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More lies - this time to shovel money to drug companies. - Bowser - 7/7/2004 2:38:42 PM
- The reason you don't hear much about this issue... - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2004 5:36:51 PM

Paging Justin - Gary - 7/7/2004 4:10:36 PM

Ain't it great - "private prison", outside the normal chain, run by Americans in Afghanistan. - Bowser - 7/7/2004 2:47:00 PM

9/11 Commission repeats finding of no Iraq/Al Qaeda link - Donald - 7/7/2004 12:43:29 AM
- Cheney seems kind of unstable. - Bowser - 7/7/2004 1:57:49 PM
  - The man can't be trusted - Donald - 7/7/2004 2:26:11 PM

A Radio Interview with an American Colonel just back from Iraq - REB - 7/7/2004 2:14:58 PM

US military experts - "U.S. Response to Insurgency Called a Failure" - Bowser - 7/6/2004 12:58:28 PM
- Meanwhile Iraq Drops off Front PAge As US Starts Getting Serious - Mark Eby - 7/7/2004 2:24:39 AM
  - re: Meanwhile Iraq Drops off Front PAge As US Starts Getting Serious - Larry J - 7/7/2004 1:41:11 PM
  - Along those lines... - Gary - 7/7/2004 4:50:35 AM
  - Usually "failure" isn't that hard to understand. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/7/2004 4:43:53 AM
- It is interesting to note............. - Publius - 7/6/2004 7:52:43 PM
- Meanwhile: Death Count hits 867 - Donald - 7/6/2004 2:03:56 PM

Economic myths - alcaray - 7/6/2004 9:49:13 PM
- Good article. A few comments: - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2004 8:22:50 AM

Terrorists assassinate U.N. oil-for-food investigator - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2004 9:30:53 AM
- What makes you so sure it was terrorists? - RobVG - 7/7/2004 3:00:34 AM
- Boy, I really expected to get more response to that one... - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2004 11:13:16 PM
  - Did you really expect a response? What would they say? - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/6/2004 6:35:39 PM
  - At least Glenn replied (n/t) - Pete Stanley - 7/6/2004 5:11:32 AM
    - I saw that, thanks! - Tom Brosz - 7/6/2004 4:14:07 PM

I'm really concerned that Saddam may make a mockery of his trial. - Jacob Samorodin - 7/1/2004 5:01:23 PM
- It is for the presiding judge to keep the trial on track. - David F Mayer - 7/1/2004 7:18:48 PM
- re: I'm really concerned that the media may make a mockery of his trial. - Tom Brosz - 7/1/2004 5:16:12 PM
  - I'm concerned lest the trial become a mockery of justice.. - Publius - 7/2/2004 10:28:43 PM
    - Saddam stealing the scene - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2004 4:43:15 AM
      - Yeah, but........ - Publius - 7/5/2004 12:49:36 PM
        
        Words of wisdom there, Publius (n/t) - McFly - 7/6/2004 8:49:34 PM
        
        More manipulation, if not outright sabotage - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2004 4:27:29 PM
        
        IraqNow comments... - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2004 11:03:06 PM
  - And it begins... - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2004 5:00:50 AM
  - that's surrealistic - 'Saddam lite' - Daniel - 7/1/2004 9:18:20 PM
    - Watch for it. I'd bet money on it. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/1/2004 9:54:34 PM
  - Kinda like the mirror of - Tony - 7/1/2004 5:24:52 PM
    - Objectivity - Tom Brosz - 7/1/2004 8:30:16 PM
      - Wasn't to some. Was to others....... - Tony - 7/1/2004 8:52:59 PM

Sudan: handling a crisis "U.N. style." - Tom Brosz - 7/6/2004 5:27:42 AM
- I hope you weren't expecting a response to this one either. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/6/2004 7:07:03 PM
  - What can one say... - McFly - 7/6/2004 8:45:10 PM

A note from Iraq - Tom Brosz - 7/6/2004 7:51:04 PM
- another take - cartoon - Daniel L - 7/6/2004 7:58:51 PM

Female Genital Mutilation - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/6/2004 6:10:58 PM
- an extreme of what happens under a conservative rule...... - Publius - 7/6/2004 7:43:32 PM

Bush admin thinks Fidel # 1 man................. - Publius - 7/5/2004 4:01:29 PM
- Cuban cigars are well-known WMDs - Daniel L - 7/6/2004 4:38:00 AM
- Is that over the same period of time? Including old assignments? Do you have a source? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2004 4:05:48 PM
  - Found it - Lindy - 7/6/2004 12:54:56 AM
    - Since 1990? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/6/2004 3:22:23 AM

Rumsfeld Gave Go-Ahead for Abu Ghraib Tactics, Says General in Charge - Derek - 7/5/2004 2:46:08 AM
- And Israelis are alleged to be involved. - Bowser - 7/5/2004 4:46:00 AM
  - Some people I've read would blame Israel for solar flares. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2004 4:11:39 PM
    - I keep tellin' you - you read strange stuff! (n/t) - Bowser - 7/5/2004 11:34:38 PM

Euro elitist Anti-Americanism on the decline - phil - 7/5/2004 6:20:39 PM
- re: Not the same interpretation - Raoul - 7/5/2004 8:54:25 PM
- 'Hating America' - Larry J - 7/5/2004 8:18:04 PM
  - re: Studying in America - Raoul - 7/5/2004 9:07:20 PM
  - re: 'Hating America' - phil - 7/5/2004 8:58:06 PM

Whoops! I did it again! (yet another Kerry flip-flop) - phil - 7/5/2004 7:44:50 PM

Interesting view of Abu Ghreib from Europe - Bowser - 7/5/2004 1:51:52 PM

The quagmire continues - Donald - 6/27/2004 4:14:53 AM
- You desperately wish, even as you ignore everything else. good luck. (n/t) - ebnelson - 6/27/2004 1:29:56 PM
- Is Iraq a quagmire for Turkey now? Am I missing something? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/27/2004 4:44:33 AM
  - Yeah, you are. (And welcome back. :-)) - Bowser - 6/27/2004 2:47:50 PM
    - Turkey may not have had these fears if they had allowed the 4th ID to come down from the north. - RobVG - 6/27/2004 3:53:07 PM
      - Would have been the same problem. - Bowser - 6/27/2004 9:49:19 PM
        
        Not exactly. - RobVG - 7/5/2004 1:36:52 PM
        
        Maybe. - RobVG - 6/27/2004 11:31:36 PM
    - probably not a literal quagmire in the sense of...... - Publius - 6/27/2004 3:02:21 PM

Worth reading, from Iraq - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2004 8:25:59 AM
- "I wonder that if CNN had been around in 1942 we might all be speaking German and Japanese." - Bowser - 7/4/2004 6:33:58 PM
  - He's over there. You're not. - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2004 8:49:22 PM
    - That doesn't even track. - Bowser - 7/4/2004 11:55:51 PM
      - His comments on the media - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2004 1:53:17 AM
- re: Worth reading, from Iraq - gbaikie - 7/4/2004 10:53:07 AM

Of fact, fiction: Bush on 9/11 - Donald - 7/4/2004 3:05:35 PM
- Meanwhile: Another fiction emerges - Donald - 7/4/2004 3:09:19 PM
  - re: Another fiction emerges - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2004 8:45:05 PM
    - Absolutely ignores the article. - Bowser - 7/4/2004 11:50:09 PM

Another "Bush can't win" scenario - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2004 11:23:04 PM
- Costs. - Bowser - 7/4/2004 11:40:23 PM

Greece wins!!!!!!!! - Raoul - 7/4/2004 8:45:41 PM
- German Trainer Wins! ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/4/2004 9:45:54 PM

Betsy Ross and our American flag - Tammy - 7/4/2004 2:30:10 PM
- IDIOT - R.L. - 7/4/2004 7:29:43 PM

The Military: Needed: More Soldiers, More Billions - Bowser - 7/4/2004 1:24:09 PM
- It takes time to rebuild after the massive reductions in force levels in the 1990s - Larry J - 7/4/2004 5:08:39 PM
  - Except, Rumsfelds DoD - "Publicly, the Pentagon insists it's getting the manpower and money it needs for Iraq and Afghanistan." (n/t) - Bowser - 7/4/2004 5:50:45 PM

growing coalition for Iraq? - FrankC - 7/3/2004 5:18:10 PM
- The Soviets were unable to defeat them after 10 years, what makes us think WE can? (n/t) - Black Hole of Death in the Middle East - 7/4/2004 2:06:28 PM
  - Yeah that Soviet war with Iraq bled the Ruskies dry - FrankC - 7/4/2004 5:35:18 PM
- Well, sending security to Iraq is preferable to sending terrorists - m - 7/3/2004 5:26:23 PM
  - Might not be a difference - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2004 8:20:40 PM

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