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Tribes in Iraq - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2004 7:08:02 AM
- re: Tribes in Iraq - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/28/2004 5:04:46 PM
- Oh, scroll down for the complete article. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2004 7:09:12 AM
  - You are reading the Iraqi blogs regularly, aren't you? - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2004 7:20:36 AM

International changes - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2004 4:20:19 PM

America's "poison pills" for Iraq "democracy". Or, what does "sovereign" mean, anyway? - Bowser - 6/27/2004 2:56:06 PM
- Sovereignty will come slowly, in stages. It took more than five years to bring democracy to Japan and Germany. It will take that long in Iraq as well. It can not be rushed. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 6/27/2004 3:57:48 PM
  - For a little perspective... - Tom Brosz - 6/27/2004 9:13:33 PM
    - For a little perspective... - Check out Afghanistan. - Bowser - 6/27/2004 11:57:06 PM
      - Checking out Afghanistan... - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2004 2:13:03 AM
        
        And tell me - - - - Bowser - 6/28/2004 5:05:18 AM
        
        And your solution would have been? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2004 5:38:58 AM

Twin Summit Wins For Prez On Iraq - David F Mayer - 6/27/2004 3:53:50 PM
- whoa.....if that was a win, I would hate to see what a loss would look like....... - Publius - 6/28/2004 1:48:42 AM

Torture tied to GWB's, Cheney's, Rice's and Powell's lies. - Bowser - 6/27/2004 3:08:35 PM
- Thanks for sharing the sheep fodder - ebnelson - 6/27/2004 5:33:03 PM
- The "Torture" headlines - RobVG - 6/27/2004 4:46:01 PM
  - Why, then, did Rumsfeld refute the Geneva Convention? And then demand "results"? - Bowser - 6/27/2004 9:54:13 PM
- So the Media is still lying. - RobVG - 6/27/2004 3:41:53 PM
  - "So the Media is still lying." should be "So the Media are still lying." The word "media is the plural of the word "medium". (n/t) - DFM - 6/27/2004 3:55:48 PM
    - Yeah, you'd think we'd all have that phrase down pat by now. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/27/2004 8:48:08 PM
    - You're right. - RobVG - 6/27/2004 4:23:43 PM

What a clown - "Bush Declares End to Iraq Rift at EU Summit" - Bowser - 6/26/2004 4:49:29 PM
- The man is an embarassment - Donald - 6/26/2004 5:40:19 PM
  - re: The man is an embarassment - jr - 6/27/2004 6:44:47 PM
    - Jr. needs to grow up - Lindy - 6/27/2004 6:53:09 PM
  - I got yer embarassment - FrankC - 6/26/2004 10:27:07 PM
    - Unfortunately... - Donald - 6/27/2004 3:12:56 AM
    - What do you call a fan of Michael Moore? - ebnelson - 6/27/2004 1:45:08 AM
  - It ain't over til it's over - Lindy - 6/26/2004 9:55:20 PM

Did Ashcroft Brush-off Terror Warnings? - S - 6/26/2004 12:39:51 AM
- (Talk about a brush-off) - RobVG - 6/26/2004 1:49:16 AM
  - The elfties don't care. It is ONLY about sticking it to Bush. Facts, truth and history are nothing for them. (n/t) - ebnelson - 6/27/2004 1:32:04 PM
  - Not politics but accountibility - S - 6/26/2004 9:18:24 PM
    - We're on the same page. - RobVG - 6/26/2004 10:29:24 PM
      - From your perspective... - S - 6/26/2004 10:47:42 PM
        
        Sure. - RobVG - 6/26/2004 11:47:55 PM
        
        One thing is sure - S - 6/27/2004 12:37:31 AM
        
        So now Putin's warning about Iraq is credible? - RobVG - 6/27/2004 1:50:57 AM
        
        Interesting - S - 6/27/2004 6:11:45 PM
        
        Link - RobVG - 6/27/2004 6:41:07 PM
    - postscript - S - 6/26/2004 9:42:04 PM
  - your veering away from the question - John - 6/26/2004 12:05:36 PM
    - I agree. - RobVG - 6/26/2004 3:34:54 PM

NYT gets it wrong...NAW! - FrankC - 6/25/2004 10:38:12 PM
- What's more likely? - Bowser - 6/25/2004 11:58:38 PM
  - re: What's more likely? - SteveS - 6/26/2004 1:26:14 AM
    - That's funny. - Bowser - 6/26/2004 3:36:45 AM
      - That's what Gore said too - SteveS - 6/26/2004 4:28:04 AM
  - Slender threads - FrankC - 6/26/2004 12:45:19 AM
    - Hmmm. Let's see if I'm getting this. - Bowser - 6/26/2004 4:16:27 AM
      - Americans have been blind-sided - Lindy - 6/27/2004 4:07:51 PM
      - Incorrect - FrankC - 6/26/2004 5:04:08 AM
        
        re:As if.. - Raoul - 6/26/2004 8:55:34 AM
        
        Ah, analogy - FrankC - 6/26/2004 3:06:54 PM
        
        re: Ah, analogy - Raoul - 6/27/2004 8:55:35 AM
        
        So GWB DID say WTC was a reason to invade Iraq? - Bowser - 6/26/2004 5:23:36 AM
        
        He specifically said... - FrankC - 6/26/2004 3:35:14 PM
- Funny, I find it more disturbing that our press lies than the possibility that our president does. (n/t) - RobVG - 6/25/2004 11:11:08 PM

Top Palestinian Terroirsts Killed In Nablus - David F Mayer - 6/27/2004 3:50:04 AM

Those frisky Canadians in the news - p - 6/26/2004 9:43:14 PM

Cheney Swears at Democrat - Lindy - 6/25/2004 3:53:34 PM
- Let me be the first to vigorously second Cheney's opinion (n/t) - phil - 6/26/2004 9:32:16 PM
- Maybe the FCC will have to censor C-SPAN as well as Howard Stern - m - 6/25/2004 10:59:00 PM
- "According to Senate rules, profanity is not permitted in the chamber." - RobVG - 6/25/2004 10:14:11 PM

More WMD evidence in Iraq - REB - 6/25/2004 11:38:19 AM
- More evidence for the lefty extremists to rationalize away - ebnelson - 6/26/2004 3:19:00 AM
- Didn't we sell him the sarin in the first place? (n/t) - Lindy - 6/25/2004 3:12:38 PM
  - NO! The USA has never sold Sarin to ANYBODY. - David F Mayer - 6/25/2004 11:02:27 PM
  - He told the UN he got rid of the stuff. - REB - 6/25/2004 3:35:49 PM
    - re: And he verified himself? - Raoul - 6/25/2004 4:09:31 PM
      - He made the stuff. He should know where they are. Another good reason to kick him out of power - REB - 6/25/2004 4:19:38 PM
        
        re: Not all countries are as well organized as the US - Raoul - 6/25/2004 4:26:53 PM
        
        So I take from your answer you would not like it if the US lost some of her Nukes. - REB - 6/25/2004 4:38:57 PM
        
        re: Hypocrisy - Raoul - 6/25/2004 5:35:22 PM
        
        Saddam was the worst. He used WMD to murder. - REB - 6/25/2004 5:45:37 PM
- Give it up. You'll have better luck bringing back the dead. (n/t) - Tammy - 6/25/2004 1:25:28 PM
  - Many would like that. They don't want any more evidence to be found. - REB - 6/25/2004 3:02:23 PM
    - Well, if there were TONS of all of this......... - Lindy - 6/25/2004 3:22:32 PM
      - We have found some. Now it has to be Tons? - REB - 6/25/2004 3:40:36 PM
        
        He lied, he lied, he lied...... - Lindy - 6/25/2004 4:37:04 PM
        
        re: YES! YES! YES! - Raoul - 6/25/2004 4:15:23 PM
        
        LOL - ebnelson - 6/26/2004 6:54:43 PM
        
        re: YES! YES! YES! - REB - 6/25/2004 4:24:16 PM
        
        re: re:The UN contained Iraq after GW1 (n/t) - Raoul - 6/25/2004 4:29:21 PM
        
        That's a laugh! - Larry J - 6/25/2004 5:28:09 PM
        
        UN, Oil for Food, Saddam. Need I say more about the UN containing Iraq? - REB - 6/25/2004 4:41:10 PM
        
        re: At this point, NOTHING that has been found in Iraq can JUSTIFY Iraq being invaded under the pretext of it being a threat to the world. (n/t) - Raoul - 6/25/2004 5:40:12 PM
        
        Nice switching of topics. Donâ€™t want to talk about UN and Oil for Food? - REB - 6/25/2004 5:49:04 PM
        
        re: "We were not going to wait for him to become a danger" - Raoul - 6/25/2004 7:27:34 PM
        
        re: "We were not going to wait for him to become a danger" - REB - 6/25/2004 7:47:30 PM
        
        re:It's ok - Raoul - 6/25/2004 7:22:18 PM
        
        Hypocrisy - REB - 6/25/2004 7:40:59 PM
        
        re: Hypocrisy - Raoul - 6/25/2004 10:31:16 PM
        
        My my - Tony - 6/25/2004 9:09:40 PM

US - UK alliance starting to crack. - Bowser - 6/26/2004 5:29:21 AM

Boy with genetic mutation is super-strong. - REB - 6/25/2004 4:57:07 PM
- And he's German. LOL (n/t) - Lee - 6/25/2004 10:22:29 PM
  - Look! - Fox - 6/25/2004 11:01:02 PM
    - only possible explanation - Daniel - 6/26/2004 2:55:39 AM
    - Um ok. ;-) - Lee - 6/26/2004 2:37:42 AM
      - Genetic mutation - Buck Galaxy - 6/26/2004 4:24:17 AM
        
        Genetic mutations in sports - Lee - 6/26/2004 5:05:23 AM

Ronald Reagan says Bush and Cheney lied to the American people...... - Publius - 6/24/2004 6:14:17 PM
- Another fine example of the left's misleading headlines. - REB - 6/24/2004 8:16:16 PM
  - Heh, heh. Bush lies his a-- off, and this guy complains about a headline! - Bowser - 6/25/2004 1:37:38 AM
    - Still have not seen where President Bush has lied. - REB - 6/25/2004 12:39:47 PM
      - re:He has lied - Raoul - 6/25/2004 4:23:14 PM
        
        Where? Everything he told us is being found to be true. - REB - 6/25/2004 4:36:13 PM
        
        re:Here - Raoul - 6/25/2004 5:58:09 PM
        
        Bushlies.com? - REB - 6/25/2004 6:07:23 PM
      - Do you need another link to my Bush lie post? Or can we not and say we did? (n/t) - alcaray - 6/25/2004 4:22:52 PM
        
        Wait a minute: here's an example I haven't mentioned before... - alcaray - 6/25/2004 5:05:58 PM
        
        re: Wait a minute: here's an example I haven't mentioned before... - REB - 6/25/2004 5:34:48 PM
        
        Poor example, like all those others. - REB - 6/25/2004 5:31:33 PM
        
        Why include 9/11 content in a letter justifying invasion of Iraq? - alcaray - 6/25/2004 6:37:55 PM
        
        re: Why include 9/11 content in a letter justifying invasion of Iraq? - REB - 6/25/2004 6:48:31 PM
        
        re: Why not nuke the entire world, then? - Raoul - 6/25/2004 10:46:16 PM
        
        That doesn't make any sense (n/t) - alcaray - 6/25/2004 6:59:18 PM
        
        Its called stopping the murderer before he gets a chance to kill us. - REB - 6/25/2004 8:04:12 PM
        
        Kill us with what exactly? (n/t) - Tony - 6/25/2004 9:10:55 PM
    - Time to cal the sheriff. We have a rabid dog. - jr - 6/25/2004 2:42:11 AM
      - Time for Jr. to wake up....... - Lindy - 6/25/2004 2:49:10 AM
  - This was no headline.....it was a live interview........ (n/t) - Publius - 6/25/2004 12:06:26 AM
    - Okay, subject line, as in your post subject line. - REB - 6/25/2004 11:44:29 AM
  - Yet another conservative without a sense of humor (n/t) - alcaray - 6/24/2004 9:32:31 PM
    - I have a great sense of humor - REB - 6/25/2004 11:45:57 AM
      - If it had a humorous twist in it, of course I would be amused (n/t) - alcaray - 6/25/2004 2:58:09 PM
- Jr. has been opposed to president Reagan's views his whole life, what's new? - SteveS - 6/24/2004 7:12:00 PM
- So, when's the Michael Reagan interview? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/24/2004 7:11:07 PM
- re: Ronald Reagan says Bush and Cheney lied to the American people...... - Art Martin - 6/24/2004 6:25:57 PM

bin Laden was in touch with Iraqi intelligence agents in the mid 1990's new evidence shows. - REB - 6/25/2004 4:02:48 PM

Senate Republicans manufacture a campaign stunt to prevent Kerry from committing a campaign stunt. - alcaray - 6/23/2004 11:19:45 PM
- The one that counted - SteveS - 6/24/2004 12:30:27 AM
  - Kerry is running for the presidency - alcaray - 6/24/2004 3:20:10 PM
    - And has the Dem party locked up, so he should resign from the senate - SteveS - 6/24/2004 4:56:57 PM
      - Scared he might lose??? It is a presidential campaign, not a pickup touch football game. - alcaray - 6/24/2004 5:48:57 PM
        
        Doesn't anybody here like baseball? - SteveS - 6/24/2004 8:13:24 PM
    - Bob Dole realized that he couldn't do his job as a senator and run for president at the same time... - Larry J - 6/24/2004 4:53:15 PM
      - Dole had been around so long he wanted to be president or nothing. - Bowser - 6/25/2004 12:26:59 AM
        
        Wrong, it was statemanship and sense of duty - SteveS - 6/25/2004 12:50:01 AM
        
        Some of Dole's constituants felt betrayed by his resignation (n/t) - alcaray - 6/25/2004 3:02:57 PM
        
        And that confirms his unselfishness, something some Rep & Dem politicians lack ;-) (n/t) - SteveS - 6/25/2004 3:39:58 PM
      - Yep he did. Not sure if it's class or not. - alcaray - 6/24/2004 5:45:22 PM
        
        Bush can take his job with him - Larry J - 6/24/2004 9:58:43 PM
        
        Votes are not relevant - alcaray - 6/24/2004 11:26:53 PM
        
        Votes are the biggest part of a Senator's job - Larry J - 6/25/2004 1:43:20 PM
      - You beat me to it, didn't mean to overlap (n/t) - SteveS - 6/24/2004 4:59:13 PM
- Registration alert! - alcaray - 6/23/2004 11:26:54 PM

Majority of Americans Now Call Iraq War a Mistake - Donald - 6/25/2004 5:03:43 AM
- Most Americans indicated they trust Bush more than Kerry - REB - 6/25/2004 11:42:18 AM

Supression of free speech - a West Virginia case study - phil - 6/23/2004 1:54:23 PM
- re: Suppression of free speech - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/24/2004 9:46:40 PM
  - re: "opposition to nationalism" - Daniel L - 6/25/2004 6:18:28 AM
- Operation Tiger Claw ??? - alcaray - 6/23/2004 6:47:22 PM
- a case of preaching to the choir......... - Publius - 6/23/2004 5:49:43 PM
  - deconstructing a leftist rant - p - 6/23/2004 7:30:26 PM
    - deconstructing little "p"............ - Publius - 6/24/2004 1:48:09 AM
  - Fighting the urge to puke (n/t) - RobVG - 6/23/2004 6:13:17 PM
    - Why fight it - FrankC - 6/23/2004 6:36:12 PM
      - Why indeed?......... - Publius - 6/24/2004 6:26:36 PM
- Children of Hate and Prejudice - Lindy - 6/23/2004 4:26:30 PM
  - If I were his teacher... - Mary Anne - 6/23/2004 7:26:20 PM
    - re: If I were his teacher... - SDG - 6/23/2004 11:24:26 PM
      - Teenagers are after drama? Bear that in mind when you take what he says about his teacher as gospel. (n/t) - alcaray - 6/23/2004 11:29:58 PM
        
        Of course - SDG - 6/24/2004 2:46:56 PM
        
        You referred to her as a socialist (n/t) - alcaray - 6/24/2004 3:18:01 PM
        
        sorry about that - SDG - 6/24/2004 7:09:48 PM
        
        The kid was "referred to" as a racist. - RobVG - 6/24/2004 5:16:03 PM
        
        Thanks for the eye-opening definitions! - alcaray - 6/24/2004 5:58:42 PM
        
        Used you for a soapbox- Sorry. (n/t) - RobVG - 6/24/2004 6:17:25 PM
        
        No problem, you lovable fascist, you! (jk) (n/t) - alcaray - 6/24/2004 8:29:26 PM
        
        Guess I must be doing something 'right' :) (n/t) - RobVG - 6/24/2004 9:58:43 PM
  - That's the last straw - FrankC - 6/23/2004 4:49:07 PM

OK lets put aside politics - R.L. - 6/22/2004 9:05:04 AM
- History - Bowser - 6/22/2004 12:58:36 PM
  - re: History - Publius - 6/22/2004 5:55:49 PM
    - Again, well done. - Bowser - 6/23/2004 3:59:46 AM
      - that brings to mind.......... - Publius - 6/25/2004 12:21:46 AM
- Good topic, R.L. - REB - 6/22/2004 12:04:55 PM
  - What Price "Freedom"? - Lindy - 6/22/2004 4:31:04 PM
    - re: What Price "Freedom"? - REB - 6/22/2004 5:30:40 PM

Afghan Opium Production Soars to Record High - Success_Machine - 6/22/2004 8:46:30 AM
- Great News! It is about time that the Afghan economy start back on the way up. - David F Mayer - 6/22/2004 10:48:49 PM
  - Actually, it is addiction chemistry at work, not darwinism. - Success_Machine - 6/23/2004 11:22:18 AM
    - please don't mention............ - Publius - 6/24/2004 6:40:15 PM
      - re: Drugs aren't healthy, but whether they are natural or not is arguable - Success_Machine - 6/24/2004 9:09:56 PM
    - Of course the addicts suffer the most. They are the idiots who take the stuff. - David F Mayer - 6/24/2004 3:29:15 AM
      - re: The best thing to do is go after the grow operations - Success_Machine - 6/24/2004 6:12:18 PM
- free enterprise profits....... - Publius - 6/22/2004 6:33:12 PM
  - re: free enterprise profits....... - Success_Machine - 6/22/2004 9:35:40 PM

Beating the drums for Raptor - the pace quickens. - Bowser - 6/24/2004 4:41:47 AM
- Most likely the F-35 will be the main front line fighter of the next few decades. - David F Mayer - 6/24/2004 1:14:59 PM
  - STOVL Design - SteveS - 6/24/2004 3:26:49 PM
    - The Harrier's capacity to hover depends mostly on the total weight of the aircraft at the time. - David F Mayer - 6/24/2004 6:19:33 PM
      - The F-35 doesn't have the range or the payload to replace the F-15E - Larry J - 6/24/2004 8:35:58 PM

The Shiites stick together - Raoul - 6/24/2004 7:00:47 PM

Bush appointed the author of the "Torture is just fine if you're talking to the guy" memo to the Federal Court of Appeals. - Bowser - 6/24/2004 5:02:33 AM

Once again, Bush scoffs at Clinton, then does the same thing. - Bowser - 6/24/2004 4:30:01 AM

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