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  • L Lost User

    The Australian Prime Minister should look after his own campaign as I recall, the Australians go to the polls later this year.

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    oilFactotum
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    Richard A. Abbott wrote:

    The Australian Prime Minister should look after his own campaign

    Maybe that is what he is doing. His real aim may be for domestic Australian consumption.

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    • B Bassam Abdul Baki

      Click here.[^] Stan, what do you think of this? Do you think the republicans, or an individual high in that group, asked the Australian PM to use that argument?


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      Lost User
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      As sensible as I expected.

      The tigress is here :-D

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      • M Mike Gaskey

        Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

        what do you think of this?

        good to hear a politician with an honest assessment.

        Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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        Mike Gaskey wrote:

        good to hear a politician with an honest assessment.

        guess it isn't so good, eh?

        Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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          Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

          what do you think of this?

          good to hear a politician with an honest assessment.

          Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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          Marc Clifton
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          ""It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreements in the lives and heart of someone else's civil war...If he's ginned up to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he call up another 20,000 Australians and send them to Iraq. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric." Yes it is. Marc

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          • M Mike Gaskey

            Mike Gaskey wrote:

            good to hear a politician with an honest assessment.

            guess it isn't so good, eh?

            Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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            oilFactotum
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            It may be an honest assessment, but it is wrong. Perhaps it is because some, like myself, thing that it's not that you like hearing an honest assesment so much as hearing an assessment that you agree with( and for that reason declare it to be honest).

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              ""It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreements in the lives and heart of someone else's civil war...If he's ginned up to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he call up another 20,000 Australians and send them to Iraq. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric." Yes it is. Marc

              Thyme In The Country

              People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
              There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
              People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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              Mike Gaskey
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              Marc Clifton wrote:

              It's time to admit that no.......

              Obama and the majority of Democrats are out and out fools. Regardless of what opinion you may have on why we are where we are, the fact of the matter is that we've pulled a scab off of Iraq and it is the height of irresponsibility to believe we should walk away.

              Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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              • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                Click here.[^] Stan, what do you think of this? Do you think the republicans, or an individual high in that group, asked the Australian PM to use that argument?


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                Stan Shannon
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                All I know is that if this country puts someone named Ofuckingbama in the oval office, I'm moving to Australia.

                Modern liberalism has never achieved anything other than giving Secularists something to feel morally superior about

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                • O oilFactotum

                  It may be an honest assessment, but it is wrong. Perhaps it is because some, like myself, thing that it's not that you like hearing an honest assesment so much as hearing an assessment that you agree with( and for that reason declare it to be honest).

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                  Mike Gaskey
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                  oilFactotum wrote:

                  but it is wrong

                  you don't think that an enemy, Al Q., doesn't salivate at the idea of cowardly democrats holding the presidency?

                  Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                  • M Mike Gaskey

                    oilFactotum wrote:

                    but it is wrong

                    you don't think that an enemy, Al Q., doesn't salivate at the idea of cowardly democrats holding the presidency?

                    Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                    Quite frankly, I don't think they care who is president. But if they did, they would probably prefer an incompetent like Bush who has done more to send recruits to the terrorists than they could have ever hoped for. And by the way, recognizing the reality of Bush's failed war is not cowardly. The cowardice is pretending that we are winning a lost war.

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                    • S Stan Shannon

                      All I know is that if this country puts someone named Ofuckingbama in the oval office, I'm moving to Australia.

                      Modern liberalism has never achieved anything other than giving Secularists something to feel morally superior about

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                      Lost User
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                      It saves thinking.

                      The tigress is here :-D

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                      • O oilFactotum

                        Quite frankly, I don't think they care who is president. But if they did, they would probably prefer an incompetent like Bush who has done more to send recruits to the terrorists than they could have ever hoped for. And by the way, recognizing the reality of Bush's failed war is not cowardly. The cowardice is pretending that we are winning a lost war.

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                        oilFactotum wrote:

                        And by the way, recognizing the reality of Bush's failed war is not cowardly.

                        oh sure, so all the Democrats who voted to authorize the war were completely taken in by Bush. Horse shit. The cowards, starting with Kerry and running through Clinton, were all on board until the going got tough. Then, like the turncoat cowards they are, all of a sudden Bush became the evil bad guy. let me repeat, what a load of horse shit.

                        Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                        • S Stan Shannon

                          All I know is that if this country puts someone named Ofuckingbama in the oval office, I'm moving to Australia.

                          Modern liberalism has never achieved anything other than giving Secularists something to feel morally superior about

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                          Rob Manderson
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                          Stan Shannon wrote:

                          I'm moving to Australia

                          Can't think of a better reason to vote for him!

                          Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^] My blog mirror http://robmanderson.blogspot.com[^]

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                            Stan Shannon wrote:

                            I'm moving to Australia

                            Can't think of a better reason to vote for him!

                            Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^] My blog mirror http://robmanderson.blogspot.com[^]

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                            Bassam Abdul Baki
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                            :-D


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                            • M Mike Gaskey

                              oilFactotum wrote:

                              And by the way, recognizing the reality of Bush's failed war is not cowardly.

                              oh sure, so all the Democrats who voted to authorize the war were completely taken in by Bush. Horse shit. The cowards, starting with Kerry and running through Clinton, were all on board until the going got tough. Then, like the turncoat cowards they are, all of a sudden Bush became the evil bad guy. let me repeat, what a load of horse shit.

                              Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                              oilFactotum
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                              Mike Gaskey wrote:

                              so all the Democrats who voted to authorize the war were completely taken in by Bush.

                              So you are saying that Bush lied about the WMD's and links to Al-Queda and the Democrats knew this when they voted for the war. I'll agree that Bush lied, but I don't think that everyone knew it, but I will concede that very few Dems were willing to stand up to Bush and maybe that can be called cowardice. But, of course, if the Dems knew, then so did the R's, so they are equally cowardly.

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                              were all on board

                              Perhaps.

                              Mike Gaskey wrote:

                              until the going got tough

                              No, rather until it was clear that Bush was incapable of victory. He lost the war, so why would anyone stick to a losing policy? It's way past time to change the policy, the Dems recognize this as do many R's. -- modified at 15:32 Monday 12th February, 2007

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                              • S Stan Shannon

                                All I know is that if this country puts someone named Ofuckingbama in the oval office, I'm moving to Australia.

                                Modern liberalism has never achieved anything other than giving Secularists something to feel morally superior about

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                                Bassam Abdul Baki
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                                So is Obama way different than any other democrat that you haven't moved already or is it the name? I had hope for you Stan. I really did. :sigh:


                                "I know which side I want to win regardless of how many wrongs they have to commit to achieve it." - Stan Shannon Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM

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                                • R Rob Manderson

                                  Stan Shannon wrote:

                                  I'm moving to Australia

                                  Can't think of a better reason to vote for him!

                                  Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^] My blog mirror http://robmanderson.blogspot.com[^]

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                                  oilFactotum
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                                  Australians might disagree:)

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                                    Australians might disagree:)

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                                    Rob Manderson
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                                    Heh - I'm still an Australian :)

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                                    • O oilFactotum

                                      Mike Gaskey wrote:

                                      so all the Democrats who voted to authorize the war were completely taken in by Bush.

                                      So you are saying that Bush lied about the WMD's and links to Al-Queda and the Democrats knew this when they voted for the war. I'll agree that Bush lied, but I don't think that everyone knew it, but I will concede that very few Dems were willing to stand up to Bush and maybe that can be called cowardice. But, of course, if the Dems knew, then so did the R's, so they are equally cowardly.

                                      Mike Gaskey wrote:

                                      were all on board

                                      Perhaps.

                                      Mike Gaskey wrote:

                                      until the going got tough

                                      No, rather until it was clear that Bush was incapable of victory. He lost the war, so why would anyone stick to a losing policy? It's way past time to change the policy, the Dems recognize this as do many R's. -- modified at 15:32 Monday 12th February, 2007

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                                      oilFactotum wrote:

                                      So you are saying that Bush lied about the WMD's

                                      no I'm not. I'm saying that congress, Democrats included, plus other nations including the UK / Australia / most of Europe - all believed Iraq had WMD. If you believe different, I suggest you contact your congress person and present a petition that presses for impeachment.

                                      oilFactotum wrote:

                                      No, rather until it was clear that Bush was incapable of victory. He lost the war

                                      So, is the war over? You only lose (read up on Vietnam)if you quit too soon. Right no Bush has the enemy to fight and that enemy is aided and abetted by the press, who have drummed every misstep into American living rooms, the Democrats, who I'll repeat are natural cowards, plus everyother armchair quarterback.

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                                      the Dems recognize

                                      only recognize a chance to capitalize on a circumstance that can leverage them back into power. nothing more.

                                      Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                                        All I know is that if this country puts someone named Ofuckingbama in the oval office, I'm moving to Australia.

                                        Modern liberalism has never achieved anything other than giving Secularists something to feel morally superior about

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                                        Gotta love democracy.

                                        This statement was never false.

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                                        • M Mike Gaskey

                                          oilFactotum wrote:

                                          So you are saying that Bush lied about the WMD's

                                          no I'm not. I'm saying that congress, Democrats included, plus other nations including the UK / Australia / most of Europe - all believed Iraq had WMD. If you believe different, I suggest you contact your congress person and present a petition that presses for impeachment.

                                          oilFactotum wrote:

                                          No, rather until it was clear that Bush was incapable of victory. He lost the war

                                          So, is the war over? You only lose (read up on Vietnam)if you quit too soon. Right no Bush has the enemy to fight and that enemy is aided and abetted by the press, who have drummed every misstep into American living rooms, the Democrats, who I'll repeat are natural cowards, plus everyother armchair quarterback.

                                          oilFactotum wrote:

                                          the Dems recognize

                                          only recognize a chance to capitalize on a circumstance that can leverage them back into power. nothing more.

                                          Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                                          oilFactotum
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                                          Mike Gaskey wrote:

                                          I'm saying that congress, Democrats included, plus other nations including the UK / Australia / most of Europe - all believed Iraq had WMD.

                                          Well, you just answered your own question with "yes".

                                          Mike Gaskey wrote:

                                          so all the Democrats who voted to authorize the war were completely taken in by Bush.

                                          Mike Gaskey wrote:

                                          So, is the war over?

                                          No, but any opportunity to win it has been squandered by Bush. I've read numerous pieces by people who believe that an increase in troops could make a difference, but the number of troops required was always between 30,000 and 100,000 for at least 18 months. Bush's surge is 21,000 for less than a year. There may be some theoretical possiblity of victory, but not with Bush.

                                          Mike Gaskey wrote:

                                          You only lose (read up on Vietnam)if you quit too soon.

                                          Sorry to rain on your parade - we weren't "stabbed in the back" in Vietnam. And we're not being "stabbed in the back" now.

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                                          Democrats, who I'll repeat are natural cowards,

                                          You can repeat it all you like, it won't make it true.

                                          Mike Gaskey wrote:

                                          only recognize a chance to capitalize on a circumstance that can leverage them back into power. nothing more.

                                          Whatever:rolleyes: Perhaps you actually believe this. Perhaps you believe that it is only true for Democrats and not Republicans. If so, too bad for you. And if you believe it is true of all politicians, why do you even bother with politics? It would be completely meaningless.

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