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R. S. Refugee

Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Location: Shangra La, ROK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:18 am Post subject: The Law of Gravity sometimes is most unkind |
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Even the most delusional on this board probably believe in the Law of Gravity. Yeah. I know. It will be repealed, but only for the delusional who are expecting to be raptured up out of this mess.
The Gravitational Physics of
a Settlement in Iraq
by Robert Freeman
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1211-26.htm |
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Octavius Hite

Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: |
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Man, when are you going to stop reading those islammofacist loving, freedom hating websites? We all know that with Jesus W. Bush in charge there is no possible way that this thing can wrong. Great minds such as Oil-slick-dick Cheney, and ole' Rummy, and even Condi "I have an oil tanker named after me" Rice have been on this thing for years now.
Now nevermind that this war is now longer than WWII and WWI, that's just more islamofacist america-hating talk. What we need is for all you secular progressives to get on board and come in for the big win. Remember, Jesus is watching you. |
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R. S. Refugee

Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Location: Shangra La, ROK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Octavius Hite wrote: |
Man, when are you going to stop reading those islammofacist loving, freedom hating websites? We all know that with Jesus W. Bush in charge there is no possible way that this thing can wrong. Great minds such as Oil-slick-*beep* Cheney, and ole' Rummy, and even Condi "I have an oil tanker named after me" Rice have been on this thing for years now.
Now nevermind that this war is now longer than WWII and WWI, that's just more islamofacist america-hating talk. What we need is for all you secular progressives to get on board and come in for the big win. Remember, Jesus is watching you. |
Well, at least Jesus doesn't believe in torture and has compassion for the victims of torture regardless of who they are. Jesus is the personification of Compassion (as is the Buddha). |
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Pligganease

Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:11 am Post subject: |
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*yawn* |
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The Man known as The Man

Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Octavius Hite wrote: |
Man, when are you going to stop reading those islammofacist loving, freedom hating websites? We all know that with Jesus W. Bush in charge there is no possible way that this thing can wrong. Great minds such as Oil-slick-*beep* Cheney, and ole' Rummy, and even Condi "I have an oil tanker named after me" Rice have been on this thing for years now.
Now nevermind that this war is now longer than WWII and WWI, that's just more islamofacist america-hating talk. What we need is for all you secular progressives to get on board and come in for the big win. Remember, Jesus is watching you. |
It's not just Morocco... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Iraq is a political fiction. It was created in the aftermath of World War I so the British could control its oil. The Ottoman Empire had mistakenly sided with the Germans during the War and suffered dismemberment as a result. Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine sprung into fullblown existence as wards of the victors: Britain and France.
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I think the US deserves some sympathy. Our century as a Great Power has been spent trying to clean up the messes the Europeans created--and listening to the Europeans whine about it. |
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cbclark4

Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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I am totally against establishing any settlements in Iraq.
cbc |
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Wangja

Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Octavius Hite wrote: |
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Now nevermind that this war is now longer than WWII and WWI, that's just more islamofacist america-hating talk. What we need is for all you secular progressives to get on board and come in for the big win. Remember, Jesus is watching you. |
I know you're on a urine extraction run OH, but the Iraq war is longer than each of the two world wars? |
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Gopher

Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Our century as a Great Power has been spent trying to clean up the messes the Europeans created--and listening to the Europeans whine about it. |
Agree 110%.
Of all that you have said on this board, I think this is the clearest case of you writing something that I might have written myself... |
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Wangja

Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Gopher wrote: |
Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Our century as a Great Power has been spent trying to clean up the messes the Europeans created--and listening to the Europeans whine about it. |
Agree 110%.
Of all that you have said on this board, I think this is the clearest case of you writing something that I might have written myself... |
Pearl Harbo(u)r was clearing up in Europe? |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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I know you're on a urine extraction run OH, but the Iraq war is longer than each of the two world wars?
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I think it would be closer to the mark to say that the US has now been fighting in Iraq longer than they fought in both World Wars combined. But even that I don't think is accurate. Didn't they just pass the World War II mark a few weeks back? |
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Wangja

Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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I know you're on a urine extraction run OH, but the Iraq war is longer than each of the two world wars?
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I think it would be closer to the mark to say that the US has now been fighting in Iraq longer than they fought in both World Wars combined. But even that I don't think is accurate. Didn't they just pass the World War II mark a few weeks back? |
1914-18 and 1939-45. A way short in both cases. |
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Octavius Hite

Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thats what I meant, the US has been in Iraq longer than they were in WWI or WWII. |
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Gopher

Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Wangja wrote: |
Pearl Harbo(u)r was clearing up in Europe? |
British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, and others' imperialism in East Asia, Japan's inferiority complex and response to said Great Power imperialism, and then postwar decolonization there (and in Africa and the Middle East) was not European-induced, -caused, or -derived?
U.S.-Japanese relations and Pearl Harbor occurred in a vaccuum?
And while we are at it, who stubbornly and mean-spiritedly insisted on punishing Germany and extracting crippling reparations from it after the First World War -- and what did this contribute to on the ground in Germany?
I freely admit that with Vietnam and now Iraq we are nearly in the same league. But let us not forget just how bad Europe made things in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the rest of the planet... |
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Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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Wangja wrote: |
On the other hand wrote: |
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I know you're on a urine extraction run OH, but the Iraq war is longer than each of the two world wars?
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I think it would be closer to the mark to say that the US has now been fighting in Iraq longer than they fought in both World Wars combined. But even that I don't think is accurate. Didn't they just pass the World War II mark a few weeks back? |
1914-18 and 1939-45. A way short in both cases. |
1917-18 and 1942-45. They're talking about the US. (Always late... ) |
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