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Make 'em swim home.
Feed 'em PEANUT BUTTER Crackers
carl
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1/23/2009 5:27:44 PM
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Hey, at least it ain't inhuman
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Anyone have any ideas on what to do with terror suspects
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Jody
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1/23/2009 4:09:03 AM
Give them all quick trials. Shoot the guilty and release the rest.
(n/t)
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David F Mayer
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1/27/2009 1:36:56 AM
What to do...
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mip
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1/24/2009 2:04:06 AM
You sound like Lee....
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Lindy
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1/25/2009 3:31:04 PM
Let's send them to Lindy's house.
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Lee
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1/25/2009 3:54:12 PM
Calm down Lee
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Lindy
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1/25/2009 4:33:32 PM
re: Calm down Lee
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ella
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1/30/2009 2:32:35 PM
That's some nice backpeddling, Lindy.
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Lee
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1/25/2009 5:58:46 PM
What separates the men
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Lindy
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1/26/2009 12:07:56 AM
Send them to Re-hab
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carl
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1/24/2009 6:14:24 PM
Rather than rehab...
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Eri
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1/24/2009 8:44:15 PM
re: Anyone have any ideas on what to do with terror suspects
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/23/2009 10:42:54 PM
Try them as war criminals if that might stick, otherwise treat them as POWs in a US base - or send them home.
(n/t)
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Laurie Street
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1/23/2009 6:45:19 PM
I was not being glib...what *are* the alternatives?
(n/t)
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Jody
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1/23/2009 5:40:01 PM
And I wasn't being flippant.
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RobVG
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1/24/2009 2:37:33 AM
Well, as long as we're planting chipsl....
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Eri
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1/24/2009 5:02:07 AM
That's just diabolical. I like it.
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RobVG
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1/24/2009 5:17:11 AM
I think you're simply asking the wrong people
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McFly
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1/23/2009 6:28:03 PM
oh...
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Jody
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1/23/2009 8:18:35 PM
But there *are* alternatives
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McFly
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1/24/2009 2:38:02 AM
I might try to pen a Canada Goose Brief
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Eri
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1/24/2009 5:04:38 AM
LOL!
(n/t)
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McFly
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1/26/2009 3:14:32 AM
"Obama knows. Don't doubt."
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TB
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1/23/2009 6:52:33 PM
Who are you quoting?
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McFly
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1/24/2009 2:04:38 AM
Even Obama doesn’t know
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SteveS
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1/23/2009 7:31:37 PM
re: Even Obama doesn’t know
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Lindy
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1/25/2009 4:43:17 PM
They've got nothing.
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TB
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1/23/2009 5:48:14 PM
Why, only today I saw that Victor Hanson
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Tony
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1/23/2009 8:14:32 PM
They've got torture victims. That complicates everything.
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Mary Anne
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1/23/2009 8:09:03 PM
Yeah, that's it.
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TB
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1/23/2009 8:37:31 PM
If they are guilty as you point out, then why are they being let go?
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Tony
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1/23/2009 9:07:23 PM
Their identity is not the issue. Ours is.
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Mary Anne
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1/23/2009 8:47:27 PM
"To abandon the law in a nation of laws abandons the nation"
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Lindy
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1/25/2009 4:54:42 PM
re: the issue
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TB
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1/23/2009 8:50:28 PM
Baloney
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Mary Anne
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1/23/2009 8:59:34 PM
Thank You!!!
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Jody
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1/23/2009 8:22:36 PM
There are intelligence and security issues too
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TB
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1/23/2009 8:38:30 PM
You know, if people are criminals, they deserve a trial so that the world can see justice.
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Mary Anne
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1/23/2009 8:51:14 PM
I'll tell you the truth: all the alternatives scare me.
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Mary Anne
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1/23/2009 8:38:02 PM
I am beginning to understand...
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Jody
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1/23/2009 8:59:37 PM
It's not hope so much.
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Mary Anne
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1/23/2009 9:09:05 PM
I have to smile.
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/24/2009 4:16:57 AM
Do or not do. There is no "try".
(n/t)
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Mary Anne
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1/30/2009 7:02:20 PM
Maybe...
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Jody
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1/24/2009 2:51:28 PM
Of course you're smiling. It's typical when someone lies.
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azstrummer
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1/24/2009 2:50:44 PM
ah.....now I *get* it. Thanks TB...
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Jody
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1/23/2009 6:05:31 PM
Something you might want to check out.
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TB
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1/23/2009 8:49:19 PM
Take TWO OLD 737's With American Airlines LOGOS still attached
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carl
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1/23/2009 5:23:02 PM
Can the US imprison all who hate the US? Do we turn domestic prisoners loose?
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Bowser
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1/23/2009 6:02:06 AM
They hated us long before Gitmo
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SteveS
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1/23/2009 5:23:48 PM
All of them? Are you sure?
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Mary Anne
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1/23/2009 8:19:44 PM
Hey, hold on there
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SteveS
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1/26/2009 3:59:18 PM
Ah! Common ground!
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Mary Anne
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1/30/2009 7:00:55 PM
Try them and hang them.
(n/t)
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David F Mayer
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1/23/2009 5:55:48 AM
I know you meant "Try them and if found guilty, hang them."
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Tony
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1/23/2009 7:43:30 PM
Yes Tony
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Lindy
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1/25/2009 5:09:42 PM
Easy, put a chip in and let them go.
(n/t)
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RobVG
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1/23/2009 5:30:10 AM
re: Easy, put a chip in and let them go.
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Lindy
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1/25/2009 5:15:27 PM
Give them citizenship. Then let them join the military, and base them naer San Francisco, Chicago, D.C., and NYC.
(n/t)
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Lee
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1/23/2009 4:29:16 AM
Make 'em swim home.
(n/t)
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Eri
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1/23/2009 4:24:16 AM
Feed 'em PEANUT BUTTER Crackers
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carl
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1/23/2009 5:27:44 PM
Says one who's never had food poisoning!
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Eri
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1/24/2009 5:14:17 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.