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Revisionist history of the highest order.
tony
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8/1/2006 2:19:04 AM
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You should know, and you can do, better.
This crap is beneath you.
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Tom Brosz
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7/31/2006 11:42:41 PM
Moral equivalency
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Robert
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8/1/2006 4:06:47 PM
"Civilization won't stand long when when the self-proclaimed good guys use war as an excuse to take a holiday from civilization"
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Lindy
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8/2/2006 11:01:58 PM
And our side won't last long when we're the only ones using a rule book.
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Lee
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8/2/2006 2:44:13 AM
So when you signing up Lee?
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Lindy
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8/2/2006 11:07:48 PM
Is that all it is to you, Lee, just a bunch of rules?
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Robert
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8/2/2006 2:56:46 AM
That's about it.
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Lee
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8/2/2006 3:22:30 AM
But the moral response to "you harm my family" must always be...
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alcaray
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8/2/2006 3:43:15 PM
Then you need to blame the cause, not the effect.
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Lee
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8/2/2006 7:02:23 PM
I think we were talking about targeting civilians
(n/t)
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alcaray
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8/2/2006 8:50:28 PM
Only one side in these wars is deliberately targeting civilians.
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Tom Brosz
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8/2/2006 8:53:46 PM
ala
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alcaray
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8/3/2006 2:42:17 PM
HRW report
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Tom Brosz
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8/3/2006 4:49:27 PM
Israel's abuses?
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alcaray
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8/3/2006 5:31:02 PM
re: Israel's abuses?
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Tom Brosz
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8/3/2006 6:01:45 PM
I did not know about the rocket attacks on the 12th.
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alcaray
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8/3/2006 8:48:29 PM
"Deliberately targeting civilians"
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Lindy
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8/3/2006 2:20:19 AM
You are talking about the bombing of the highways, bridges, and airports, right?
(n/t)
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alcaray
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8/2/2006 10:24:00 PM
"a long twilight struggle..."
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Robert
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8/2/2006 4:28:02 AM
"War without end"
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/2/2006 5:30:48 AM
re: "War without end"
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lindy
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8/3/2006 2:29:10 AM
"The soft nihilism of low expectations"
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 7:38:19 PM
re: "The soft nihilism of low expectations"
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 12:46:36 AM
Another article on Bizarro World morality...
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Tom Brosz
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8/2/2006 1:26:33 AM
Israel is fighting for its life
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Tom Brosz
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8/2/2006 1:07:52 AM
Israel is fighting for it's life? Howdya figger?
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Bowser
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8/2/2006 5:35:04 AM
re: Israel is fighting for it's life? Howdya figger?
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Lindy
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8/3/2006 2:35:10 AM
You know, I wish I took copious notes on what I read the way you do.
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 2:07:59 AM
Actually...
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Tom Brosz
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8/2/2006 6:18:07 AM
RightWing negotiable values
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Robert
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8/1/2006 9:04:10 PM
A thousand words
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 7:44:07 PM
Smoothly done, Robert...
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 7:03:25 PM
One for the road...
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Tom Brosz
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8/3/2006 6:07:20 PM
We *should* know better.
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 12:33:35 AM
re: We *should* know better.
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Tom Brosz
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8/2/2006 12:59:19 AM
Did I say Hezbollah should get off scotfree? No.
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 1:59:16 AM
So you'll hold Amnesty International...
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/2/2006 2:40:32 AM
Prove it.
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 3:57:30 AM
C'mon now...
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/2/2006 5:01:26 AM
are you all right?
(n/t)
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alcaray
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8/2/2006 4:53:02 PM
I see: Amnesty International is the next target.
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 5:15:02 AM
You figured it out!
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/2/2006 5:56:28 AM
Of course! And Christians are murderers.
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 12:25:14 PM
All eyes to the center ring....Mary Anne - the moral contortionist!
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/2/2006 9:43:45 PM
Excuse me... You have not proved a thing.
(n/t)
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 11:47:31 PM
PS. The expose is here.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/2/2006 11:06:09 PM
...and citing yourself is no help.
(n/t)
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 11:48:17 PM
"the people in the marches have a deep and abiding hostility to the West and its values."
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Robert
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8/1/2006 8:22:36 PM
re: "the people in the marches"
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Tom Brosz
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8/2/2006 12:38:47 AM
Ohhhhhh
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Robert
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8/2/2006 2:46:43 AM
Yeah, I noticed that after I read your response.
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Tom Brosz
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8/2/2006 6:32:36 AM
Protests in a democracy
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Robert
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8/2/2006 5:36:07 PM
another bit
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alcaray
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8/2/2006 6:28:10 PM
Nobody hears much from the moderate people in the newspapers.
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 12:49:36 AM
The right-wing reaction to the story was faster.
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alcaray
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8/1/2006 2:49:28 PM
re: Nations
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Raoul
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8/1/2006 5:41:19 AM
re: Nations
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 6:29:15 AM
re: Ecological disaster
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Raoul
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8/1/2006 7:20:07 PM
He's just being Belgian again.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/1/2006 8:12:44 AM
re: "They" is Amnesty International
(n/t)
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Raoul
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8/1/2006 4:42:21 PM
Putting faces on Amnesty International
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/1/2006 5:34:26 PM
re: In Amnesty International you have "International"
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Raoul
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8/1/2006 8:00:47 PM
That was a lot of work for nothing, wasn't it SDAI?
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 8:03:08 PM
To people like that Hezbollah is just another NGO.
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Lee
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8/2/2006 3:26:02 AM
It was worth a shot.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/1/2006 11:11:46 PM
Let's see you do a similar breakdown of Cheney and the oil interests.
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 12:54:55 AM
Proportionate difference of scale.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/2/2006 2:12:02 AM
You want to try to explain away no-bid contracts that exclued US firms as well?
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Mary Anne
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8/2/2006 4:05:04 AM
Understand Europe - not detest it.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/2/2006 5:13:37 AM
Revisionist history of the highest order.
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tony
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8/1/2006 2:19:04 AM
Back that up, if you can.
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 3:03:25 AM
i didnt even read that far down your post
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tony
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8/1/2006 3:46:12 AM
Okay, go for that, then.
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 6:25:28 AM
You're right
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Tony
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8/1/2006 1:46:34 PM
re: You're right
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 7:09:28 PM
Pssst! Hey, Tom, over here!
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Robert
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8/1/2006 9:06:59 PM
Good place to start...
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Tom Brosz
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8/1/2006 3:07:05 AM
Heh, heh. Phony point.
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Bowser
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8/1/2006 12:00:12 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.