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Fallujah
Tom Brosz
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10/31/2004 3:57:55 AM
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Fallujah
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Tom Brosz
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10/31/2004 3:57:55 AM
"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
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Bowser
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10/31/2004 5:24:13 AM
It may become necessary to conquer Falujah in order to save Iraq from the Ba'athists. In doing so, people are going to get killed. That is war. The stakes are high: Transition to democracy or return…
(n/t)
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David F Mayer
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10/31/2004 6:18:27 AM
Yeah, but when did "democracy" come to mean colonial deals for US firms?
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E.P. Grondine
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10/31/2004 7:43:37 AM
Why do you go to all the work?
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Tom Brosz
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10/31/2004 5:37:28 AM
A sense of fairness, justice, morality. A dislike of cruelty, killing innocents.
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Bowser
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10/31/2004 5:51:11 AM
"My cruelty will be bigger than your cruelty, and i will kill more of your innocents in revenge".............
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Lindy
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10/31/2004 4:04:38 PM
All the defining characteristics of those we are fighting. Try harder.
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Tom Brosz
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10/31/2004 5:57:03 AM
Please note. The US is OVER THERE, KILLING THEM, as the result of illegal aggression.
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Bowser
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10/31/2004 3:51:28 PM
You Definitely Just Spout The Party Line Whether It's A Lie Or Not
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Mark Eby
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10/31/2004 4:19:32 PM
The US isn't over there killing 'em? And the UN sanctioned the invasion?
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Bowser
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10/31/2004 7:22:27 PM
UN Resolution 1441, Just Keep Swimming In Ignorance
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Mark Eby
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10/31/2004 8:04:43 PM
That's not how the UN reads it, how Bush read it, how Powell read it. And not how ROW read it.
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Bowser
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10/31/2004 10:12:57 PM
Some Other Follow-up
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Mark Eby
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10/31/2004 11:02:07 PM
Read It Yourself - Then Just Keep Lieing To Stay Happy
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Mark Eby
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10/31/2004 10:43:27 PM
That is, of course, "cruelty, killing innocents, robbery, fraud, corruption, torture."
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Tom Brosz
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10/31/2004 5:59:53 AM
re: In Bowser's world American Soldiers are committing war crimes at every opportunity.
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Scott Evil
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11/1/2004 9:33:39 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.