 12/29/2006 8:23:46 PM
  - Ridiculous question. - TB - 12/29/2006 8:36:37 PM
    - re: Ridiculous question. - gbaikie - 12/30/2006 2:19:44 AM
    - Refused to answer, didn't you? - Bowser - 12/29/2006 9:55:41 PM

"Silver bullet" flu vaccine? - TB - 12/29/2006 6:11:44 AM
- re: "Silver bullet" flu vaccine? - Laurie Street - 12/29/2006 5:18:52 PM

Ain't it great! "Bush, advisers work to craft new Iraq policy" - Bowser - 12/28/2006 7:06:42 PM
- Meanwhile, the drums are beating. "Bush's Iraq Plan Gets Big Build-Up" - Bowser - 12/28/2006 7:11:11 PM
  - But wait! "New Iraq plan looks like the old Iraq plan" - Bowser - 12/28/2006 7:16:18 PM
    - Now, the Great Decider seeks "more consultation" - Bowser - 12/28/2006 9:40:43 PM
      - Meanwhile: 2,992 - Donald - 12/29/2006 2:35:52 PM

Ethiopian military carrying out air strikes in Somalia - TB - 12/24/2006 9:45:51 PM
- Our buddies the Yemenis killing off a few odd Somali refugees - alcaray - 12/28/2006 10:22:30 PM
- Fasy moving situation. Islamist forces crumbling. - Buck Galaxy - 12/27/2006 7:42:19 AM
  - re: Learning - TB - 12/27/2006 7:17:36 PM
    - Hint...they won't treat them with kid's gloves. - Lee - 12/28/2006 1:21:41 AM
      - PC induced stupidity = trial by jury? - Mary Anne - 12/28/2006 4:37:11 PM
        
        No it's called war. - Lee - 12/28/2006 7:30:58 PM
        
        Boy, do I have a book for you. - Mary Anne - 12/29/2006 12:52:18 AM
        
        More than just winners and losers in war. - alcaray - 12/28/2006 9:49:37 PM
      - Don't hold your breath waiting for US to use such tactics. - Scott Evil - 12/28/2006 3:47:36 PM
        
        "...it [the Iraqi government] gets the job done for US" - Mary Anne - 12/29/2006 12:34:48 AM

Former President Gerald Ford has died. - Mary Anne - 12/27/2006 5:35:06 AM
- He didn't just replace Nixon... - Nattering-Nay Bob - 12/28/2006 2:16:22 PM
  - Everybody Luved TRICKY DICK!!!!!!! - carl - 12/28/2006 9:57:59 PM
- Last remaining member of WARREN COMMISSION to go - carl - 12/27/2006 7:49:52 PM
  - Mort Sahl made them do it. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/27/2006 11:44:18 PM
- PARDON Me????? - carl - 12/27/2006 4:15:42 PM
  - I'm torn on the pardon issue... - Scott Evil - 12/27/2006 5:33:03 PM
    - But was FORD COACHED? - carl - 12/27/2006 5:40:43 PM
- Mixed emotions about the guy - azstrummer - 12/27/2006 3:55:03 PM
  - It will be interesting to hear how the talking heads atempt to define and re-define him... - Scott Evil - 12/27/2006 5:38:48 PM
    - In other words... - Robert - 12/27/2006 11:15:44 PM
    - To the media, a dead Republican can finally be a good Republican. (n/t) - TB - 12/27/2006 7:15:08 PM
      - That's sad. - Robert - 12/27/2006 11:50:06 PM
        
        Robert, I was around when Ford was President. - TB - 12/28/2006 7:34:06 AM
        
        So was I - Robert - 12/28/2006 6:04:20 PM
        
        "Prove it." - TB - 12/28/2006 8:12:54 PM
        
        So was I - Robert - 12/28/2006 10:22:33 PM
        
        Like others here, Tom needs his 'conspiracies' (n/t) - R.L. - 12/28/2006 11:24:15 PM
        
        So was I. - Mary Anne - 12/28/2006 3:37:26 PM
        
        Difference between the Ford Era and the Reagan Era - Daniel - 12/28/2006 2:16:29 PM
      - Yeh, nobody had a kind word for Ford til now. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/27/2006 10:19:05 PM
      - It's all a big plot, scheme and conspiracy to drive paranoids nuts. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/27/2006 9:24:45 PM
    - Honesty and POLITICS are like WATER and Vinegar....... - carl - 12/27/2006 5:44:45 PM
- The golfing world grieves. - Scott Evil - 12/27/2006 2:33:54 PM
- Two Gerald Ford quotes: - Mary Anne - 12/27/2006 5:59:10 AM
  - Thanks for those - Fox - 12/28/2006 5:23:43 AM
  - Nicely stated - Donald - 12/27/2006 3:07:57 PM
- Read bio and autobio. Nice guy, bright, hard-worker, not really clumsy, either. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/27/2006 5:57:05 AM
  - Chevy Chase Outa Work? - carl - 12/27/2006 4:17:06 PM
    - They were great, and Chase had to be quite an athlete too. - Bowser - 12/27/2006 6:19:11 PM
      - Don't forget the 1976 Pink Panther spoof of Ford - LJK - 12/27/2006 6:28:15 PM

"Hunt for CIA 'black site' in Poland" - there's hope now for finding it. - Bowser - 12/28/2006 5:14:19 AM
- France, Germany, et al. display higher regard for human rights than US. - Bowser - 12/28/2006 5:17:25 AM
  - Good for them. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 12/28/2006 3:52:06 PM
    - It is nice. Something to which to aspire. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/28/2006 6:59:40 PM

Chery recall - gbaikie - 12/27/2006 12:21:08 PM
- re: Chery recall - Alan G. Archer - 12/28/2006 9:16:47 AM
  - Indians await the £1,000 family car - gbaikie - 12/28/2006 12:59:47 PM
    - Have you ever visited Calcutta? (n/t) - alcaray - 12/28/2006 4:46:57 PM
- I can't agree more. - Scott Evil - 12/27/2006 2:37:52 PM

Apparently the goal now is to not look as if HE lost. - Bowser - 12/27/2006 9:38:50 PM
- Bringing democracy, freedom - "U.S. says three more troops killed in Iraq" - Bowser - 12/28/2006 12:28:48 AM
- re: Apparently the goal now is to not look as if HE lost. - azstrummer - 12/27/2006 10:40:36 PM
  - History's backward telescope - Fox - 12/28/2006 5:44:51 AM

An explanation of the official Ford pictures. - Bowser - 12/28/2006 4:45:00 AM

And the biggest liar of the year award??!! - Bowser - 12/24/2006 4:30:17 AM
- Faith-based administration - Fox - 12/25/2006 4:33:27 AM
- Amazing. - TB - 12/24/2006 5:12:52 AM
  - Calling a lie a lie is biased, huh? Conservative Newspeak is here! - Bowser - 12/24/2006 3:45:46 PM
    - 100,000 isn't right, either. - TB - 12/24/2006 9:19:19 PM
  - Incidentally... - TB - 12/24/2006 5:15:13 AM
    - re: Incidentally... - gbaikie - 12/24/2006 2:19:15 PM
      - Like talking to walls, isn't it? - TB - 12/24/2006 9:32:46 PM
        
        Say it over and over and over and people damned well should believe it, huh!!?? - Bowser - 12/25/2006 4:50:48 PM
      - "...no large stockpiles were found,..." - Alan G. Archer - 12/24/2006 4:20:59 PM
        
        re: "...no large stockpiles were found,..." - gbaikie - 12/25/2006 4:31:35 AM
        
        re: "...no large stockpiles were found,..." - Alan G. Archer - 12/25/2006 2:06:01 PM
        
        re: "...no large stockpiles were found,..." - gbaikie - 12/26/2006 1:14:20 AM
        
        re: "...no large stockpiles were found,..." - Alan G. Archer - 12/26/2006 3:49:44 PM
        
        re: "...no large stockpiles were found,..." - gbaikie - 12/26/2006 11:49:47 PM
        
        Follow-ups: Hutton Inquiry, Chapter 12, and Jack Straw - Alan G. Archer - 12/26/2006 10:02:38 PM
        
        re: Follow-ups: - TB - 12/27/2006 12:40:31 AM

Bush works overtime to degrade the US. - Bowser - 12/26/2006 8:27:43 PM

When this is possible, there can't be a "stand up - stand down" solution to Iraq. - Bowser - 12/25/2006 8:05:34 PM
- What we're left with is "stand back" - Fox - 12/26/2006 2:14:59 AM

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