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Swedes take up where Hitler left off... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/19/2004 10:16:51 AM
- Did I tell you about the time I spit on Hitler's car? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/19/2004 3:49:55 PM
  - "This world has enough for everyone's need, not everyone's greed." MAHATMA GANDHI. -- Wrong! The long-term carrying capacity of the planet has already been exceeded. Nothing but birth control can hel… (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/19/2004 7:37:26 PM

I just had a great idea! - Buck Galaxy - 1/19/2004 6:08:17 PM
- At least one Muslim has flown in space - Larry J - 1/19/2004 6:28:34 PM
  - I agree - Buck Galaxy - 1/19/2004 6:42:18 PM

Car Bomb Kills 20 Outside Main U.S. Base in Baghdad - Donald - 1/18/2004 1:19:05 PM
- Don, you seem to have such glee in reporting stuff like this. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/18/2004 7:05:06 PM
  - Don't be ridiculous, David - Donald - 1/18/2004 7:17:47 PM
    - Don, please answer the following question: How many persons would have been murdered by Saddam since the time of the invasion if the USA-UK had NOT invaded? (Hint: Saddam's death squads typically mur… (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/18/2004 9:46:01 PM
      - For your information, David - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2004 2:47:09 AM
      - Don't change the subject - Donald - 1/19/2004 2:08:37 AM
        
        I abjectly apologize for misinterpreting your reaction. I am sincerely sorry that I offended you. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/19/2004 5:40:42 PM
        
        Back up your claim that 'tens of thousands' of Iraqi civilians died - ebnelson - 1/19/2004 4:28:06 AM
        
        re: deaths in war - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2004 2:36:35 AM
    - Meanwhile: No blister agent in Iraq shells - Donald - 1/18/2004 7:27:22 PM
      - Still some questions - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2004 1:10:50 AM
        
        So... - Donald - 1/19/2004 1:57:14 AM

From a right wing source - FrankC - 1/16/2004 5:48:01 PM
- Kerry's komrads will make hay with this; bye Deano! (n/t) - phil - 1/16/2004 7:56:56 PM
- Well, it's not as if the Republican nominee hasn't had "issues". - Mary Anne - 1/16/2004 7:52:41 PM
  - We all got issues - FrankC - 1/16/2004 8:44:42 PM
  - Dean and his "issues." - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 8:06:56 PM
    - This is all being linked by the JFK campaign. - Scott Evil - 1/17/2004 12:39:32 AM
      - Oh, really? It looks more to me like an attempt from elsewhere to pick the ultimate opponent in November. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 1/17/2004 12:31:38 PM
        
        Who's pulling the trigger? - Tom Brosz - 1/17/2004 7:35:11 PM
        
        Shooting from the lip. - Mary Anne - 1/18/2004 1:36:15 AM
        
        BTW, Kerry's ideas on the Departments of Agriculture and Education sounded pretty damn good to me. - Tom Brosz - 1/17/2004 7:53:29 PM
        
        The Dept. of Education - Mary Anne - 1/18/2004 1:57:47 AM
        
        re: The Dept. of Education - Tom Brosz - 1/18/2004 6:01:44 AM
        
        Just as an aside (library services trivia) - Mary Anne - 1/18/2004 5:30:59 PM
        
        So tell me, how many Mexicans poured into Pennsylvania and West Virginia last year? - Tom Brosz - 1/18/2004 9:09:23 PM
        
        Are you implying that the budget crisis in California is the result of illegal aliens? (n/t) - Mary Anne - 1/18/2004 10:33:07 PM
        
        Social costs of illegals in CA, AZ, NM and TX are large factors in the budget pressures in those states. (n/t) - ebnelson - 1/19/2004 12:52:08 AM
        
        Not all of it, by any means. - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2004 12:50:42 AM
        
        Does anyone realy count how much money the US loses? - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/19/2004 1:28:59 AM
        
        Instead of "cracking down" on the people who are only reaching for the brass ring... - Mary Anne - 1/19/2004 1:15:39 PM
        
        What you say is true... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/19/2004 1:42:55 PM

A Saudi Arabian newspaper presented the "Blood Libel" as truth. - David F Mayer - 1/18/2004 3:20:22 AM
- And many Moslems wonder shy they are not respected (n/t) - ebnelson - 1/18/2004 6:16:22 PM
  - Read my post, Ed - Fox - 1/19/2004 2:53:15 AM
    - Christian lie - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2004 3:29:32 AM
    - Christians have repudiated that long ago - ebnelson - 1/19/2004 3:11:06 AM
- 900 years of the "Blood Libel" - Fox - 1/18/2004 4:29:55 PM

Mullings.com from Iraq - Tom Brosz - 1/18/2004 7:46:36 PM

http://www.praesentia.us/archives/remindus.swf - Why we went to war - 1/16/2004 8:36:14 PM
- So by modern lefty math, we have lost 150,000 Americans in Iraq today - ebnelson - 1/17/2004 2:33:04 AM
  - Your reading comprehension leaves much to be desired - Donald - 1/17/2004 1:49:35 PM
    - The sentence speaks its lie plainly, and needs no spin from you - ebnelson - 1/17/2004 9:23:23 PM
    - If it was a premeditated lie, then what was the plan for no WMD? - Justin Kelly - 1/17/2004 4:57:19 PM
      - A reply - S - 1/18/2004 6:06:09 PM
      - This whole line of argument falls into the leftist rewrite of the rationale for the war - ebnelson - 1/18/2004 1:05:01 AM
      - OK, the President launched a pre-emptive war against another country on shaky grounds. - Mary Anne - 1/17/2004 9:39:55 PM
        
        Or perhaps you would rather just respond to this. The other post was a bit long and dragged out. - Justin Kelly - 1/18/2004 2:20:09 PM
        
        The ends justifying the means. - Mary Anne - 1/18/2004 4:25:57 PM
        
        re: OK, the President launched a pre-emptive war against another country on shaky grounds. - Justin Kelly - 1/18/2004 9:14:45 AM
        
        These people tend to think tactically not strategery - Greg - 1/18/2004 10:37:17 AM
        
        Who are "these people"? - Justin Kelly - 1/18/2004 1:53:26 PM
        
        re: Who are "these people"? - Greg - 1/18/2004 4:07:36 PM
      - re:He gambled - Raoul - 1/17/2004 7:54:45 PM
      - Ah, you noticed that too? - Tom Brosz - 1/17/2004 7:20:52 PM
    - his reading comprehension is fine - Justin Kelly - 1/17/2004 4:48:32 PM
      - re: your problem - S - 1/18/2004 5:21:33 PM
      - re: his reading comprehension is fine - Donald - 1/17/2004 4:56:40 PM
        
        The only fact doncumented in this thread - ebnelson - 1/17/2004 9:25:28 PM
        
        "this fact is now documented." - Tom Brosz - 1/17/2004 7:23:20 PM
        
        What?! Thats great!! - Justin Kelly - 1/17/2004 5:06:38 PM
        
        This is a strange kind of argument, that you are happy to vote for an idiot but not a liar (n/t) - Greg - 1/18/2004 10:53:52 AM
        
        Excellent, Justin. You got Don to admit he is a liar. (n/t) - ebnelson - 1/17/2004 9:27:30 PM
        
        Excuse me but... - Donald - 1/17/2004 11:46:31 PM
        
        The issue is not if the intel was correct. The issue is now you lying. - ebnelson - 1/18/2004 1:06:59 AM
        
        I have just read this thread four times and I can't make any sense of your statement. - Mary Anne - 1/18/2004 3:02:52 AM
        
        Sense - ebnelson - 1/18/2004 4:22:25 PM
        
        re: I have just read this thread four times - Tom Brosz - 1/18/2004 5:43:17 AM
- Drives the point home - Donald - 1/17/2004 1:41:24 AM
- What a very sad but true documentary of the history of the US. One of our darkest periods. (n/t) - TiM - 1/16/2004 8:58:23 PM

NASA and Northwest Airlines violates personal customer privacy. - Nick - 1/18/2004 2:50:49 PM

Statements made by Democratic leaders about Saddam Hussein's acquisition or possession of weapons of mass destruction. - David F Mayer - 1/18/2004 2:46:43 AM

Flight recorder recovered - Raoul - 1/17/2004 7:37:17 PM
- It will be good to get that analyzed quickly (n/t) - ebnelson - 1/18/2004 1:57:17 AM

State of the Union Address - Tom Brosz - 1/17/2004 10:17:15 PM

Bush Installs Controversial Judge on Court - FrankC - 1/17/2004 5:16:43 AM

Adapting to Iraq - Tom Brosz - 1/17/2004 5:08:40 AM

Ayatollah Ali Sistani - Raoul - 1/16/2004 7:27:19 PM
- Just a small point... - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 7:58:17 PM

Yellowcake in Rotterdam Harbor May Be From Iraq - REB - 1/16/2004 2:39:05 AM
- re: Yellowcake in Rotterdam Harbor IS From Iraq - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 6:21:18 PM
- This feeling you have may be the same kind Bush gets about WMD's. Try some Pepto Bismol (n/t) - Greg - 1/16/2004 10:18:20 AM
- Meanwhile: U.S. Weapons Hunter Won't Return to Iraq - Donald - 1/16/2004 3:43:38 AM
  - And: 30,000 Shiites Protest U.S.-Backed Election Plan - Donald - 1/16/2004 3:47:29 AM
    - Meanwhile, a note from the "quagmire." - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 4:11:31 AM
    - Maybe the Iraqi Shiites would prefer their previous status as a major source of fertilizer. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 3:54:57 AM
      - The price of such arrogance... - Don - 1/16/2004 4:53:04 AM
        
        It isn't arrogance. It's a simple fact. - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 6:56:49 AM
        
        That may be but... - Donald - 1/16/2004 2:43:49 PM
        
        re: That may be but... - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 4:42:07 PM
- re: Yellowcake in Rotterdam Harbor May Be From Iraq - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 3:27:47 AM
- Yawn - Donald - 1/16/2004 3:26:35 AM

Hundreds Protest As Bush Visits MLK Tomb - Donald - 1/16/2004 4:56:29 AM
- The day Bush or any other president can go somewhere and there aren't any protesters... - Larry J - 1/16/2004 5:55:36 PM
- re: Hundreds Protest As Bush Visits MLK Tomb - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 5:26:31 AM
  - re: Hundreds Protest As Bush Visits MLK Tomb - Tony - 1/16/2004 4:54:09 PM
- Meanwhile: Dishonest Dubya - Donald - 1/16/2004 5:12:00 AM
  - ROTFLMAO - Lindy - 1/16/2004 6:07:02 AM

Statistical evidence in: at least 1 in 6 Democrats is officially a "Bush Hater." - Tom Brosz - 1/14/2004 6:42:58 PM
- But not so fast... - S - 1/14/2004 11:56:50 PM
  - re: But not so fast... - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 12:14:30 AM
    - BTW... - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 12:20:21 AM
- Reminds me of something else - Tony - 1/14/2004 8:32:58 PM
  - Except that... - S - 1/14/2004 9:54:05 PM
    - Like hell they weren't. - Tom Brosz - 1/14/2004 10:14:56 PM
      - re: Like hell they weren't. - S - 1/14/2004 11:47:53 PM
        
        Just for fun... - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 12:00:20 AM
        
        Labelling - Mary Anne - 1/15/2004 3:17:09 PM
        
        re: Labelling - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 5:54:12 PM
        
        (Clinton lied under oath. Bush inflated the intelligence on Iraq" - Lindy - 1/16/2004 6:19:06 AM
        
        "The line is not always easy to see, and although I can't think of an example off-hand, Lord knows I have probably crossed it more than once." - Tony - 1/15/2004 6:32:46 PM

Wesley Clark on Iraq in September of 2002 - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 5:17:25 PM
- Michael Moore, with perfect timing, endorses Clark. - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 3:50:42 AM
  - goron goes for dean and is already regretting it, mooreon is out for clark and will regret it soon enough. (n/t) - ebnelson - 1/16/2004 4:28:33 AM
- More... - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 5:29:58 PM
  - Transcript - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2004 4:41:43 AM

Saddam and Jihad - Raoul Lannoy - 1/15/2004 6:41:29 AM
- Maybe. Consider that war makes for strange bedfellows: FDR & Stalin - ebnelson - 1/15/2004 1:55:40 PM
  - re: I don't know anymore why your country went to war against Iraq; so many different reasons..... (n/t) - Raoul - 1/15/2004 4:55:24 PM
    - Sad to say you never did. (n/t) - ebnelson - 1/16/2004 4:10:47 AM

Gore delivering speech on global warming today - phil - 1/15/2004 2:32:49 PM
- INDEED!!! IT'S FLIPPIN' FREEEEZINN!!!... - Jacob Samorodin - 1/15/2004 4:39:24 PM
  - I heard on the news this morning... - Larry J - 1/15/2004 5:12:26 PM
    - I.m almost tempted to head to that freezer. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/15/2004 6:59:59 PM
      - What's this nonsense about it being cold? - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/15/2004 10:15:21 PM

Holy cats... - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 3:27:23 AM
- I think his unimpeachable sources ar efeeding him a load of balony. - Scott Evil - 1/15/2004 4:32:33 PM
  - "I'm sure the CIA has sources that are just as good, if not better than his sources." - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 5:35:53 PM
- unreal - phil - 1/15/2004 1:26:45 PM

Anybody notice JFK's rise in the polls in Iowa? - Scott Evil - 1/15/2004 4:46:36 PM

Disturbed & Dysfunctional - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/15/2004 1:43:36 AM
- The Israelis live in a crappy neightborhood - Gary - 1/15/2004 6:57:05 AM
- The PLO is not particularly religious. Their roots are fascist and nationalist - ebnelson - 1/15/2004 5:14:30 AM
- The PLO-operated school system emphasizes "martyrdom" as a basic curriculum subject. I am not joking. Also, hatred of Israel is another required subject. Growing up this way, what do you expect????? (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/15/2004 1:58:48 AM

Squashing the "Army War College" meme - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 12:43:24 AM
- Scraping the barrel - Tony - 1/15/2004 2:30:55 AM
  - re: Scraping the barrel - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2004 3:10:25 AM

Initial tests in Denmark show no chemical warfare material in old shells - Tom Brosz - 1/14/2004 8:04:56 PM
- Not surprised - Donald - 1/15/2004 1:48:36 AM
- This is big news - Tony - 1/14/2004 8:37:49 PM
  - re: LOL! - Raoul - 1/14/2004 10:05:19 PM

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