Tahna: It is when everybody but the bad stand-up comedians and the Democratic version of the right-wing conspiracy theorists discounted it months ago.
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Well, we could help them along with their nuclear program by sending them a few, three or four 'Peacekeepers' should do the trick. I mean, since we helped out anyway, we might as well go all the way....
or,
Let South Korea, China, and Japan invade them, then the rest of the world can cry that we let if happen...
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"i new that skipping my classes today was wrong, but i did it anyway."
If you honestly believed that it was wrong, you wouldn't have done it. You may believe that it's wrong in the eyes of others. You may even believe that it is ultimately detrimental to yourself. But you obviously don't actually believe it to be "wrong".
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Chopping off anyone's right hand is wrong, so I shall not do it....
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That most certainly wasn't a straw man. You implied the peace process in Northern Ireland had failed and that people were killing one another again with great vigour. And, um, that isn't happening, at least to my eyes. So if you define what's going on Northern Ireland as a failure of peace, fine, but then there's a far a greater one in DC or, statistically speaking, any American ghetto any day of the week.
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Well bearing in mind there've been something like 700 killings and well over 1000 woundings caused (or almost certainly caused) by the IRA and other paramilitary groups in the last few years, I'm not sure it's really been all that successful. The figures were from The Telegraph BTW, and i think were actually slightly higher...
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But that doesn't mean it's "fallen apart". I assume you intend to live at least to the age of 50, yes? But you're not 50 yet. Does that mean your attempts to live to age 50 have "fallen apart"?
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quote:SECURITY was today being stepped up around police and Army bases in Northern Ireland in the wake of a chilling new threat from the Real IRA.
The dissident republicans yesterday claimed responsibility for a weekend bomb attack on Castlederg police station and warned it was preparing to step up its campaign of terror.
Kablooie.
Don't make false comparisons between Ireland and DC. Omagh in 1998 got nearly triple the DC sniper's body count in less than 1/14th the time.
The group responsible is still active, as mentioned above. It's only a matter of time.
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I'm shocked (well ok, not really) that anoyone expected consistent or moral foreign policy (or other policy) from any government. Let alone the one that sets the standards for hypocrisy.
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