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John R. Shaw wrote: Ignore the spelling and gramer. I do not have time to consentrate on the details. I like this one! :laugh:

Yea, I beleave bascily your are correct. I have not been here long enough to know, but it is a good idea since it gives us a good place to blow off a little steam. Trust in the code Luke. Yea right!

The TV stations on both sides are just propaganda machines, I don't care if all of them are knocked out. ;-)

Peace, love, and hair grease man! :) Jeremy Falcon "so be it, threaten no more, to secure peace is to prepare for war" - Metallica

*sigh* -- Tune your mind, reach inside, peel away Touch, Taste, Feel, Saturation

So, considering that there are two dozens of them, why are Jordan (an absolute monarchy) and Egypt (one of the biggest allies of USSR during the Cold War) the only Arab recipients of US aid? If the aid is distributed according to (1) being a Middle East democracy and (2) supporting US during the Cold War, then Turkey should be drowning in US economic aid by now? What I wonder is, does US classify Arab governments as being pro-democracy/anti-democracy, or rather being pro-Israel/anti-Israel. Isn't that another proof of US's Israel-centric Middle East policy? US is buying nearby Arab governments' sympathy towards Israel using its citizens' most valuable tax-dollars. If that's so, then hush money would be a better term than economic aid.

John Carson wrote: As you are no doubt aware, the set of criticisms to which you have replied intersects but is rather different from the set of criticisms to which I referred. I did not, for example, claim that the US armed Iraq, nor would I dispute what you say about France, Russia and China in this respect. My intention was not to deny what you said, but to mitigate it with other facts. There is simply no doubt that the US (and in particular the CIA) have gotten their hands dirty. ------------------------------------------ "What happened in that Rhode Island club is shocking. To think that over a hundred people would attend a Great White concert." - The Onion

Paul Watson wrote: Apparently he has a harem of doubles (some of which have been killed mistakenly) and sleeps in a different tent/palace each and every night too. Paranoia does not make a man smart, just unpredictable. He's probably not a dope head, but I doubt he's a genius. Paul Watson wrote: Surely they have every square inch photographed? Everything counts in large amounts. There are many square inches in Iraq. According to the CIA World Factbook[^], the land area of Iraq is 432,162 sq km. That's a square with 650 km sides! It's not like Schweiz ya know. :) -- Shine, enlighten me - shine Shine, awaken me - shine Shine for all your suffering - shine

Hadn't they taken up arms though? (I vaguely remember it being mentioned, but that may have been another city as they all sound the same to me :-O) If so, what were they supposed to do? David Wulff "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!" - Strong Bad [^]

Ed Gadziemski wrote: People in the Nazi death camps were slave laborers Saddam has little need of slave labor, he can rent Palestinians rather cheaply with "Oil For Food" funds.:) All jest aside, I agfee with your observation that Saddam does not equal Hitler for scale or scope of Evil. What do you suppose the world would look like had someone had the courage to do about Hitler what is now being done about Saddam in, say 1933? Would as many have died? Would there even be an Israel, a Palestinian crisis? :rose: Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard

Another Saddam apologist? Jason Henderson "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi articles profile

:laugh::laugh::laugh: Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator. Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

A few years ago a bunch of traders out performed all others. Their method? Using a dartboard to select the stocks to invest in. Damned war is driving the dollar down and the South African Rand up (because gold is nice to have during war and SA has lots of gold, so we are popular during war) which means my GBP are loosing value. Damnit, go back to R20 to the quid, then I can convert again :-D Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Macbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.

John-theKing wrote: IMO everything is fair in war, because war is a war .. I agree, but what a stink it would make if the US nuked Iraq! X|

Rohit  Sinha wrote: Thanks for supporting me. :rose: Aawww shucks, a flower for me? :-O You shouldn't have! :) You're welcome :-D BTW, I loved your post :) Ryan He who laughs last thinks too slowly.

Doug Goulden wrote: ? I see the US and UK being there in a big way for maybe 3 - 6 months after the war, to a lesser extent for 1 to 2 years, with the UN probably involved after that NATO troops are still in Bosnia, remember? A military presence will be needed for a while. Doug Goulden wrote: don't even try to tell me the people there are worse off than they were under the Taliban No, but they aren't in a better shape than before the soviet invasion, with warlords controling the country Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop

True, but (at least from what I've seen) when that happens the poster comes back with a "hey what gives message." But, like you've said, I guess I can't know for sure. Jeremy Falcon