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  • C Christian Graus

    You forgot the joke icon ?

    Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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    Dirk Higbee
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    Well, not really. Judgement day is coming and we will all answer individually for everything we've done. As far as the 'I told you so' that's for the ones that don't believe it's coming.

    Beauty is only a light switch away.

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    • C Christian Graus

      I'm not saying the USSR did not have nukes. I am saying they had no plan for global domination.

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      Stan Shannon
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      Christian Graus wrote:

      I am saying they had no plan for global domination.

      First, global domination was the central point of communism from its very inception. Second, the Soviet Union was the heir apparent of European imperialism. The notion that they had 'no plan' for global domination is too absurd to even debate. It would have been an historic inevitability, and only a deluded, gullible, poorly read fool would contend otherwise.

      Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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        My girlfriend was telling me the other night that before she was born her parants had to move over here as refugee's because American's destroyed their neighbourhood during the Vietnam war. I never knew the US was even in Cambodia, so out of interest I give you... *** AMERICAN INVASIONS *** Note: for the best experience sing the below loudly while you read the list... America... America... America, FUCK YEAH! Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah, America, FUCK YEAH! Freedom is the only way yeah, Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too, America, FUCK YEAH! So lick my butt, and suck on my balls, America, FUCK YEAH! What you going to do when we come for you now, it’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow FUCK YEAH! Quemoy & Matsu Island Taiwan Straits Congo Laos Vietnam Cuba Dominican Republic Korea Cambodia Thailand (in direct support of Cambodia Operation) Operation Eagle Pull – Evacuation of Cambodia Operation Frequent Wind – Evacuation of Vietnam Mayaguez Operation Operation Urgent Fury – Grenada Lebanon Germany (West Berlin) Austria Korea Japan Italy Trieste Germany (except West Berlin) Austria Asiatic Pacific Korean Service Medal (Army, Navy, Air Force) Berlin Lebanon Libyan Operation El Dorado Canyon Persian Gulf Operation Earnest Will Panama Operation Just Cause Somalia-United Shield-Operation Restore Hope Haiti – Operation Uphold Democracy Operation Southern Watch (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Gulf of Omen W. Of 62’ E. Long, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan) El Salvador Bosnia – Operation Joint Endeavor Operation Joint Guard Operation Vigilant Sentinel Operation Northern Watch Operation Maritime Intercept Operation Joint Forge (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Operation Desert Thunder Operation Desert Fox Thailand Military Operation Cuban Military Operation Iranian, Yemen & Indian Ocean Operation Lebanon Libyan Expedition Panama – (pre and post invasion) Liberia (Operation Sharp Edge) Rwanda (Operation Distant runner) Vietnam Service Medal Operation Desert Storm/Operation Desert Shield Combat Action Ribbon Korean Service Kosovo Campaign Medal (Allied Force) Joint Guardian Allied Harbor Sustain Hope/Shining Hope Nobel Anvil Kosovo Task Force Hawk Kosovo Task Force Saber Kosovo Task Force Falcon Kosovo Task force Hunter Kosovo Air Campaign Kosovo Defense campaign

        Mark Brock

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        Rob Graham
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        Keep this up and NZ will be next.

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        • D Dirk Higbee

          Well, not really. Judgement day is coming and we will all answer individually for everything we've done. As far as the 'I told you so' that's for the ones that don't believe it's coming.

          Beauty is only a light switch away.

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          _Damian S_
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          Dirk Higbee wrote:

          As far as the 'I told you so' that's for the ones that don't believe it's coming.

          Wouldn't that be pride/conceit? Which would not be such a christian, charitable thing...

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          • S Stan Shannon

            Christian Graus wrote:

            I am saying they had no plan for global domination.

            First, global domination was the central point of communism from its very inception. Second, the Soviet Union was the heir apparent of European imperialism. The notion that they had 'no plan' for global domination is too absurd to even debate. It would have been an historic inevitability, and only a deluded, gullible, poorly read fool would contend otherwise.

            Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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            Christian Graus
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            I guess you're right. No point in arguing with morons.

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            • D Dirk Higbee

              Well, not really. Judgement day is coming and we will all answer individually for everything we've done. As far as the 'I told you so' that's for the ones that don't believe it's coming.

              Beauty is only a light switch away.

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              Christian Graus
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              What does that have to do with manifest destiny ?

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              • C Christian Graus

                I guess you're right. No point in arguing with morons.

                Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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                Stan Shannon
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                You really do need to read someone besides Chomsky.

                Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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                • O Oakman

                  Yep, we're definitely responsible for East Timor

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                  Christian Graus
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                  That's called a weak man argument. I said 'most' and you assume I said 'all', choose one example that disproves the statement I did not make, and assume I have been shot down in flames. Only people with nothing to back themselves up, resort to such tactics.

                  Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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                  • O Oakman

                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    The US did at least as much as the USSR to bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.

                    Why, I wonder, when the U.S. was the only nation with nuclear weapons, didn't the Pentagon just charge right in and bomb the shit out of the USSR? If you think the Russians wouldn't have taken advantage of that kind of technological superiority, I suggest you check your impressions with eastern Europeans.

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                    Oakman wrote:

                    Why, I wonder, when the U.S. was the only nation with nuclear weapons, didn't the Pentagon just charge right in and bomb the sh*t out of the USSR? If you think the Russians wouldn't have taken advantage of that kind of technological superiority, I suggest you check your impressions with eastern Europeans.

                    Obviously, the military industrial complex would have been opposed to such an easy victory... :rolleyes:

                    Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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                    • C Christian Graus

                      What does that have to do with manifest destiny ?

                      Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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                      Dirk Higbee
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                      absolutely nothing

                      Beauty is only a light switch away.

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                      • D Dirk Higbee

                        absolutely nothing

                        Beauty is only a light switch away.

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                        Christian Graus
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                        OK, so you were not talking about manifest destiny at all ?

                        Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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                        • S Stan Shannon

                          You really do need to read someone besides Chomsky.

                          Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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                          _Damian S_
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                          Stan Shannon wrote:

                          Chomsky

                          Anna Chlumsky? She was great in My Girl... hehe...

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                          • R Rob Graham

                            Keep this up and NZ will be next.

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                            _Damian S_
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                            Can it be?

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                            • D Dirk Higbee

                              No, because they're pointless, time, life and money wasting agenda's brought on by war monger's like daddy and junior Bush.

                              Beauty is only a light switch away.

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                              Stan Shannon
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                              Dirk Higbee wrote:

                              because they're pointless, time, life and money wasting agenda's brought on by war monger's like daddy and junior Bush.

                              No, they are an essential, effective and unavoidable reality in the modern world.

                              Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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                              • C Christian Graus

                                OK, so you were not talking about manifest destiny at all ?

                                Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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                                Dirk Higbee
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                                No it was a smart a** reply to Stan's misguided comment about religious extremism.

                                Beauty is only a light switch away.

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                                • D Dirk Higbee

                                  No it was a smart a** reply to Stan's misguided comment about religious extremism.

                                  Beauty is only a light switch away.

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                                  Christian Graus
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                                  OK - imagine my confusion.

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                                  • S Stan Shannon

                                    You really do need to read someone besides Chomsky.

                                    Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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                                    Christian Graus
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                                    I actually only own one book of his, only b/c it was a giveaway in a book club. I found him to be somewhat biased and one dimensional.

                                    Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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                                    • S Stan Shannon

                                      Dirk Higbee wrote:

                                      because they're pointless, time, life and money wasting agenda's brought on by war monger's like daddy and junior Bush.

                                      No, they are an essential, effective and unavoidable reality in the modern world.

                                      Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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                                      Dirk Higbee
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                                      Stan Shannon wrote:

                                      essential

                                      not even

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                                      effective

                                      yeah right, the Iraq war has been real effective in killing off our loved ones

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                                      unavoidable reality

                                      first of all, reality is a myth, and ideality is a dream so perhaps an unavoidable actuality due to the lower mentality of those that cannot see war solves nothing in the long run because 300 years from now no one will care.

                                      Beauty is only a light switch away.

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                                      • C Christian Graus

                                        OK - imagine my confusion.

                                        Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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                                        Dirk Higbee
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                                        sorry about that

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                                        • C Christian Graus

                                          That's called a weak man argument. I said 'most' and you assume I said 'all', choose one example that disproves the statement I did not make, and assume I have been shot down in flames. Only people with nothing to back themselves up, resort to such tactics.

                                          Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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                                          Oakman
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                                          As usual, Christian, you start off by telling me what I think and what I am saying, then you, brilliantly refute my your arguments and end up with a cheap shot. If you were honest with yourself, you could come up with a long list of geopolitical hotspots that occurred having nothing to do the the US. But that's a pretty big if. If you were even more honest, you'd admit that if the U.S. hadn't tried - however unsuccessfully in some cases, to draw a line in the sand, the Sino-Soviet block of the fifties and sixties would have created a world that you wouldn't want to live in.

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