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sj2
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In other news ......
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Sep 18 01:09 UTC 2003 |
Prez Gush announced that there is no link between the 9/11 attacks and
Saddam Hussein. However in a recent poll 70% americans believed so!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3118262.stm
This is after backtracking on the WMD issue. From possessing WMDs to
having a programme for WMDs.
Whats next?
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tod
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response 1 of 35:
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Sep 18 03:33 UTC 2003 |
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tsty
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response 2 of 35:
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Sep 18 04:34 UTC 2003 |
for treh knee-jerk, single-strut-lock-steppers this might be news.
for teh congniscenti who see beyond their erudite nostrils, this
is not news.
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remmers
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Sep 18 09:59 UTC 2003 |
By "knee-jerk, single-strut-lock-steppers" I assume you mean
G.W. Bush & company.
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twenex
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response 4 of 35:
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Sep 18 10:39 UTC 2003 |
Re #1: Since your gut seems to tell you that all Muslims are out to get
America, I wouldn't be too sure about trusting your gut instinct. As a friend
of the USA, I am willing to convert to Islam to prove my point.
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sj2
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Sep 18 11:32 UTC 2003 |
Ahh!! The usual suspects :-)
Islam == Terrorism. A very convenient and saleable theory.
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bru
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Sep 18 13:05 UTC 2003 |
From day one I heard he had "programs to develop WMD" and knew he had used
WMD against the kurds and Iran.
I also knew that terrorists were operating out of his country.
So putting together the idea that he has weapons of mass destruction and that
he may bewilling to pass them on to terrorists is not a giant leap.
one of the least known and most violent groups of terrorists is from northern
Iraq and is Kurdish in origin.
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sj2
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Sep 18 13:45 UTC 2003 |
US's friend in its *war* on terror also matches the description. So
when are your troops invading Pakistan?
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sj2
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Sep 18 13:46 UTC 2003 |
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sj2
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Sep 18 13:49 UTC 2003 |
Btw, India too has WMDs and terrorists operate out of India and on
India. When do we get liberated??
<sarcasm> Re #1, I totally forgot that Imperial powers can act on gut
instinct alone. They do not need to give any evidence to the world. So
it was gut instinct or gut pressure?? </sarcasm>
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twenex
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Sep 18 16:49 UTC 2003 |
Bru - even if Saddam Hussein collaborated with terrorists, it doesn't
necessarily follow that those terrorists were from Al Qaeda. They might well
be from Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
Anyway, last I heard, CNN refused to brand the IRA as terrorists, instead
naming them "guerillas" or "freedom fighers" or some such rubbish.
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happyboy
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Sep 18 17:47 UTC 2003 |
bummer for you, eh?
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bru
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Sep 18 23:03 UTC 2003 |
Al-queda, islamic hjihad, and hamas are not the only terroris roganizations
on the US hit list. This is not a one shot fix.
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twenex
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Sep 18 23:39 UTC 2003 |
You've a point there. I should have said "from Hamas or Islamnic Jihad, for
example".
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tpryan
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Sep 20 22:28 UTC 2003 |
re ^: The Curds? NO whey!
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sj2
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Sep 21 05:18 UTC 2003 |
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sj2
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Sep 21 05:22 UTC 2003 |
In more news, a drunken US soldier kills a rare Bengal tiger in the
Baghdad zoo:
http://in.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/20iraq1.htm
"Musa also added that US soldiers often held parties in the zoo in the
evenings. "We have no way of stopping them," he added."
And woman threatened with jail for travelling to Iraq:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3126220.stm
"For travelling to Iraq Faith Fippinger will now probably lose her
house, her pension and go to jail. "
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tod
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Sep 21 15:03 UTC 2003 |
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tsty
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Sep 21 17:26 UTC 2003 |
re #16 - not very good pr.
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cross
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Sep 21 23:25 UTC 2003 |
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mcnally
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response 20 of 35:
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Sep 22 01:36 UTC 2003 |
"the doggie's"? [sic]
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tod
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Sep 22 03:11 UTC 2003 |
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gelinas
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response 22 of 35:
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Sep 22 03:42 UTC 2003 |
(Right; "dogfaces.")
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tod
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Sep 22 03:51 UTC 2003 |
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sj2
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Sep 22 05:54 UTC 2003 |
This is older news:
Several caught trying to smuggle Iraqi loot
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/iraq/1880300
And there was another one about US troops looting and rampaging the
Baghdad airport (permanently damaged 2-3 Iraq-Air Boeing crafts).
Can't find a link to the BBC story though.
The most shocking one is this:
Troops' anger over US 'friendly fire'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2901515.stm
"They said the US pilot apparently failed to recognise that their
tanks were a British make, with special coalition identification aids
and even a large Union flag on another machine in the five-vehicle
convoy."
I am not trying to say that the US Army as a whole deliberately did
any of this (as against the US government) but this certainly makes
very bad PR and raises other questions.
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