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Sorry, meant BRAINS, (not brians)
Brian the Brain was a Space 1999 episode
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1/30/2006 7:55:52 PM
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I have become convinced that Bowser doesn't read posts here
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R.L.
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1/29/2006 6:54:34 AM
Oh, for God's Sake!!!
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Bowser
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1/29/2006 11:23:18 PM
not hoped..
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FrankC
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1/29/2006 7:06:42 PM
re:Sorry, but....
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Raoul
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1/29/2006 11:03:28 AM
re: re:Sorry, but....
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REB
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1/30/2006 7:09:02 PM
I've said it before...
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Scott Evil
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1/30/2006 11:16:03 PM
re: The space program
(n/t)
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Raoul
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2/1/2006 9:53:20 PM
re: Sorry Raoul.
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Scott Evil
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2/3/2006 2:40:30 AM
Yo Evil!
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Lindy
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1/30/2006 11:57:31 PM
"He hates anything that America does.........."
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Lindy
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1/30/2006 7:58:12 PM
Has he anything good to say about America?
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REB
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1/30/2006 8:10:38 PM
re: Where exactly do you imagine this is happening?
(n/t)
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Chris Vancil
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1/31/2006 9:13:55 AM
It has actually happened in Iraq.
(n/t)
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REB
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1/31/2006 3:02:37 PM
re: You must have a very different meaning to free society than most people on Earth. Iraq will soon be either a smaller Iran or a messy civil war. No Free Society made or planned there.
(n/t)
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Chris Vancil
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1/31/2006 10:42:07 PM
We shall see, Chris. We shall see.
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REB
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1/31/2006 10:50:41 PM
Yes, we will see and being an Optimist has nothing to do with the facts at play here!
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Chris Vancil
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2/1/2006 10:47:24 AM
Clan, tribes, religion
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Lindy
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2/1/2006 5:48:11 PM
How can Iraq be a "free society"?
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Lindy
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2/1/2006 12:21:15 AM
Yes.
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 12:01:15 AM
The big question is...
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/31/2006 12:33:43 AM
The mote in your eye
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Robert
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1/31/2006 4:54:03 PM
Rhetoric versus Reality
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SDAI-Tech1
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2/1/2006 1:44:16 AM
Rhetoric
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Robert
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2/1/2006 5:54:45 AM
War & Peace
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SDAI-Tech1
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2/1/2006 10:17:50 AM
They should be grateful when we invade them!
(n/t)
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alcaray
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2/1/2006 9:23:46 PM
Many are. I remember the Iraqi kissing the GI...but it's easy to...
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SDAI-Tech1
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2/2/2006 3:05:52 AM
re: War & Peace
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Lindy
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2/1/2006 5:55:56 PM
Warren Piece
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Robert
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2/1/2006 5:24:30 PM
Ideals can only be demonstrated.
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 1:18:25 PM
Get off your soapbox Tech 1
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Lindy
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1/31/2006 12:47:12 AM
If the US is now so awful..why live here?
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/31/2006 6:04:39 AM
re: If the US is now so awful..why live here?
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Lindy
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1/31/2006 4:48:16 PM
"The US is beautiful.........from sea to shining sea." - Hallelujah! ;-)
(n/t)
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SDAI-Tech1
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2/2/2006 3:21:49 AM
Are you having another ephinany SDAI-Tech?
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Lindy
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2/2/2006 4:52:07 AM
LOL! "America: Love It or Leave It"? Only one thing to say to that...
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 1:40:39 PM
Asking someone why they remain is not the same as asking them to leave. ;-)
(n/t)
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SDAI-Tech1
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2/2/2006 3:20:23 AM
Not grammatically, no.
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Mary Anne
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2/2/2006 3:20:19 PM
Gawd, are you brainwashed or what??
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Lindy
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1/31/2006 12:00:41 AM
Maybe, but then, it may be you that is brainwashed.
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REB
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1/31/2006 1:11:19 PM
re: That is exactly what colonial countries said
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Raoul
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2/2/2006 9:24:18 AM
"Spreading Freedom?"
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Lindy
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1/31/2006 4:40:59 PM
WMD
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REB
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1/31/2006 5:01:10 PM
Yes
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REB
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1/31/2006 4:51:33 PM
Save your fingers
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Sam F.
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2/1/2006 4:02:42 AM
re: Maybe, but then, it may be you that is brainwashed.
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REB
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1/31/2006 1:56:55 PM
Forgive them, Raoul, they know not what they do.
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Bowser
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1/29/2006 10:54:54 PM
The Germans were not chased out of Belgium by diplomacy.
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Tom Brosz
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1/29/2006 10:27:15 PM
re: The Germans had been the invaders
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Raoul
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1/30/2006 6:42:03 AM
Just as Iraq (Saddam) were the invaders of Kuwait. (nt)
(n/t)
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REB
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1/30/2006 7:33:19 PM
re: Exactly and Bush father did the right thing, approved by the international community
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Raoul
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1/30/2006 8:09:19 PM
So you are on record saying you supported the 1st Gulf War?
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Scott Evil
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1/30/2006 11:18:36 PM
I think Bush Sr. screwed up. He should have taken Saddam out.
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REB
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1/30/2006 8:14:03 PM
re: I think Bush Sr. screwed up. He should have taken Saddam out.
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Lindy
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1/31/2006 12:48:55 AM
You're not the only one who felt that way.
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 10:34:18 PM
9/11 was the work of Saudis. SAUDIS.
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 2:25:10 PM
I believe Raoul's point is that the Germans were no more invited into Belgium than we were invited into Iraq.
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Mary Anne
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1/30/2006 1:34:27 AM
Okay, if we're going in that direction...
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Tom Brosz
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1/30/2006 5:44:17 PM
The USSR had already entered Germany from the other direction.
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Mary Anne
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1/30/2006 6:35:37 PM
That doesn't change the issue at all.
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Tom Brosz
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1/30/2006 7:35:44 PM
If you wish to fight on the battlefield of history, you must deal with the facts as they are.
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 2:07:23 PM
Playing (only slight) DA
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Tony
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1/30/2006 9:09:40 PM
Hitler was...
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 9:27:31 PM
Can't tell if that post was wistful or not.......
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Tony
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1/31/2006 6:03:34 PM
Wistful of what?
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SDAI-Tech1
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2/1/2006 10:46:37 PM
re: Playing (only slight) DA
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REB
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1/30/2006 9:27:27 PM
"Are you sure Hitler was a threat to the rest of the world."(?)
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Robert
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1/31/2006 6:17:08 PM
re: Rockets
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Raoul
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1/30/2006 9:34:57 PM
re: Rockets
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REB
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1/30/2006 9:42:25 PM
Nuking the US - absurd
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azstrummer
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1/30/2006 11:01:34 PM
09-10-01, Terrorist bringing down the WTC buildings. Absurd!
(n/t)
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REB
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1/31/2006 1:09:03 PM
It was predicted and easy to see coming
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azstrummer
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1/31/2006 9:26:36 PM
re: It was predicted and easy to see coming
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REB
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1/31/2006 9:35:18 PM
Only absurd if your name is Condaleeza.......
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Tony
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1/31/2006 5:57:24 PM
Not absurd - predicted.
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Laurie Street
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1/31/2006 5:57:18 PM
Pre-9/11. had you told some one two Jets were going to take down the WTC buildings, they would not have believed you.
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REB
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1/31/2006 6:06:21 PM
re: In 1994
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Raoul
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1/31/2006 7:28:57 PM
Oh for Pete's sake.
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Tony
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1/31/2006 6:14:24 PM
re: Oh for Pete's sake.
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REB
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1/31/2006 6:39:25 PM
Which thread are you reading?
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Tony
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1/31/2006 8:42:19 PM
re: Which thread are you reading?
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REB
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1/31/2006 9:02:13 PM
re: Which thread are you reading?
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azstrummer
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1/31/2006 9:57:16 PM
re: Which thread are you reading?
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REB
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1/31/2006 10:15:30 PM
re: Which thread are you reading?
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azstrummer
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2/1/2006 4:57:05 PM
re: But Saddam was not left alone after 1991!
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Raoul
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1/30/2006 10:16:06 PM
Those watching him were corrupt.
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REB
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1/30/2006 10:40:03 PM
re: Those watching him were soldiers, not politicians
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Raoul
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1/31/2006 5:27:41 PM
And they did a lousy job
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REB
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1/31/2006 5:39:17 PM
Sure by 1951...maybe.
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 9:39:08 PM
Good to see you Mary Anne
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McFly
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1/30/2006 7:22:08 PM
re: The USSR had already entered Germany from the other direction.
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REB
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1/30/2006 7:21:10 PM
re: re:Because the UN is about international law and respect of sovereignty of states
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Raoul
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1/30/2006 8:13:28 PM
Maybe sovereignty should belong to the people, not any murderous dictator who seizes power?
(n/t)
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Sam F.
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1/31/2006 5:25:22 AM
Speaking of Dubya...
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Robert
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2/1/2006 10:29:34 PM
Sovereignty is sovereignty. You need to change the UN charter if you want them to prohibit right wing autocracies.us dictator who seizes power?
(n/t)
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alcaray
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1/31/2006 4:10:26 PM
Yep
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Sam F.
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2/1/2006 3:57:57 AM
Pretty dangerous tendency to mob rule these days.
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alcaray
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2/1/2006 4:48:57 PM
re: Sovereignty is sovereignty. You need to change the UN charter if you want them to prohibit right wing autocracies.us dictator who seizes power?
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REB
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1/31/2006 4:38:11 PM
And about funneling money to Saddam for "Oil for Food". LOL!
(n/t)
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 9:42:55 PM
I still do not see the difference between what Hitler did to France and what Saddam did to Kuwait
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REB
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1/30/2006 8:16:31 PM
The difference is the chance of success
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azstrummer
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1/30/2006 11:18:23 PM
Getting rid of Hitler was more costly to America than getting rid of Saddam will ever be.
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REB
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1/31/2006 1:17:35 PM
re:Geopolitics
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Raoul
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1/30/2006 8:37:21 PM
Moral equivalence is wonderful isn't it?
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 5:46:35 AM
You wouldn't know a "cock-eyed" view if it bit you
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Lindy
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1/30/2006 5:19:43 PM
is "moral equivalence" your new default sloganeering?
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Publius
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1/30/2006 2:43:11 PM
Nowhere did I say that Hitler's Germany = Bush's, um, Washington.
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Mary Anne
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1/30/2006 2:22:33 PM
We asked VERY nicely...
(n/t)
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R.L.
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1/30/2006 1:01:06 AM
Black and White
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Buck Galaxy
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1/29/2006 9:43:37 PM
Both - And v. Black and White, Either - Or", and "but".
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Bowser
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1/31/2006 4:58:58 AM
re: Both - And v. Black and White, Either - Or", and "but".
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Buck Galaxy
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2/1/2006 4:33:33 AM
As I explained - I am an American. And here's the crux.
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Bowser
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2/1/2006 6:38:22 AM
re: As I explained - I am an American. And here's the crux.
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Buck Galaxy
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2/1/2006 7:33:24 AM
Blinded by the light.
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Bowser
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2/1/2006 3:45:12 PM
Let me back up
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Buck Galaxy
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2/1/2006 4:36:58 PM
re: Black and White
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REB
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1/30/2006 7:18:13 PM
A partial answer to CE
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Bowser
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1/29/2006 9:53:37 PM
War gave you your freedom
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REB
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1/30/2006 7:25:19 PM
Courage gave us freedom.
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 1:55:36 PM
re: Courage gave us freedom.
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REB
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1/31/2006 2:11:07 PM
America, with the germ of our democratic institutions, was formed by its colonial experience.
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 2:34:02 PM
But it still took a War to get Independence from the British
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REB
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1/31/2006 4:29:06 PM
re: But it still took a War to get Independence from the British
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Laurie Street
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1/31/2006 6:02:01 PM
I doubt it would have happened had America not won her independence from Brittan.
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REB
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1/31/2006 6:13:48 PM
How did India and Australia and others get there?
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Laurie Street
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1/31/2006 8:10:58 PM
re: How did India and Australia and others get there?
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REB
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1/31/2006 9:07:32 PM
Yes, Robert, there was a Revolution...
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 5:53:55 PM
re: Yes, Robert, there was a Revolution...
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REB
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1/31/2006 6:41:51 PM
Not bad
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Buck Galaxy
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1/30/2006 5:34:30 PM
um, Buck...
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Mary Anne
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1/30/2006 5:47:10 PM
re: um, Mary Anne
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Buck Galaxy
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1/31/2006 5:14:12 AM
Intent vs. volume
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 1:32:29 PM
re: Intent vs. volume
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Buck Galaxy
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2/1/2006 1:20:45 AM
re: um, Mary Anne...
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Tom Brosz
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1/30/2006 7:31:30 PM
um, Tom.....Two can play that game
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Tony
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1/30/2006 9:16:18 PM
Are you saying everyone has a but? Shocking!
(n/t)
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 9:33:24 PM
Hey, I'm not going to knock it too much
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 9:13:01 PM
Go get some fresh air, Tech 1
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Lindy
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1/31/2006 12:05:06 AM
Well said, sir.
(n/t)
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Laurie Street
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1/30/2006 4:56:06 PM
Excellent answer
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Robert
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1/30/2006 5:16:48 AM
This deserves to be read again.
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Mary Anne
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1/30/2006 1:31:36 AM
pretty articulate for someone described as "You are an incoherent, unthinking partisan hack..".
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Publius
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1/30/2006 2:55:30 PM
The Power of Belief
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 4:36:32 AM
The Power of Hyperbole
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Mary Anne
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1/30/2006 2:26:37 PM
Criticism & dissatisfaction versus escape mechanisms
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/30/2006 9:00:04 PM
"Each individual carries their own unique cross to Calgary"
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Lindy
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1/31/2006 12:08:06 AM
No one carries a cross to Calgary. They aren't any use at the rodeo.
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Mary Anne
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1/31/2006 12:07:19 AM
Making Most of Mixed Metaphors
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/31/2006 12:19:31 AM
Thank you Bowser...........clap, clap, clap
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Lindy
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1/30/2006 1:20:14 AM
What a load of crap...
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R.L.
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1/29/2006 9:26:34 PM
re: Playing the devil's advocate
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Raoul
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1/30/2006 5:42:09 PM
clearly you are wrong.....
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Publius
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1/30/2006 3:19:36 PM
"Inclusive Left." Now THAT'S funny.
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Tom Brosz
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1/30/2006 5:54:55 PM
do you leave your brians on the mountain top every day?
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Lindy
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1/30/2006 1:21:31 AM
No, you airhead
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R.L.
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1/30/2006 1:41:23 AM
Sorry, meant BRAINS, (not brians)
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Lindy
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1/30/2006 3:07:50 AM
re: Anf he had a strange sense of humor! the logic of a machine
(n/t)
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Raoul
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1/30/2006 8:39:55 PM
Brian the Brain was a Space 1999 episode
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REB
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1/30/2006 7:55:52 PM
Doesn't have any brians, Lindy.
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Bowser
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1/30/2006 5:04:32 AM
You are insane
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R.L.
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1/30/2006 5:23:26 AM
Thanks Raoul for sharing that story
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Lindy
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1/29/2006 6:33:52 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.