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Occupying countries where we are hated, creates terrorists. Or is that the goal?

alcaray — 6/21/2006 4:50:50 PM (archived)

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End to the Occupation - azstrummer - 6/20/2006 5:19:45 PM
- Yo ER, you weenie! - Lindy - 6/23/2006 2:00:38 AM
  - re: Yo ER, you weenie! - ER - 6/23/2006 11:13:13 AM
    - Your call - Tom Brosz - 6/23/2006 10:25:00 PM
    - re: Yo ER, you weenie! - SteveS - 6/23/2006 4:52:10 PM
      - re: Yo ER, you weenie! - ER - 6/23/2006 5:03:43 PM
        
        This is one of those things like a dog whistle... - alcaray - 6/23/2006 5:34:38 PM
        
        Self-censorship - ER - 6/23/2006 5:50:00 PM
        
        yep (n/t) - alcaray - 6/23/2006 6:26:07 PM
    - Sorry about the crude language in my subject line below. - ER - 6/23/2006 2:54:53 PM
      - Dude, you are seriously..... - Lindy - 6/23/2006 3:30:50 PM
        
        Maybe I'm just over-reacting - ER - 6/23/2006 3:41:56 PM
    - "I'm still picking out the shit from between my toes from the last time I went swimming with you guys" - Lindy - 6/23/2006 2:02:26 PM
      - re: "I'm still picking out the shit from between my toes from the last time I went swimming with you guys" - ER - 6/23/2006 2:50:36 PM
- Time to re-label - gbaikie - 6/22/2006 8:40:48 PM
  - Good point. - Tom Brosz - 6/22/2006 9:20:31 PM
    - re: Good point. - gbaikie - 6/23/2006 12:45:46 AM
      - Maybe we could make Iraq our 51st State? - Lindy - 6/23/2006 1:44:12 AM
        
        re: Maybe we could make Iraq our 51st State? - gbaikie - 6/23/2006 2:08:03 AM
        
        Mexico?? - Lindy - 6/23/2006 2:52:30 AM
        
        re: Mexico?? - gbaikie - 6/23/2006 4:50:40 AM
        
        Porous borders - Lindy - 6/23/2006 2:16:57 PM
        
        re: Porous borders - gbaikie - 6/23/2006 11:32:00 PM
        
        33% 33% 33% - Mary Anne - 6/25/2006 7:41:31 PM
        
        re: 33% 33% 33% - Publius - 6/26/2006 9:25:14 PM
        
        re: 33% 33% 33% - gbaikie - 6/26/2006 11:19:22 PM
        
        re: 33% 33% 33% - gbaikie - 6/25/2006 10:52:35 PM
        
        Language - Mary Anne - 6/25/2006 11:03:31 PM
        
        re: Language - gbaikie - 6/25/2006 11:44:59 PM
- re: End to the Occupation - SteveS - 6/21/2006 11:46:19 PM
  - It appears you have al Qaeda confused with the Taliban...... (n/t) - Publius - 6/25/2006 1:21:32 AM
    - Or, are all of them Ay-rabs alike? (n/t) - Publius - 6/25/2006 1:23:13 AM
  - Can I get fries with that? - RobVG - 6/22/2006 3:40:28 AM
    - Nuclear safeguards - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 9:41:54 PM
      - re: Nuclear safeguards - RobVG - 6/24/2006 4:48:09 PM
    - re: Supersize? - SteveS - 6/22/2006 6:08:12 AM
      - re: Absurd - Raoul - 6/22/2006 6:07:41 PM
        
        re: Absurd is the 'Oil for Food' Scandal - SteveS - 6/22/2006 10:30:46 PM
        
        re: Really? - Raoul - 6/25/2006 6:15:26 PM
        
        re: Absurd is the 'Oil for Food' Scandal - gbaikie - 6/24/2006 2:49:24 AM
      - "We had to do it" - Lindy - 6/22/2006 2:14:47 PM
        
        You need to reread the presidentâ€™s speeches prior to the war - SteveS - 6/22/2006 2:42:43 PM
        
        That would be 'speech', singular - Robert - 6/22/2006 5:21:58 PM
        
        No speeches - SteveS - 6/22/2006 9:31:47 PM
        
        Allow me... - Tom Brosz - 6/22/2006 7:51:12 PM
        
        Sure. - RobVG - 6/23/2006 2:07:42 AM
        
        Gmafb - Lindy - 6/23/2006 4:45:42 AM
        
        Like I could stop you - Robert - 6/22/2006 8:42:12 PM
        
        LOL! - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 10:16:15 PM
        
        How did you get your head stuck that far up your - Robert - 6/22/2006 10:55:26 PM
        
        "Republican pussies?" - Lindy - 6/23/2006 1:48:19 AM
        
        Mistress Coulter - Robert - 6/23/2006 3:16:41 AM
        
        Thanks... - R.L. - 6/24/2006 3:59:58 AM
        
        What a scream! - Lindy - 6/23/2006 4:35:08 AM
        
        You and Art are starting to... - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 11:12:52 PM
        
        Pssst! Hey, Techie! Psst! - Robert - 6/22/2006 11:55:33 PM
        
        Ok then! Pssst off! ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/23/2006 12:53:32 AM
        
        re: Ok then! Pssst off! ;-) - Lindy - 6/23/2006 1:50:10 AM
        
        Tom caught me in a lie? Spell it out for me so I know what you are talking about. (n/t) - alcaray - 6/22/2006 10:19:57 PM
        
        LIE...L...I...E.....LIE - You spelled it right the first time. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 10:24:59 PM
        
        fear me, do you? - alcaray - 6/22/2006 10:37:33 PM
        
        Fear you not, I. Fear be used by the dark side, always. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 10:56:09 PM
        
        You may have called me a liar. I am right to take that seriously. - alcaray - 6/23/2006 3:25:26 PM
        
        Shines not does the Sun, where hides your head. (n/t) - Robert - 6/22/2006 10:59:00 PM
        
        Yes, its 106 degrees outside. Indoors is the place to be. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 11:16:07 PM
        
        Yo Techie! - Lindy - 6/22/2006 10:19:49 PM
        
        Yo Lindy! - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 10:31:41 PM
        
        Shlock and ahhhhhh - azstrummer - 6/23/2006 8:06:30 PM
        
        I wish I had your abilities to keep track of and find things. - alcaray - 6/22/2006 8:38:49 PM
        
        At best, liberation was a secondary, if not even tertiary reason - Tony - 6/22/2006 7:55:41 PM
        
        Nice save. - Tom Brosz - 6/22/2006 8:04:22 PM
        
        Lindy's got her views, I've got mine. Try to focus.... (n/t) - Tony - 6/23/2006 2:31:03 PM
        
        I love being quoted - Lindy - 6/22/2006 10:17:40 PM
        
        You ought to review Powell's case before the UN (n/t) - alcaray - 6/22/2006 3:22:23 PM
        
        And look for... - Robert - 6/22/2006 5:28:04 PM
        
        re: And look for... - azstrummer - 6/22/2006 6:48:25 PM
        
        re: And look for... - Lindy - 6/22/2006 10:37:58 PM
        
        rock and a hard place - Robert - 6/22/2006 7:26:33 PM
        
        But you know absolutely for sure that Saddam didnâ€™t move or try to hide WMD - SteveS - 6/22/2006 10:07:56 PM
        
        We know that we have had years of frantic and fruitless searching for them. - alcaray - 6/22/2006 10:23:39 PM
        
        When did we search Syria? - SteveS - 6/22/2006 10:52:12 PM
        
        How many years will it take to convince you? (n/t) - alcaray - 6/22/2006 10:54:54 PM
        
        All I'm saying is we don't know for sure (n/t) - SteveS - 6/22/2006 11:01:04 PM
        
        You should start preparing your exit strategy. (n/t) - alcaray - 6/26/2006 8:01:11 PM
        
        remember all those truck convoys that were heading to Syria ? - Lindy - 6/23/2006 1:59:18 AM
        
        Interesting. - Tom Brosz - 6/24/2006 2:48:13 AM
        
        We may have watched the convoys - Lindy - 6/24/2006 4:34:45 AM
        
        Kadafi? - tony - 6/25/2006 3:49:20 AM
        
        re: Kadafi? - Lindy - 6/25/2006 7:05:09 PM
    - (Sorry, meant for Tech1) (n/t) - RobVG - 6/22/2006 3:41:37 AM
- Why leave? - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/21/2006 4:15:19 AM
  - Occupying countries where we are hated, creates terrorists. Or is that the goal? (n/t) - alcaray - 6/21/2006 4:50:50 PM
    - John Howard on "creating terrorists" - Tom Brosz - 6/21/2006 5:56:09 PM
      - Could you reprint the BinLaden quotes where he talks about our occupation of his holy land? (n/t) - alcaray - 6/21/2006 8:46:09 PM
        
        You mean the Fly-Over Zone support personnel in Saudi Arabia? - Tom Brosz - 6/21/2006 10:47:03 PM
        
        You chose him as your celebrity authority. You should stand by what he says, then. (n/t) - alcaray - 6/21/2006 11:18:32 PM
      - While what Howard said was true, it was irrelevant to what alcaray said. (n/t) - Tony - 6/21/2006 6:25:32 PM
        
        No, it wasn't. - Tom Brosz - 6/21/2006 7:43:28 PM
        
        "Our military actions are creating the terror problem" - Robert - 6/21/2006 9:42:51 PM
        
        And none of these would have come into Afghanistan if we weren't in Iraq? - Tom Brosz - 6/21/2006 10:53:11 PM
        
        Nope - Robert - 6/22/2006 4:31:54 AM
        
        That entire premise is false. - Tom Brosz - 6/22/2006 8:53:54 AM
        
        Is not! (n/t) - Robert - 6/22/2006 4:40:00 PM
        
        re: And none of these would have come into Afghanistan if we weren't in Iraq? - azstrummer - 6/21/2006 11:18:57 PM
        
        Try actually integrating data for a change. - Tom Brosz - 6/21/2006 11:26:28 PM
        
        You mean your interpretation of data? Yeah, right. - azstrummer - 6/21/2006 11:53:44 PM
        
        I don't have the time to keep correcting the false statements here. - Tom Brosz - 6/22/2006 9:14:22 AM
        
        Of course you do, you live for it - Lindy - 6/22/2006 2:17:04 PM
        
        Oh Yes it was - Tony - 6/21/2006 8:16:39 PM
  - re: Why leave? - azstrummer - 6/21/2006 3:16:24 PM
    - re: Why leave? - gbaikie - 6/22/2006 1:07:40 AM
    - Hate & Ignorance - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/21/2006 10:33:53 PM
      - re: Hate & Ignorance - azstrummer - 6/22/2006 12:11:46 AM
        
        Difficult choices. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 12:53:12 AM
        
        re: Difficult choices. - azstrummer - 6/22/2006 6:54:42 AM
      - Your premise is flawed in the first place....Tech1 - Lindy - 6/21/2006 11:22:32 PM
        
        The premise of personal responsibility is NOT flawed. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/22/2006 12:09:21 AM
    - re: Why leave? - Tom Brosz - 6/21/2006 4:59:55 PM
      - So labeling again Tom? - azstrummer - 6/21/2006 7:56:37 PM
        
        Of course it's political. - Tom Brosz - 6/21/2006 11:18:29 PM
        
        Politics is okay. Lies aren't. - azstrummer - 6/21/2006 11:43:32 PM
    - Now THAT was a Flame!! (n/t) - Lindy - 6/21/2006 4:40:51 PM
      - It's time. These boneheads aren't getting it. - azstrummer - 6/21/2006 8:41:37 PM
        
        Now THAT was a Flame!! - Robert - 6/21/2006 10:05:16 PM
        
        Not giving up - simply done being civil - azstrummer - 6/21/2006 11:16:03 PM
        
        re: It's time. These boneheads aren't getting it. - Lindy - 6/21/2006 9:38:54 PM
  - Why go in the first place? - Lindy - 6/21/2006 3:07:44 PM
- re: End to the Occupation - gbaikie - 6/21/2006 2:15:12 AM
  - That is almost funny (n/t) - Laurie Street - 6/21/2006 2:57:07 AM
    - No, it's just gbaikie - Lindy - 6/21/2006 4:12:57 AM
      - re: No, it's just gbaikie - gbaikie - 6/21/2006 5:08:00 AM
- I would agree - Lindy - 6/20/2006 6:32:25 PM

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