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Major battles in Iraq - Tom Brosz - 8/6/2004 11:56:03 PM

John Kerry served in Vietnam! - phil - 8/4/2004 6:56:04 PM
- Wow... - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 5:41:02 PM
  - Actually, McCain even denounces it............ - Lindy - 8/5/2004 7:54:30 PM
  - Dole lost an arm in service, irrelevant; Kerry serves 4 months - he must be elected - phil - 8/5/2004 5:50:19 PM
    - re: Dole lost THE USE OF an arm in service, And the right want to claim the world is different after 9/11, but only as they say it is...Republicans just up and makeup lies... (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 8/6/2004 3:18:41 PM
- The truth about "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" - Robert - 8/5/2004 2:40:18 AM
  - What did the little Nazi guy say on "Laugh In"?........ - Publius - 8/5/2004 2:04:58 PM
    - I tried... - Robert - 8/6/2004 6:35:50 PM
  - By your rant stds all Geroge Soros funded info should be tainted (n/t) - p - 8/5/2004 12:27:38 PM
  - BTW... - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 3:44:08 AM
    - Sorry about the bad link - Robert - 8/5/2004 8:53:08 PM
  - Fine. I see who's paying for the website. Now, are they telling the truth or not? - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 3:02:11 AM
    - You actually need it explained? - Robert - 8/5/2004 8:38:36 PM
      - So once again... - Larry J - 8/6/2004 2:14:44 AM
        
        And again and again - Robert - 8/6/2004 5:36:21 PM
        
        re: And again and again - Tony - 8/6/2004 7:09:25 PM
        
        Swiftboat Vets claim the Boston Globe article is highly inaccurate - Larry J - 8/6/2004 7:56:54 PM
        
        Thanks for the update (n/t) - Tony - 8/6/2004 8:31:02 PM
    - They are not - Donald - 8/5/2004 3:44:31 AM
      - They are bronze star and purple heart vets.. - FrankC - 8/5/2004 6:59:24 PM
      - They say otherwise, and quite frankly, ... - Larry J - 8/5/2004 1:26:55 PM
        
        re: They say otherwise - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 4:32:59 PM
        
        Look closely at the ad - Larry J - 8/5/2004 6:11:11 PM
        
        Who were those those guys he showed up in Boston with? (n/t) - Tony - 8/5/2004 9:13:19 PM
        
        re: Who were those those guys he showed up in Boston with? - Larry J - 8/5/2004 11:54:43 PM
        
        Supposedly..... - Tony - 8/6/2004 4:28:39 AM
        
        The boats operated in teams - Larry J - 8/6/2004 1:35:42 PM
        
        Except you are missing the salient point. - Tony - 8/6/2004 3:54:41 PM
        
        Some 254 Swift Boat vets have come out against Kerry - Larry J - 8/6/2004 4:25:12 PM
        
        How many SBVets in that general area at the time? - Tony - 8/6/2004 6:00:01 PM
        
        Good questions - Larry J - 8/6/2004 9:17:58 PM
        
        Kerry's military is record up for grabs - SteveS - 8/6/2004 6:51:00 PM
        
        re: Kerry's military is record up for grabs - Tony - 8/6/2004 7:24:40 PM
        
        Rat catchers - Tom Brosz - 8/6/2004 10:36:17 PM
        
        The past - SteveS - 8/6/2004 11:47:52 PM
        
        re: Kerry's military is record up for grabs - SteveS - 8/6/2004 8:10:07 PM
        
        Something fishy... - Tom Brosz - 8/6/2004 5:42:10 AM
        
        By design - Robert - 8/6/2004 5:44:05 PM
        
        re: By design - Tom Brosz - 8/6/2004 6:26:15 PM
        
        What Tony said - Robert - 8/6/2004 7:10:54 PM
        
        re: By design - Tony - 8/6/2004 6:31:36 PM
      - 3 1/2 months in Nam...As much as Kerry talks about his exploits, I would have thought he did 3 tours... - Scott Evil - 8/5/2004 1:26:03 PM
      - Got anything to back that up? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 4:34:46 AM
- Kinda reminds one of what Bush tried to do to McCain. Pretty dirty, isn't it? - Bowser - 8/5/2004 12:28:56 AM
  - Surprise! Dogbreath is ignoring the facts, read again (n/t) - p - 8/5/2004 1:18:48 AM
    - Bigawd, I had the wrong post, pee. I apologize. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/5/2004 1:54:50 AM

Kerry, drawing on his Vietnam experience, explains his Iraq exit solution. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 3:21:41 AM
- By the way, what's Bush's? After he finds the WMDs, of course. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/5/2004 5:18:45 AM
  - Win. Even if France doesn't want us to. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 5:22:52 AM
    - Define "win" in realistic terms. I thought it meant finding WMD. - Bowser - 8/5/2004 5:56:49 AM
      - re: "win" in realistic terms. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 7:46:27 AM
        
        If Bush had found 5,000 nuclear missiles, our action of preemptively invading a nation on the basis of imminent threat would have been true. - Mary Anne - 8/5/2004 12:45:09 PM
        
        Okay, it would have been true. Then what? - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 4:20:10 PM
        
        Fascinating link (cyberussr), thanks Tom (n/t) - McFly - 8/6/2004 5:34:09 PM
        
        Some defenses are better than others - Robert - 8/5/2004 9:12:13 PM
        
        BTW, calling them "human shields" is just plain asinine. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 11:14:37 PM
        
        Speaking of asinine - Robert - 8/6/2004 5:19:40 PM
        
        So, where in Iraq would the prisoners have been absolutely safe? - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 11:09:30 PM
        
        So, how does that make it not a violation of the Geneva Conventions? - Robert - 8/6/2004 5:12:11 PM
        
        So, where in Iraq would the prisoners have been absolutely safe? - Tom Brosz - 8/6/2004 7:11:23 PM
        
        Red herring - Robert - 8/6/2004 7:43:46 PM
        
        re: Some defenses are better than others - gbaikie - 8/5/2004 9:45:26 PM
- BTW, I don't blame Kerry or his staff for this one. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 5:13:04 AM

War against Fox News taken up a notch... - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 8:58:29 AM
- re: War against Fox News taken up a notch... - McFly - 8/6/2004 6:17:05 PM
  - re: War against Fox News taken up a notch... - Tom Brosz - 8/6/2004 7:03:10 PM
- and further... - FrankC - 8/5/2004 6:40:20 PM
  - re: and further... - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 7:42:07 PM
- Outrageous and ridiculous - FrankC - 8/5/2004 3:51:19 PM
  - re: Outrageous and ridiculous - gbaikie - 8/5/2004 10:45:53 PM

Arabia Scores One More Point Against Al Qaeda - David F Mayer - 8/6/2004 3:24:53 PM

Employment figures: only 35,000 new payroll jobs. - Tom Brosz - 8/6/2004 3:24:44 PM

DNC Layers to sue TV stations for broadcasting anti-Kerry ad - phil - 8/5/2004 8:39:09 PM
- They're also threatening stations showing the Club for Growth ad - Larry J - 8/6/2004 1:57:37 AM
  - Where was the threat? (n/t) - Tony - 8/6/2004 4:24:19 AM
    - When lawyers send such letters... - Larry J - 8/6/2004 1:26:38 PM

Aksa leader: Intifada is in its death throes - David F Mayer - 8/6/2004 12:18:22 AM

Bush - still begging. - Bowser - 8/5/2004 5:54:04 AM
- UN and collapse - McFly - 8/5/2004 1:28:09 PM
  - re: UN and collapse - Bowser - 8/5/2004 6:38:45 PM
    - Some good points, Bowser, thanks (n/t) - McFly - 8/5/2004 9:34:51 PM
- So the UN failed again...What's new? - Scott Evil - 8/5/2004 1:19:25 PM
- Make up your minds. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 6:36:23 AM

PYONGYANG WATCH - David F Mayer - 8/5/2004 2:36:40 AM
- re: It's America's fault - Jimmy - 6th grader - 8/5/2004 1:36:02 PM
  - I hope that you are joking. If not, your teacher needs a new job. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 8/5/2004 6:48:42 PM
    - It's Scott (n/t) - Tony - 8/5/2004 9:12:17 PM

Extraordinary crop formation. - Derek - 8/5/2004 2:45:42 AM
- Breathtaking - Lindy - 8/5/2004 7:51:05 PM
- Does someone compensate the farmer for this? - Gary - 8/5/2004 5:33:46 AM
  - I think some farmers sell tickets. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 5:58:38 AM

Poll of veterans: Bush, 58 percent, Kerry, 35 percent. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 6:18:37 PM
- This was kind of interesting... - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 6:56:48 PM

Bill Clinton is in Toronto today. Could you, my American friends, please take him back?...PLEEEZE?? - Jacob Samorodin - 8/5/2004 5:52:19 PM
- Count your blessings. If things had gone a bit differently, he might have been a permanent resident. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 6:19:57 PM
  - I'm relieved. (lol) ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 8/5/2004 6:45:56 PM

OK!...Some of you are curious about my wind-turbine work over the past 3 working vacation weeks. - Javcob Samorodin - 8/4/2004 7:51:47 PM
- re: OK!...Some of you are curious about my wind-turbine work over the past 3 working vacation weeks. - Derek - 8/5/2004 2:36:35 AM
- Noisy? (n/t) - KN - 8/4/2004 11:17:50 PM
  - Is that you, Success-Machine? - Jacob Samorodin - 8/5/2004 5:48:40 PM
- My apologies to everyone for the typo: Bad keyboard and my fat fingers. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 8/4/2004 7:58:29 PM

Appeasement, and jihad. - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 5:34:41 AM
- The American election - Robert - 8/4/2004 5:39:54 PM
  - re: The American election - Art Martin - 8/4/2004 10:22:20 PM
    - re: The American election - Robert - 8/5/2004 12:29:54 AM
      - Tell ya what. Call Kerry when the terrorists challenge us to a chess match instead of threatening to blow us to hell. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 3:04:27 AM
        
        Tom, actually you're their only target. Your posts make it easy to track you down. lol (n/t) - Art Martin - 8/5/2004 3:22:14 PM
  - re: The American election - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 7:08:08 PM
    - re: The American election - Robert - 8/4/2004 9:58:22 PM
    - re: The American election - Raoul - 8/4/2004 9:07:44 PM
      - re: The American election - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 11:19:41 PM
  - Pleeeeze, Brer Fox, don't trow me in dat der briar patch. -- Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus Stories, Joel Chandler Harris (n/t) - David F Mayer - 8/4/2004 7:08:01 PM
- re: Misleading - Raoul - 8/4/2004 5:52:47 AM
  - C'mon Raoul - McFly - 8/4/2004 3:25:47 PM
    - re: Al Libi's alibi - Raoul - 8/4/2004 6:11:53 PM
    - re: Beliefs and chasing from the mind - Raoul - 8/4/2004 5:24:44 PM
  - So the article was about the Spanish election. Fine. Okay. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 6:02:04 AM

922 - Donald - 8/5/2004 12:38:20 PM
- Quagmire Update - Donald - 8/5/2004 3:15:50 PM

The Boss stumps for Kerry - Donald - 8/4/2004 1:03:30 PM
- Moveon.org w/ Soros money can pay out-of-work musicians - who knew? (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/4/2004 7:36:13 PM
  - Springsteen and REM are out of work? Stop the presses!!! (n/t) - Tony - 8/5/2004 2:23:23 PM

Good news from Iraq department... - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2004 5:09:18 AM
- One word; Keen - SteveS - 8/2/2004 9:13:27 PM
  - Parsing phrase-by-phrase - Robert - 8/3/2004 6:32:44 PM
    - re: Parsing phrase-by-phrase - SteveS - 8/4/2004 4:29:35 AM
      - re: Parsing phrase-by-phrase - Robert - 8/4/2004 4:42:28 PM
        
        re: Parsing phrase-by-phrase - SteveS - 8/5/2004 1:00:59 PM
- apparently they missed the part about........ - Publius - 8/2/2004 4:28:55 PM
  - I saw your story every damn place I looked. Where else did you see mine? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2004 4:37:56 PM

General Franks: 'Mission Accomplished' banner was my idea - Larry J - 8/4/2004 6:59:35 PM
- And the White House says it supplied the banner. - Bowser - 8/5/2004 1:38:06 AM
  - re: the White House says it printed the banner. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 2:58:08 AM
- Book is currently #1 on Amazon (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 7:19:38 PM
- He been booked on "60 Minutes" yet? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 7:12:05 PM
  - Was on Fresh Air today. That count? (n/t) - Tony - 8/5/2004 1:57:04 AM

Terror threat level going up - Tom Brosz - 8/1/2004 6:51:25 PM
- Create terrorists, and guess what? (n/t) - Bowser - 8/2/2004 4:47:39 AM
  - re: Create terrorists, and guess what? - McFly - 8/2/2004 1:56:54 PM
  - So who created all the terrorists before Bush was elected? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2004 5:07:23 AM
    - re: Ronald Reagen (n/t) - Dan Rather - 8/2/2004 1:29:23 PM
- My prediction... - Tom Brosz - 8/1/2004 6:58:00 PM
  - You are probably right. But my hope is that the plot is discovered in time. - David F Mayer - 8/2/2004 3:21:07 AM
    - the plot is discovered - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2004 4:04:35 AM
      - Some new information: - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2004 4:08:45 AM
        
        DEBKAfile thinks not much to this new information. - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2004 5:12:47 PM
        
        No a good situation - Larry J - 8/2/2004 4:13:45 PM
        
        They should let it leak that the CIA has developed a new quasi-torture technique (that is so sinister) that got the info from this computer geek/MURDERER - Scott Evil - 8/2/2004 4:51:32 PM
        
        Nothing could deter those fanatics. They must be hunted down and killed. That is the ONLY way. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 8/5/2004 2:39:44 AM
        
        It could be - Mary Anne - 8/2/2004 4:29:00 AM
        
        If I must say so... You are one very machiavellian librarian - Scott Evil - 8/2/2004 2:26:29 PM
        
        Your theory is as plausible as any other, as is the idea that it may all be coincidence. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2004 5:02:22 AM

Internet phones and the FBI - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 5:50:17 PM
- How could you possibly limit VOIP calls to certain servers? - Scott Evil - 8/4/2004 7:03:12 PM
  - re: How could you possibly limit VOIP calls to certain servers? - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 12:13:16 AM

No, Mr. Bush...I Expect you to Lose. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/4/2004 6:06:55 PM
- re: No, Mr. Bush...I Expect you to Lose. - Art Martin - 8/4/2004 10:01:45 PM

Here come's Bush & Kerry! - Scott Evil - 8/3/2004 2:36:34 PM
- The Bush Rally in Davenport - Scott Evil - 8/4/2004 9:35:06 PM

Do you Americans still want to deal with the Saudi royal family? The Taliban of Arabia. - Jacob Samorodin - 8/3/2004 9:03:53 PM
- Of course........... - Lindy - 8/4/2004 3:27:16 AM
  - Wondering how bad it has to get before we're allowed to drill wells in America again. - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 3:52:34 AM
    - Nice soundbite. Pity it's wrong. - Tony - 8/4/2004 2:39:58 PM
      - A useful reference. - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 5:56:57 PM
        
        re: A useful reference. - Tony - 8/4/2004 6:32:28 PM
    - Wondering how bad it has to get before we wean ourselves from fossil fuels - Buck Galaxy - 8/4/2004 4:56:43 AM
      - Speaking of Kerry's platform... - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 6:08:45 AM
      - The platform - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 5:59:59 AM
        
        See my new topic on the "Space" webpage, Tom. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 8/4/2004 7:38:19 PM
    - A paradox - why isn't more oil the answer? - Bowser - 8/4/2004 4:42:46 AM

Seized terror files years old? - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 4:38:00 AM
- Please don't forget that the 911 plot was years old as well - ebnelson - 8/3/2004 2:33:06 PM
- re: Seized terror files years old? - Bowser - 8/3/2004 12:04:48 PM
  - Yeah, Bowser. Bush set it all up in Pakistan, just so he could have an alert. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 3:57:04 PM
    - I hate it when conspiracy theorists start predicting well. - Tony - 8/3/2004 4:10:43 PM
      - re: conspiracy theorists - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 5:16:58 PM
        
        To rephrase the question.... - Robert - 8/3/2004 6:52:20 PM
        
        Maybe I can rephrase a question.... - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 7:26:38 PM
        
        Pray tell, dear sir, .... - Bowser - 8/4/2004 12:00:50 AM
        
        that's a little bizarre - McFly - 8/4/2004 4:09:40 PM
        
        They were truck bombs, car bombs, and a bomb on a boat, but I guess they don't count. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 12:52:11 AM
        
        And they had the politican impact of 9-11? Or did the damage? - Bowser - 8/4/2004 4:44:20 AM
        
        Okay, let me see if I can follow this... - Tom Brosz - 8/4/2004 6:11:06 AM
        
        Reductio ad absurdum - Robert - 8/3/2004 8:04:43 PM
        
        Nice try, but there weren't a lot of attacks by al Qaeda during the Eisenhower administration. - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 8:19:16 PM
        
        To get serious... - Robert - 8/3/2004 8:53:31 PM
        
        re: To get serious... - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 9:37:45 PM
        
        A million bucks a year? Where do I sign?? - Robert - 8/3/2004 10:15:35 PM
        
        "They just knew what they knew then." Do you really want to go there? ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 10:45:03 PM
        
        Nope - Robert - 8/3/2004 11:21:02 PM
        
        re: Nope - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 11:55:07 PM
        
        Love to hear... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/3/2004 11:25:13 PM
        
        No thanks - Robert - 8/3/2004 11:45:51 PM
        
        Isn't that our job? - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/3/2004 8:56:53 PM
        
        Whoa, that was so fast I'm not sure you're joking! (n/t) - Robert - 8/3/2004 8:59:27 PM
        
        That accounts for the spellink errors? ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/3/2004 9:02:26 PM
        
        I tot it vas ze ackzent, doilink... (n/t) - Robert - 8/3/2004 9:09:49 PM
        
        Jawohl! - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/3/2004 9:43:24 PM
        
        Danke, Herr Techniesche - Robert - 8/3/2004 10:02:17 PM
        
        re: the question - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 7:20:45 PM
        
        re: the question - Robert - 8/3/2004 8:41:20 PM
        
        Bush and the bin Laden hunt - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 10:41:34 PM
  - If the terror alerts are causing so much of a problem, then how are they helping Bush? - Scott Evil - 8/3/2004 1:25:27 PM

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