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Get that crow ready. "Fertilizer" doesn't set off geiger counters.
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"That's what some of the pro-war advocates have been saying all along -- that we should go in simply because it's the right thing to do, to get rid of a brutal dictator, WMDs or no."
Well, you could say that there is a "brutal dictator" who is "Anti-American" and "suppresses the rights of its citizens" through "harsh measures" in another country.
That country is Canada. Brutal Dictator: Jean Chretien, who is "not with" the Americans, but "against them". Anti-American: all those politicians calling Americans (especially GWB) Bastards. Suppressing the rights of its citizens: Anti-War protestors (aka Chretien's "thugs") scuffling with Pro-War demonstrators (aka "liberators") in Toronto. Harsh Measures: Anti-War protestors (aka Chretien's "thugs") burning the American Flag.
Invade away, boys. Now you see how easy it is to simply "remove" a leader you simply don't like.
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quote:Originally posted by Saltah'na: That country is Canada.
What, you Canadians got a guilty conscience or something? Last time I checked, there weren't widespread torture chambers, children being rounded up, armed fanatics roaming the streets watching every citizen for signs of disloyalty, or dozens of opulent palaces just for Jean Chretien...
Let me put it this way... the US is at least partially responsible for helping Hussein amass his power in the first place. Regardless of the motives, announced or otherwise, isn't it appropriate that we go in and clear him out? Again, I'm not suggesting that the US be the world's policeman -- that's not practical, and a lot of people out there wouldn't WANT us to do that anyway. However, in this specific case, in retrospect I think it's justified.
'Course, it's easy to say that after the Republican Guard has melted away and the Third Infantry Division made it to Baghdad in only three weeks.
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Plus, you've got oil. Don't give us any ideas.
Chretien? Brutal? Not even Americans would believe that. "Canadian" and "brutal" just don't belong in the same paragraph. The closest you folks come to "brutal" are your hockey players... the foreign ones.
Oh, and UM's wit. But that's it.
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Besides, why fear Canadians when traitorous Americans are about to corrupt baseball.
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I'll put it to you this way, with no discovery of WMDs, the U.S.'s motives become suspect. So the U.S. would like to invade Iraq because there is a "brutal dictator" who is "Anti-American" and "suppresses the rights of its citizens" through "harsh measures" in his country.
Besides, a lot of Americans hate Canadians for not joining then in this war. A good portion of other Americans would like to see Canada as the 51st state. Did you know there is a book out that labels Jean Chretien as the Canadian Dictator?
Plus we have oil.
So any kooked president could make a case to invade Canada based on dubious means. Hey, if it applied in Iraq, then it could apply here.
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Unless the whole population of America = the panelists on Hardball or whatever similar filth FoxNews has, then I'm with Simon.
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I have to agree. A lot of Americans simply hate Canadians. It has nothing to do w/ recent events. It's been going on much longer than that.
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Since, oh, 1812.
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"Get that crow ready." Heh, that's a good one. Every time in the past three and a half weeks that a Coalition soldier has sneezed, let alone found a mysterious container in a cellar, you've immediately crowed about proof that Iraq had WMDs. Yet, here we are, those three and a half weeks later, and there's still no proof. Every rumour of WMD detection so far has proved to be false - something you've steadfastly ignored as you went on to trumpet the latest 'find.'
So. . . When we have a report of radioactive material found in a bombed Iraqi complex, only for it to emerge that the complex was a hospital, and they were in the X-Ray room, please don't hold back.
I seem to remember a study of the rise in background radiation due to the use of depleted-Uranium shells in the first Gulf War. Must locate that.
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Notice, too, that it's no longer called a disarmament...not by administration officials, by the people, or by the news. No, it's a liberation, because we conveinently named the operation "Iraqi Freedom." So, logically, the disarmament goal of this campaign is no more. I'm sure Bush and his cronies expected to find actual WMD, laid out perfectly on tables for our troops to find. Well, that hasn't happened, and because it hasn't, now it's a "liberation." And that's what 1441 said. If Iraq hasn't disarmed, then serious consequences will follow. Not, "if the inspectors find no WMD, but you say they are there, then you may go in and bomb as much as you like, even if you find out they do not have WMD anymore."
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How old are some of those soldiers they sent down there? 17? 18? They should've named it "Resolution 1337", oh the morale boost.
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Well they are (as Lee so poigniantly stated) yet to plant them convincingly.
Of course the fact that the whole premise of the war has so far turned out to be utter B.S. seems the be escaping the GOP (and its trained baboon). Nice media spin with the liberation thing. Very nice.
P.S.: They're currently trucking the WMD in from Israel, or somewhere. Maybe flying them in from Alabama.
By the way, here is my dog. Please, wag him.
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