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Its now 722 - Donald - 4/27/2004 3:24:28 AM

There are still embedded reporters in Iraq. - Tom Brosz - 4/27/2004 3:20:49 AM

Latest CPA briefing: "high test lipstick." - Tom Brosz - 4/27/2004 3:09:07 AM

Bush death county hits 719 - Donald - 4/25/2004 3:30:28 PM
- Run home, Donnie, your momma's calling you - ebnelson - 4/25/2004 9:39:38 PM
  - Go back to the toilet, Ed........then close the lid (n/t) - Don't forget to flush yourself down - 4/27/2004 2:59:28 AM
- Military draft in the works to replace the dead. - Aaron - 4/25/2004 4:20:38 PM
  - For 700 casualties in a year? - ebnelson - 4/26/2004 2:40:46 AM
  - Not in the works - FrankC - 4/25/2004 4:47:04 PM
    - re: Not in the works - Donald - 4/25/2004 5:43:53 PM
      - A big part of the Pentagon's job is drawing up contingency plans - Larry J - 4/26/2004 2:15:19 PM
      - Playing politics with US Armed Forces lives. - Bowser - 4/25/2004 8:09:11 PM
        
        So, you are for the Draft? - FrankC - 4/25/2004 8:44:26 PM
        
        I'm saying this country is trapped, again. In sand instead of mud. - Bowser - 4/25/2004 9:40:51 PM
      - re: Not in the works - Tom Brosz - 4/25/2004 7:24:24 PM
        
        Yes it is still required, my daughter's boyfriend recently registered. (n/t) - FrankC - 4/25/2004 7:32:26 PM

Openness - Raoul - 4/24/2004 2:00:41 PM
- I hope that it brings about the end of that half-witted fool who calls himself the "Beloved Leader" of North Korea. - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 3:56:35 AM
  - He will not be overthrown - Justin Kelly - 4/26/2004 1:25:05 AM
    - East Germany - Gary - 4/26/2004 6:28:24 AM
      - Cheap tiny radios are flooding North Korea. - David F Mayer - 4/26/2004 9:59:57 PM
      - re: East Germany - Justin Kelly - 4/26/2004 10:52:33 AM
        
        re: East Germany - Gary - 4/26/2004 3:56:01 PM
        
        re: East Germany - Justin Kelly - 4/27/2004 12:41:30 AM

10 reconstruction firms have been charged with bid rigging, - Bowser - 4/26/2004 11:50:42 PM

Why the U.N. was not, and is not, the Answer. A continuing series. - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 9:36:38 PM

Powerful comments regarding the coffin photo restrictions. - Aaron - 4/26/2004 9:06:13 PM
- re: Powerful comments - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 9:29:58 PM
- While we're at it, why not have the news media break their embargo of the 9-11 videos? - Larry J - 4/26/2004 9:20:00 PM

Religion of Peace Update - phil - 4/26/2004 8:48:18 PM

Media vs. the truth - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 3:57:24 PM
- Another example - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 5:20:06 PM
- IraqNow: "Media Life in a Vacuum Tube" - Larry J - 4/26/2004 5:04:32 PM
- Media vs. conservative preconceptions. - Bowser - 4/26/2004 4:40:40 PM
  - re: Media vs. conservative preconceptions. - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 5:05:33 PM
    - Reliable? - Bowser - 4/26/2004 5:21:34 PM
  - Right - FrankC - 4/26/2004 4:52:27 PM
    - Look at the joy in those faces, indeed! - Bowser - 4/26/2004 5:15:29 PM
      - You got the red x didn't you - FrankC - 4/26/2004 5:29:24 PM
        
        Let me give it a shot. - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 8:34:11 PM
- So true - FrankC - 4/26/2004 4:21:16 PM
- Instapundit has a long discussion on the media - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 4:05:29 PM

Whose going to knock out those Iranian nuclear-reactors, first? Israel, or the USA? - Jacob Samorodin - 4/26/2004 7:16:49 PM

Marines go for "careful" approach at Fallujah - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 3:27:15 PM
- The bad guys seem to have the initiative - Gary - 4/26/2004 4:12:31 PM

Prisoner claims that his is NOT Saddam Hussein, but his twin brother. - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 4:24:32 AM
- Hey!!! Weekly World News got it right!!! ;-) And Saddam's gay lover really is Osama. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 4/26/2004 3:13:10 PM
- re: Once again, Rumsfeld hits the mark . . . - D. Spires - 4/26/2004 1:57:32 PM

Bush death count hits 715 - Donald - 4/24/2004 12:28:41 PM
- Donnie, your attorney is on line 2 - ebnelson - 4/26/2004 2:43:27 AM
- re: Bush death count hits 715 - Tom Brosz - 4/24/2004 7:16:13 PM
  - Exactly. - Bowser - 4/24/2004 10:00:15 PM
    - the big deal about spending Iraqi money on Iraqi cities? - FrankC - 4/25/2004 12:44:24 AM
      - re: the big deal - Tom Brosz - 4/25/2004 2:35:46 AM
        
        Slowly, every so slowly the expectations shift, and suddenly - - - - Bowser - 4/25/2004 3:16:49 AM
        
        You haven't really been paying attention - Tom Brosz - 4/25/2004 10:19:18 PM
        
        10 to 20 years, now. OK. Where did I miss it? - Bowser - 4/25/2004 11:24:00 PM
        
        OK. Where did I miss it? - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 5:04:50 AM
        
        re: 10 to 20 years? - FrankC - 4/26/2004 12:04:55 AM
        
        Dollars and sense. - RobVG - 4/25/2004 6:39:21 PM
        
        My, my. Aren't the Iraqis lucky for GWB & Co. - Bowser - 4/25/2004 7:54:02 PM
        
        re: My, my. - RobVG - 4/25/2004 9:14:18 PM
      - Not so fast there, Parnelli!! - Bowser - 4/25/2004 2:34:04 AM
        
        My mistake.. - FrankC - 4/25/2004 3:53:36 AM

Blix: The invasion of Iraq were similar to â€œthe witch-hunts of past centuries" - Aaron - 4/26/2004 2:41:36 AM

GWB to democracy which wants to stay free - Go screw yourselves! - Bowser - 4/23/2004 2:33:08 AM
- We outta just give them Nuclear Weapons (n/t) - Justin Kelly - 4/26/2004 12:56:08 AM
- re: GWB to democracy which wants to stay free - Go screw yourselves! - gbaikie - 4/23/2004 7:05:39 PM
  - Just in case that wasn't a jest. - Bowser - 4/23/2004 9:33:22 PM
    - re: Just in case that wasn't a jest. - gbaikie - 4/24/2004 2:07:00 AM
      - re: Just in case that wasn't a jest. - Bowser - 4/24/2004 3:16:20 PM
        
        re: Just in case that wasn't a jest. - gbaikie - 4/25/2004 12:59:49 AM
        
        Gave you an honest answer - FrankC - 4/25/2004 3:36:14 AM
      - Looks interesting. I'll have time to read it closely in a bit. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/24/2004 2:22:07 AM
- So maybe it should say "Drop Dead!" You get the idea. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/23/2004 3:31:26 AM
  - "Beijing crushes a student group" - Bowser - 4/23/2004 3:26:18 PM

Nice sentiments from Indymedia - FrankC - 4/25/2004 1:18:33 AM
- Why not create your own board? - Bowser - 4/25/2004 7:44:51 PM
  - Would it have bothered you - FrankC - 4/25/2004 8:34:59 PM
    - Frankly, I just think it's pathetic. - Bowser - 4/25/2004 11:28:43 PM
      - pathetic. - FrankC - 4/26/2004 12:35:41 AM
- Please don't think everyone who drinks the water here in Portland shares this a$$#ole's opinions - Buck Galaxy - 4/25/2004 5:09:06 AM

New leader of Iraq - gbaikie - 4/25/2004 10:31:00 PM

Losing the edge - Raoul - 4/24/2004 10:05:24 AM
- re: Losing the edge - gbaikie - 4/24/2004 11:15:20 AM
  - re: Losing the edge - Raoul - 4/24/2004 5:53:53 PM
    - Afraid they're right. - Bowser - 4/25/2004 2:19:57 PM
      - re: Afraid they're right. - gbaikie - 4/25/2004 8:41:54 PM
        
        Oops - gbaikie - 4/25/2004 9:11:52 PM

World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronologies: 1970 - 2003 - jms - 4/25/2004 4:33:29 AM
- Here's one indexed to inflation - Larry J - 4/25/2004 4:48:22 PM
  - Thanks Larry J., that's what I was looking for. - jms - 4/25/2004 5:16:19 PM

Given the Arab tradition of only two political systems: Tyranny and Chaos, should we not pull out of Iraq and let them enjoy themselves. - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 6:28:37 AM
- Iraqis want to destroy the economic gain of the last year. - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 1:20:51 PM
  - Where does it say that? - Bowser - 4/25/2004 2:51:24 PM
    - re: Where does it say that? - FrankC - 4/25/2004 4:13:14 PM
- re: Morocco? - Raoul - 4/25/2004 12:09:30 PM
  - In answer to: "what government will replace Saddam's regime?" - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 12:58:10 PM
- A news article that supports my views expressed above. - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 6:32:20 AM

This explains a lot - "Americans believe Saddam terror link" - Bowser - 4/24/2004 11:57:26 PM
- It is quite probable that Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were working together. - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 3:54:43 AM
  - Big difference between evidence, hearsay and wishful thinking. - Bowser - 4/25/2004 2:09:23 PM
- re: Manipulation - Raoul - 4/25/2004 12:17:47 AM
  - Interesting. And the reference to Joseph McCarthy was precocious. - Bowser - 4/25/2004 3:27:01 AM

N. Korea Accuses U.S. of Preparing Attack - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 1:10:21 PM

West Bank Funeral Directors Bid on Contract for Arafat's Funeral - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 4:45:54 AM

Fidel Castro was the victim of a prank telephone call. - David F Mayer - 4/25/2004 3:48:16 AM

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