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U.S. asks U.N. to do something about Iranian nukes - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2003 5:06:55 AM
- Thank god - Davin L. - 9/8/2003 4:20:01 AM

Abbas resigns - Raoul - 9/6/2003 10:58:11 AM
- re: Abbas resigns - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2003 5:13:59 PM
  - Neither did Israel... - alcaray - 9/7/2003 4:10:39 PM
    - Yeah They Should Have Just Let All Those Suicide Attacks Continue Like Good Little Lambs (n/t) - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 6:08:38 PM
  - re: Zionism's fate - Raoul - 9/6/2003 8:29:45 PM
    - At the point of the gun? - ebnelson - 9/7/2003 8:14:47 PM
    - re: Zionism's fate - Raoul - 9/6/2003 8:31:56 PM
      - re: Zionism's fate - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2003 2:59:39 AM
        
        re: Zionism's fate - Raoul - 9/7/2003 8:36:48 AM
      - That Is The Most One Sided Piece Of Crap I've Read In A Long Time - Mark Eby - 9/6/2003 9:51:42 PM
        
        Irrelevant - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 12:07:04 AM
        
        In case you missed it... - Mary Anne - 9/7/2003 2:36:21 AM
        
        The Appropriate Term Is Murder Enablers - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 4:22:38 AM
        
        Using the term "protection" for dropping bombs on people is also ridiculous - Mary Anne - 9/7/2003 4:39:39 AM
        
        Understanding - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2003 5:37:51 AM
        
        re: Understanding - Raoul - 9/7/2003 8:50:10 AM
        
        Again The Difference Is Obvious - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 3:38:08 PM
        
        Death to the fruitgrowers! - Mary Anne - 9/7/2003 4:56:39 PM
        
        The Issue Ws Dealt With Long Ago - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 6:05:42 PM
        
        Why don't we just appoint you ambassador-at-large to the Middle East? - Mary Anne - 9/7/2003 7:36:10 PM
        
        Because I'm Not Diplomatic - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 8:07:12 PM
        
        You Keep Ignoring The Historical Context of GW1 & UN Resolutions Authorizing Force - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 5:06:05 AM
        
        re: Double standards - Raoul - 9/7/2003 9:18:19 AM
        
        The Differences Are Obvious - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 3:31:54 PM
        
        re: The Differences Are Obvious - Raoul - 9/7/2003 5:17:24 PM
        
        PS You Avoided The Evidence Of Chirac's Dishonesty Again (n/t) - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 8:50:52 PM
        
        re:I have no clue at all in what matter he was dishonest (n/t) - Raoul - 9/7/2003 10:07:58 PM
        
        I'm Real Glad You Feel Vindicated - Mark Eby - 9/7/2003 7:53:56 PM
        
        re: Unfortunately... - Raoul - 9/6/2003 10:55:04 PM

Errors May Have Inflated Iraq Arms Claims - Don - 9/7/2003 9:49:22 PM
- Meanwhile: Iraq Cleric's Death Seen As Costing U.S. - Don - 9/7/2003 10:01:21 PM

Democrats Split on Pushing the Personal or the Political . . . - D. Spires - 9/7/2003 6:47:17 PM

Kim and Justine are absolutely FANTASTIC!!!!! - Raoul - 9/6/2003 5:18:38 AM
- re: Kim and Justine - Raoul - 9/6/2003 4:40:15 PM
  - re: and it's Justine! - Raoul - 9/7/2003 6:37:39 AM

Rumsfeld and others on progress in Iraq - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2003 6:11:49 AM
- A Marine talks about his experiences - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2003 6:16:32 AM
  - No U.S. aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2003 6:21:32 AM
    - Thought I'd try a "Don-style" cascade. ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2003 6:25:09 AM
      - Made Me Feel Better - Mark Eby - 9/6/2003 10:07:50 PM
        
        Here's one more for the road... - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2003 6:17:27 AM
        
        re: Made Me Feel Better - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2003 3:26:04 AM

War in Iraq: The preparations - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2003 5:54:14 AM

Search for Iraq Weapons Proves Elusive - Don - 9/6/2003 5:44:43 PM

Al Quaeda's agenda - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 2:30:32 AM
- Yeah But Lindy Stil Thinks It's About Oil - Mark Eby - 9/6/2003 5:11:49 AM
  - re: Yeah But Lindy Stil Thinks It's About Oil - Lindy - 9/6/2003 6:28:35 AM
    - The Iraqis Don't Agree With You & We Knew That Going In - Mark Eby - 9/6/2003 5:24:21 PM
- re: Al Quaeda's agenda - LJ - 9/5/2003 3:27:52 PM
  - Gotta admire the right-wing crazies' ability to come up with cool logos (n/t) - alcaray - 9/5/2003 10:51:13 PM
  - Doesn't work - FrankC - 9/5/2003 4:48:02 PM
    - To be fair... - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 9:15:33 PM
      - Yes - FrankC - 9/5/2003 9:49:50 PM
- re: Al Quaeda's agenda - gbaikie - 9/5/2003 3:59:01 AM

Former US Commander Blasts Bush - Lindy - 9/6/2003 5:46:53 AM

Bush economy loses another 93,000 jobs - Don - 9/5/2003 10:57:51 PM
- Still Waiting On Those Dividend Cuts To Kick In As Predicted (n/t) - Mark Eby - 9/6/2003 4:50:43 AM

GOP MIA? - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2003 4:49:17 PM
- An addendum to your commentary - Tony - 9/4/2003 7:50:25 PM
  - re: An addendum to your commentary - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2003 8:23:25 PM
    - So your answer is no? - Tony - 9/5/2003 2:01:23 AM
      - re: So your answer is no? - gbaikie - 9/5/2003 5:56:09 AM
        
        Ummm - Tony - 9/5/2003 2:45:24 PM
        
        re: Ummm - gbaikie - 9/6/2003 3:11:31 AM

Joshua Marshall: Realism, neo-realism, neo-conservatism - Greg - 9/6/2003 2:46:28 AM

politicising 9/11 - Greg - 9/6/2003 2:25:58 AM

Bush's Folly - Robert - 9/5/2003 10:34:50 PM
- (technical post; ignore) - Robert - 9/5/2003 10:45:05 PM

Turtles Lured to Disco Death in Greece . . . - D. Spires - 9/5/2003 8:18:04 PM

Teen Killed in Ambush by Father . . . - D. Spires - 9/5/2003 8:03:52 PM

U.S. Says Saddam Likely Hiding in Tikrit . . . - D. Spires - 9/5/2003 7:49:43 PM

Republican party and comparative advantage.... - Publius - 9/4/2003 10:23:21 PM
- re: Republican party and comparative advantage.... - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2003 11:39:02 PM
  - ahh...lezze now,,,,. - Publius - 9/5/2003 1:29:55 AM
    - Trade problems - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 2:26:39 AM
  - almost every economic indicator except employment is shooting upwards - LJ - 9/4/2003 11:41:27 PM
    - The new unemployment figures will be released today... - Scott Evil - 9/5/2003 1:08:22 PM
      - New figures on unemployment: - Scott Evil - 9/5/2003 1:38:14 PM
        
        discouraged workers - FrankC - 9/5/2003 2:57:36 PM
        
        re: discouraged workers - Scott Evil - 9/5/2003 3:06:34 PM
        
        unfortunately I think you forgot category c) - Tony - 9/5/2003 7:23:03 PM
- Hey Publius, where ya been? welcome back (n/t) - LJ - 9/4/2003 11:36:22 PM
- re: Republican party and comparative advantage.... - Scott Evil - 9/4/2003 11:12:06 PM

Nearly half a year gone by since the start of the Iraq War - Davin L. - 9/4/2003 5:31:24 PM
- Were any of these topics taken up by the D-Party Presidential hopefuls in their last debate? - Scott Evil - 9/4/2003 10:06:04 PM
- re: Four months since we ended major combat. - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2003 8:17:32 PM
  - re: Four months since we ended major combat. - LJ - 9/4/2003 11:27:50 PM
    - Hidden weapons - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 12:00:24 AM
    - more on jets - LJ - 9/4/2003 11:33:08 PM
    - Erratum - apparently there were several jets (n/t) - LJ - 9/4/2003 11:30:18 PM
      - Oops...sorry - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 12:04:58 AM
- Is this your weekly or monthly update? - RobVG - 9/4/2003 7:57:49 PM
  - Would you prefer a daily count? - Davin L. - 9/4/2003 9:22:03 PM
    - No, Don's got that covered. - RobVG - 9/5/2003 12:28:28 AM
      - Then take my monthly in stride - Davin L. - 9/5/2003 3:12:45 AM
        
        I Wouldn't miss a step. - RobVG - 9/5/2003 3:58:18 AM

Italian prime minister likes "World Policeman" idea - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 2:53:24 AM

Case Study On How To Fudge Data To Handwave Away GW - Mark Eby - 8/29/2003 3:03:48 PM
- re: Case Study - Fox - 8/29/2003 7:55:19 PM
- re: Case Study - Tom Brosz - 8/29/2003 5:01:20 PM
  - The Bias Is Not In SciAm - Mark Eby - 8/30/2003 6:58:15 PM
  - What is interesting - ebnelson - 8/30/2003 12:49:16 PM
    - And Of Course Little Things Like Bad Data Mean Nothing To The Right? N/T (n/t) - Mark Eby - 8/30/2003 7:01:25 PM
      - At least as much as it does to the left. n/t (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/1/2003 2:09:58 PM
  - re: Case Study - gbaikie - 8/29/2003 7:09:41 PM
    - That's Because You Haven't Looked - Mark Eby - 8/30/2003 7:19:49 PM
      - Have you looked at this data? - skeptical - 8/31/2003 8:52:58 AM
        
        Mine Yes, Yours No - Mark Eby - 8/31/2003 3:14:08 PM
      - re: That's Because You Haven't Looked - gbaikie - 8/31/2003 8:39:29 AM
        
        Never Said There Weren't Environmentalist Nutcases - Mark Eby - 8/31/2003 3:45:57 PM
        
        re: Never Said There Weren't Environmentalist Nutcases - gbaikie - 9/2/2003 1:37:37 AM
        
        I'm Betting You Still Haven't Looked At The Data - Mark Eby - 9/3/2003 7:49:25 PM
        
        re: I'm Betting You Still Haven't Looked At The Data - gbaikie - 9/4/2003 12:22:52 AM
        
        It's Not Guesswork - Mark Eby - 9/4/2003 1:05:08 PM
        
        re: It's Not Guesswork - gbaikie - 9/4/2003 11:15:17 PM
        
        Venus is already cloud covered by the way NT (n/t) - Duster - 9/5/2003 12:47:23 AM
        
        What's it's albedo? (n/t) - gbaikie - 9/5/2003 1:37:14 AM
        
        Hey Dufus - Buster - 9/5/2003 12:44:57 AM
        
        re: Hey Dufus - gbaikie - 9/5/2003 1:46:06 AM
        
        Naw the gap would just be too big then (n/t) - Buster - 9/5/2003 1:52:19 AM
        
        Access - Mary Anne - 9/1/2003 2:43:52 PM
        
        Thank's But Please Explain - Mark Eby - 9/1/2003 5:02:12 PM
        
        re: Thank's But Please Explain - Mary Anne - 9/1/2003 11:13:06 PM
        
        Fantastic! - Mark Eby - 9/1/2003 11:56:33 PM
        
        Acrobat tools - Tom Brosz - 9/2/2003 6:58:29 AM
        
        Thanks Also!!! (n/t) - Mark Eby - 9/4/2003 1:12:22 PM

Status of Iraqi medical system - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 12:10:32 AM

Rebuilding Iraq a costly American burden - Don - 9/4/2003 1:23:24 PM
- re: a few points - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2003 11:17:44 PM
- re: Rebuilding Iraq a costly American burden - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2003 10:02:51 PM
- re: Rebuilding Iraq a costly American burden - Roulke Boulreke - 9/4/2003 4:24:21 PM
  - re: sorry, it's me (n/t) - Raoul - 9/4/2003 4:44:17 PM
- Meanwhile: Bush to seek $60 billion for Iraq - Don - 9/4/2003 1:27:55 PM
  - AP: U.S. Warns of Looming Threats in Iraq - Don - 9/4/2003 1:34:33 PM

Exploring a parallel universe - Tom Brosz - 9/1/2003 4:46:16 PM
- Same War Plan, Competant Follow-up Planning Starting At The Same point As The War Plan - Mark Eby - 9/3/2003 8:07:31 PM
- Yeah, that's what I thought. - Tom Brosz - 9/2/2003 3:17:53 PM
  - Once more into the breach - Robert - 9/2/2003 11:21:51 PM
    - re: Once more into the breach - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2003 6:44:52 AM
      - 'The Trousers of Time' - Robert - 9/3/2003 7:15:36 PM
        
        What can Tom and I do - Tony - 9/4/2003 7:59:37 PM
        
        re: 'The Trousers of Time' - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2003 12:19:18 AM
        
        re: 'The Trousers of Time' - Robert - 9/4/2003 3:42:08 PM
    - re: Once more into the breach - gbaikie - 9/3/2003 5:44:43 AM
  - Yeah, hold on there sparky - Davin L. - 9/2/2003 4:59:10 PM
    - re: Yeah, hold on there sparky - Tom Brosz - 9/2/2003 5:26:49 PM
      - I said nothing of the sort - Davin L. - 9/2/2003 6:46:49 PM
        
        Saddam in a box? - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2003 3:00:10 AM
        
        Tom: You are getting long on words, short on content here. - Davin L. - 9/3/2003 8:47:53 PM
        
        re: Tom: You are getting long on words, short on content here. - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2003 12:04:36 AM
        
        A complete mis-characterization of what I said. - Davin L. - 9/4/2003 1:10:54 AM
        
        A small point - LJ - 9/3/2003 4:06:00 AM
        
        Don't get me started on Vietnam... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/3/2003 6:47:56 AM
        
        re: I said nothing of the sort - gbaikie - 9/2/2003 9:05:36 PM
  - Excuse me, I have a life. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2003 4:16:50 PM
    - re: Excuse me, I have a life. - Tom Brosz - 9/2/2003 4:25:33 PM
      - re: Radical isolationism - Fox - 9/3/2003 3:15:35 AM
        
        re: Radical isolationism - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2003 4:35:41 AM
      - re: Excuse me, I have a life. - gbaikie - 9/2/2003 9:00:06 PM
        
        re: I have a life. - Raoul - 9/2/2003 9:47:16 PM
        
        re: I have a life. - gbaikie - 9/3/2003 12:32:11 AM
- All in all, Bush has done a good job fighting terrorism - Matt Burley - 9/1/2003 7:39:34 PM
- re: suggestions - Raoul - 9/1/2003 6:42:43 PM
- Too easy Tom - FrankC - 9/1/2003 5:50:56 PM

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