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Coffee with Richard Perle: Iraq as a Do-Over? Liberation, Yes. Occupation, No - gbaikie - 12/9/2006 8:50:29 AM
- re: O.F. G's. S. - Total Abnegation of Reality - 12/13/2006 12:08:09 AM

"A land without a people..." - alcaray - 12/13/2006 12:02:07 AM

"Captain Obvious" - TB - 12/12/2006 5:55:35 AM

The White House "Fact Sheet: Training Iraqi Security Forces". Questions. - Bowser - 12/11/2006 5:39:36 PM
- re: Training Iraqi Security Forces - TB - 12/11/2006 6:03:01 PM
  - Believing your own propaganda can lead to mistakes. - Bowser - 12/11/2006 6:21:56 PM
    - "And why is it taking so long to "train" the police and army?" - azstrummer - 12/12/2006 12:00:06 AM

Runoff election results in Louisiana - TB - 12/11/2006 6:10:38 AM
- re: Runoff election results in Louisiana - azstrummer - 12/11/2006 11:56:20 PM
- Was something wrong with the polling in LA too? - alcaray - 12/11/2006 11:23:16 PM

The Viagra Monologues - ER - 6/29/2006 12:43:55 PM
- It's the hypocrisy, isn't it. - Bowser - 12/11/2006 5:49:28 AM
  - Yep, on both sides of the fence - REB - 12/11/2006 4:10:32 PM
- a substantial fraction - FrankC - 6/29/2006 7:22:04 PM
  - re: a substantial fraction - ER - 6/29/2006 11:23:52 PM
    - Maybe I did misread you - FrankC - 6/29/2006 11:45:00 PM
  - How come you never pointed this out to Tom? - Lindy - 6/29/2006 9:33:01 PM
    - It all depends on what you are trying to say - FrankC - 6/29/2006 11:32:06 PM
- re: The Viagra Monologues - Tom Brosz - 6/29/2006 6:20:44 PM
  - Changing the words around Tom......... - Lindy - 6/29/2006 9:34:25 PM
    - re: Changing the words around Tom......... - gbaikie - 6/30/2006 8:47:55 AM
      - re: Changing the words around Tom......... - Linda - 12/11/2006 12:52:28 AM
- Miaow! (n/t) - ER - 6/29/2006 3:30:44 PM
  - re: Miaow! - ER - 6/29/2006 3:38:58 PM
    - re: Miaow! - SteveS - 6/30/2006 12:10:01 AM
      - I know, and Michael Moore is a hunter and a crack shot. - ER - 6/30/2006 1:10:37 AM
    - re: Miaow! - REB - 6/29/2006 3:47:22 PM
      - What a history! Are you sure we're not related? - ER - 6/29/2006 5:09:51 PM
        
        I don't know who my blood-father is. What where you doing in 66? :) - REB - 6/29/2006 5:22:48 PM
        
        In '66 I was flunking calculus and trying to get in the Naval Reserve. - ER - 6/29/2006 6:31:48 PM
        
        re: In '66 I was flunking calculus and trying to get in the Naval Reserve. - REB - 6/29/2006 6:43:08 PM
        
        Whew! - ER - 6/29/2006 7:02:40 PM
- It's precisely what I have always liked about the Republicans - Publius - 6/29/2006 1:57:45 PM
- re: The Viagra Monologues - Donald - 6/29/2006 1:47:23 PM
  - He lives a lonely life... - Lindy - 6/29/2006 3:04:39 PM

Another ghost thread appears - FrankC (moderator) - 12/11/2006 6:43:12 AM
- Wasn't spam... - TB - 12/11/2006 7:51:57 AM
  - So I see - FrankC - 12/11/2006 8:09:54 AM

New Democratic intelligence chairman gets an interview - TB - 12/9/2006 11:45:11 PM

Ken Livingstone - Tony - 7/7/2005 3:36:02 PM
- Brits are made of pretty stern stuff - Larry J - 7/7/2005 9:17:00 PM
  - re: Brits are made of pretty stern stuff - Doug Ellison - 7/8/2005 8:30:03 AM
- A less formal, but equally superb response - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2005 8:37:38 PM
- re: George Galloway - Scott Evil - 7/7/2005 4:30:54 PM
  - Who cares what Galloway says. - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2005 4:32:29 PM
    - Hopefully the voters who elected him feel a little shame right now. - Scott Evil - 7/7/2005 5:20:26 PM
- re: Ken Livingstone - Doug Ellison - 7/7/2005 3:42:54 PM
  - re: Ken Livingstone - bill king - 12/9/2006 11:23:53 PM
  - re: Ken Livingstone - bill king - 12/9/2006 11:23:50 PM
  - re: Ken Livingstone - bill king - 12/9/2006 11:23:46 PM
  - I was always a Labour supporter, yet always used to hate him. - Tony - 7/7/2005 4:02:16 PM
- re: Ken Livingstone - p - 7/7/2005 3:41:04 PM

March of Civilisation #999 - Daniel - 12/9/2006 6:02:04 PM

Jeane Kirkpatrick has died. - TB - 12/9/2006 7:30:51 AM

Accurate Iraq Observation by a traditional conservative - folcwine - 12/5/2006 10:03:44 PM
- He was, is, and will always be an isolationist idiot. (n/t) - tony - 12/6/2006 4:11:28 AM
  - Great variant on "anti-semetic", there, Tony - E.P. - 12/6/2006 2:09:52 PM
    - Buchanan is anti-semitic, he's also a bigger isolationist - tony - 12/6/2006 8:10:39 PM
      - What does Anti-Semitism have to do with the Iraq War? - folcwine - 12/8/2006 9:00:34 PM
        
        Can someone who doesnt need remedial English read my post and tell me how these folks jump to these conclusions? (n/t) - Tony - 12/9/2006 6:05:19 AM
      - If being opposed to Israel takning more Palestinian land is anti-semitic... - E.P. - 12/7/2006 7:30:16 AM
        
        2+2=143 - Tony - 12/7/2006 6:00:04 PM
        
        "Massive U.N. deployment" - TB - 12/7/2006 5:18:28 PM
        
        There's more to the charge than Pat's stand on settlements. - alcaray - 12/7/2006 4:19:38 PM
        
        Thank you - E.P. - 12/8/2006 1:10:57 AM
        
        It is correct to question those claims! - alcaray - 12/8/2006 4:37:46 PM
        
        Yes it is - E.P. - 12/8/2006 6:45:27 PM
- Yes it is - E.P. - 12/6/2006 3:18:53 AM

Republican Senator: Iraq War "May Be Criminal" - Eric - 12/9/2006 2:08:48 AM

Some comments on Jimmy Carter's new book - TB - 12/7/2006 5:01:41 AM
- and you wonder why I call you names (n/t) - azstrummer - 12/9/2006 1:50:32 AM
- Apparently you have a neutral opinion on this. - et - 12/8/2006 5:54:26 PM
- Alan Dershowitz has a good critique of Carter's pile of crap - sz - 12/8/2006 4:17:44 AM

Simple question - R.L. - 12/2/2006 12:23:53 PM
- re: Simple question - gbaikie - 12/3/2006 12:43:55 AM
- They have a chance at a better life. Before, the chance was zero. - TB - 12/2/2006 10:30:08 PM
  - Why was a Indian/French/American/South African/Russian-like revolution impossible in Iraq? - alcaray - 12/4/2006 9:08:33 PM
    - re: Why was a Indian/French/American/South African/Russian-like revolution impossible in Iraq? - REB - 12/4/2006 9:24:14 PM
      - So are you saying... - alcaray - 12/4/2006 9:37:48 PM
        
        re: So are you saying... - REB - 12/4/2006 10:01:54 PM
        
        The French faced men armed with muskets and cannons full of grape - alcaray - 12/4/2006 11:42:48 PM
        
        Good points. - REB - 12/5/2006 1:38:00 PM
        
        You keep making the same point that I already devastated. Boring. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/5/2006 6:40:56 PM
        
        You have yet to explain how you think the Iraqis could have overthrown Saddam - REB - 12/5/2006 7:07:29 PM
        
        Recap and answer - alcaray - 12/5/2006 7:48:05 PM
        
        re: Recap and answer - REB - 12/5/2006 8:15:53 PM
        
        re: Recap - TB - 12/5/2006 9:29:49 PM
        
        And it is very dangerous to believe... - alcaray - 12/5/2006 10:14:58 PM
        
        re: dangerous to believe - TB - 12/5/2006 10:40:37 PM
        
        Invasions - Raoul - 12/8/2006 8:08:55 PM
        
        I love your worldview! - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/9/2006 1:28:06 AM
        
        therefore successful invasions are impossible - alcaray - 12/8/2006 8:24:20 PM
        
        Yes, and it's reassuring! - Raoul - 12/8/2006 11:07:51 PM
        
        Seems to me a big difference - Laurie Street - 12/4/2006 10:45:33 PM
        
        Splitting into three - REB - 12/4/2006 11:02:50 PM
  - Yes, but we could have taken out Saddam with an air strike - E.P. - 12/3/2006 8:26:18 PM
    - re: Yes, but we could have taken out Saddam with an air strike - TB - 12/3/2006 10:00:04 PM
      - And who's assumption was that? - E.P. - 12/4/2006 1:29:45 AM
  - Something doesn't add up - azstrummer - 12/3/2006 3:53:11 AM
    - History - TB - 12/3/2006 4:54:54 AM
      - You said "Therefore, Saddam's rule wasn't all that bad." just to p him off, right? (n/t) - alcaray - 12/5/2006 7:02:02 PM
        
        re: Therefore - TB - 12/5/2006 9:48:45 PM
        
        re: Therefore - REB - 12/5/2006 10:27:16 PM
        
        Then you did not say it to p him off? - alcaray - 12/5/2006 10:26:51 PM
        
        What's your opinion on Darfur? (n/t) - TB - 12/5/2006 10:47:40 PM
        
        To continue in the pattern of directly answering your questions as you ignore mine... - alcaray - 12/6/2006 4:46:16 PM
        
        "solve the problem." Why the hell didn't I think of that one? - TB - 12/6/2006 6:51:24 PM
        
        This from the guy who thinks the solution to Iraq is "Do whatever it takes. Stay as long as it takes." Hah! - alcaray - 12/6/2006 10:47:58 PM
        
        Questions - TB - 12/6/2006 11:50:54 PM
        
        re: Questions - Yeti - 12/7/2006 1:25:31 AM
        
        re: Questions - TB - 12/7/2006 4:06:25 AM
      - Case In Point - ID - 12/4/2006 3:24:44 PM
      - But where did Saddam come from? - Robert - 12/3/2006 9:01:20 PM
      - Tom's history? - azstrummer - 12/3/2006 4:52:55 PM
- Simple answer - Alan G. Archer - 12/2/2006 2:49:28 PM
  - Some answers are a little too simple - Robert - 12/2/2006 6:03:20 PM
    - Where do you see Iraq in 5 years? (n/t) - RobVG - 12/3/2006 1:03:22 AM
      - re: Where do you see Iraq in 5 years? - Robert - 12/3/2006 8:40:45 PM
        
        Good post. - TB - 12/3/2006 11:22:01 PM
        
        thanks - Robert - 12/4/2006 4:57:58 AM
        
        re: thanks - TB - 12/4/2006 6:19:06 AM
  - re: Which begs for the question: what is freedom? - Raoul - 12/2/2006 5:07:47 PM
    - Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose (n/t) - Laurie Street - 12/2/2006 6:14:35 PM

Troop numbers - TB - 12/8/2006 3:17:09 AM
- re: Contractor numbers - podrock - 12/8/2006 3:46:21 AM
  - re: Contractor numbers - TB - 12/8/2006 3:41:37 PM
  - re: Contractor numbers - Laurie Street - 12/8/2006 4:31:52 AM

Where to read the Iraq Study Group report tomorrow - TB - 12/6/2006 5:29:24 AM
- HTML links to report - TB - 12/7/2006 4:50:06 AM
- Today - Robert - 12/6/2006 5:49:07 PM
  - Personal power - TB - 12/6/2006 6:42:06 PM

Baker Panel: Bush Failed - Donald - 12/7/2006 12:34:22 AM
- Meanwhile: 2,919 - Donald - 12/7/2006 12:54:57 AM
  - Commentary - Donald - 12/7/2006 2:49:51 AM

A new 24 H News Channel: France 24 in french, english and arabic - Raoul - 12/6/2006 7:41:36 PM

Dripping Bush complains about Bush being pounded too hard - 8^) - 12/6/2006 3:47:23 AM
- It was touching. I could identify. - alcaray - 12/6/2006 4:39:25 PM
- Can anyone envision Jeb in the role of POTUS? (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 12/6/2006 11:18:09 AM
  - Can anyone envision george jr as POTUS? (n/t) - R.L. - 12/6/2006 2:54:32 PM
    - Can anyone envision george sr as POTUS? - Yeti Sr. (in tears) - 12/6/2006 4:15:42 PM

Dogma update - TB - 12/6/2006 6:37:55 AM
- raises an interesting question: - alcaray - 12/6/2006 4:36:18 PM
- and Reid just promised to stop the nuclear waste storage facility (n/t) - E.P. - 12/6/2006 2:26:51 PM

Iraq Study Group: "Withdraw From Combat" - Donald - 12/6/2006 2:49:22 PM

Gates: US not winning conflict in Iraq - Donald - 12/6/2006 4:01:26 AM
- I think their criteria for winning may be flawed - SDF - 12/6/2006 2:09:39 PM
- Meanwhile: 2,907 - Donald - 12/6/2006 4:02:49 AM

Bill Roggio is in Fallujah - TB - 12/6/2006 6:15:58 AM

Iraq: Greates strategic blunder in US history? - E.P. - 12/3/2006 6:04:02 PM
- Nah. Nothing tops the Iran Hostage fiasco. - Scott Evil - 12/5/2006 6:48:29 PM
  - Ain't it funny, how time slips away... - ER - 12/6/2006 12:10:50 AM
    - I'd have to agree with you on that one. - TB - 12/6/2006 5:01:13 AM
  - by the way...That abortion led to the founding of Hezbolla. - Scott Evil - 12/5/2006 6:51:09 PM
- Maybe if your history only goes back a few years. - TB - 12/3/2006 9:57:55 PM
  - Custer at Little Bghorn:"Bring 'em on" (n/t) - E.P. - 12/4/2006 1:36:46 AM
    - re: Little Bghorn - TB - 12/4/2006 7:45:07 PM
- Yes - Donald - 12/3/2006 6:16:28 PM

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