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russ
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response 64 of 85:
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Jul 8 01:32 UTC 2003 |
Re #51: So, Tod, how's the development and democratization going in
Afghanistan? People got increasing faith in the central government?
No chance of the warlords getting out of hand again and popular
discontent leading to another takeover by the likes of Taliban?
A lot of people opposed the war because they figured that we'd win
the war but lose the peace and come out worse. So far they seem to
have been calling it pretty well.
If I were running Iraq right now, the first thing I would do is
conduct a census. The second thing I would do is to put all of
the national industries under corporate ownership, and distribute
shares to the entire Iraqi population. Third, I'd start the oil
industry (for one) paying dividends from its revenues. If there
was any way to convince the whole nation that they don't want
anyone like Saddam ever again, that would probably do it.
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jep
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response 65 of 85:
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Jul 8 02:58 UTC 2003 |
re resp:64: Some optimism for Afghanistan:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-07-afghanistan-usat_x.htm
It isn't a cheery picture, but it may be an improving picture.
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rcurl
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response 66 of 85:
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Jul 8 05:33 UTC 2003 |
It's not a pretty picture.
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pvn
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response 67 of 85:
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Jul 8 06:09 UTC 2003 |
re#45: Nope, the sewers of baghdad and basra, and most other places
connected directly to the rivers. Water treatments plants are
relatively modern in the US as well, the reversal of the chicago river
was a modern marvel - instead of shipping the untreated sewage out into
the lake, they reversed the flow of the river and shipped it what was
now downstream (Some bright soul decided flushing the toilets into the
water faucets wasn's such a good idea...).
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sj2
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response 68 of 85:
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Jul 8 09:28 UTC 2003 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3049300.stm
"Power cuts are the Americans' greatest failure," the driver told me
at the end of the seven-hour long journey through the desert from the
Kuwaiti border.
"Electricity, electricity is so important. If they only fixed that,"
he said with a look of frustration rapidly going over into a resigned
expression.
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http://rediff.com/us/2003/jul/07iraq1.htm
Time magazine cites US officials, Iraqi Airways staff and other
airport workers in its story of US troops stealing duty-free items,
needlessly shooting up the airport, and trashing five serviceable
Boeing airplanes.
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gull
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response 69 of 85:
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Jul 8 13:50 UTC 2003 |
Re #59: I don't really see the parallel. We resolved the Cuban Missile
Crisis through diplomacy, and there was a very real, very obvious threat
there. Iraq's threat to us was considerably more nebulous.
Re #61: You don't remember Bush's speech on the aircraft carrier?
"Bush didn't actually declare outright victory because to do so would
have triggered obligations, returning prisoners of war and not hunting
down enemy commanders among them, that the administration is not ready
to meet.
"But his statement--that "major combat operations have ended. In the
battle of Iraq, the United States and its allies have prevailed"--had
the same effect. No one ever expected to see the victor and the
vanquished sitting across a table negotiating peace in this war."
(Chicago Tribune)
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klg
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response 70 of 85:
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Jul 8 16:10 UTC 2003 |
re: "#69 (gull): ... We resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis through
diplomacy ..."
We seem to recall that a naval blockade was involved in that situation.
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tod
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response 71 of 85:
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Jul 8 18:00 UTC 2003 |
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gelinas
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response 72 of 85:
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Jul 8 19:48 UTC 2003 |
"War is diplomacy by other means," I think the man said.
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tod
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response 73 of 85:
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Jul 8 19:54 UTC 2003 |
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rcurl
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response 74 of 85:
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Jul 8 20:02 UTC 2003 |
It isn't the preferred option, however (except to "hawks").
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gelinas
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response 75 of 85:
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Jul 9 01:49 UTC 2003 |
(Never said it was.)
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tsty
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response 76 of 85:
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Jul 16 08:04 UTC 2003 |
wow - venom back there .. i'll pick up on #11 (i think) <returned
to connectivith recently> in due time.
ummm, threr was a naval blockade reinforcing 'diplomacy' for cuba/russia.
walk softly and carry a big stick!
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gull
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response 77 of 85:
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Jul 16 13:57 UTC 2003 |
Iraq was more-or-less "blockaded" for years.
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pvn
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response 78 of 85:
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Jul 23 05:44 UTC 2003 |
More less than more.
Seems while Sad-ham may still be alive. He two sons are not.
Think of it as evolution in action.
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cscolt
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response 79 of 85:
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Jul 23 22:25 UTC 2003 |
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drclu
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response 80 of 85:
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Aug 2 08:00 UTC 2003 |
Hmmmm.. the fact that he is and his sons aren't worries me. Good or not,
evil or not... what father wouldn't want vengence for the death of his
children? As once said on Star Trek, there is nothing worse than a wounded
beast...
Doctor Clu /|\
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naftee
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response 81 of 85:
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Aug 2 19:25 UTC 2003 |
HI )(_#@$ GREG/
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tod
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response 82 of 85:
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Aug 4 16:32 UTC 2003 |
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naftee
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response 83 of 85:
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Aug 11 02:39 UTC 2003 |
Let's play clue
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displace
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response 84 of 85:
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Aug 28 22:14 UTC 2003 |
Saddam Hussien is not dead. We should definitely not believe any information
that is contrary to this fact, unless it comes with absolute verification.
Also, considering the reasons for the 2nd Gulf War could become under official
investigation by Congress, I don't think that anything the Government says
should be given the benefit of the doubt.
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polytarp
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response 85 of 85:
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Aug 28 22:45 UTC 2003 |
Okay.
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