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THe US is guilty of poor judgment to say the least but we chose the lesser of two weavles.
It's pretty common knowledge that we've given Iraq aid and that Saddam used it murder his own people. Be sure to point that same finger at all the major military powers and most of the minor players as well. I'm sure that Iraq's weapons and munitions were made by all the NATO powers and definitely the former USSR and current Russia as well. Suppling aid to creeps is morally shakey to be sure but Saddam chose to use them: mainly on his own people and his neighbors.
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I just have one question: why is Saddam not being treated as a POW?
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And Coke against Pepsi. Saddam's not a POW exactly....he'd have a new classification: we never nabbed a country's leader before (well, Hirothito but we gave him a walk to hold Japan together).
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"THe US is guilty of poor judgment to say the least but we chose the lesser of two weavles."
Some would argue that choosing between weevils at all is poor judgment in and of itself.
"Be sure to point that same finger at all the major military powers and most of the minor players as well."
Oh please. The US alone has more skeletons in its lockers than there are graves in Iraq. You're right, the European players don't have the moral high ground here, but most of those fingers will still be pointing at you.
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See how they run. Like ants, after their anthill has been kicked over, they try to find some shelter, to make some 'good' come out of the damage that has been done to them.
They thought we'd never find Saddam. They were wrong. Now they're terrified he might say something they don't want to hear, so they create this 'hope' that He'll instead talk about crap 20 years old. They thought the tax cuts wouldn't help the economy. Growth up 8.2%. Now they're terrified it'll continue. And worse, they're terrified now that we might catch BinLaden, and make the whole trifecta, before 11/04.
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Meh, somthing big will happen between now and then. Someone will strap a nuke to an oil-tanker and cook the gulf-coast, or there will be a massive flu outbreak that kills hundreds of thosands... Somthing.
Watch.
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So, are you saying that it will come up in the trial, the government will admit to it, and the people will forgive them?
I'm just asking a question. Yeah, we screwed up in the past. THIS TIME we did the right thing. What do you want us to do now? I'm honestly starting to think that should by some fluke I become president, the first thing I'd need to do is go to every major world leader and ask what I can do for them and their country. We've never admitted that we've done anything wrong, and that needs to be done. But we can't just say, "Please, sir, make us your bitch because we've been a bad boy." The question is always, what do we do NOW? Not how can you retaliate against us for yesterday, but how can we work together for tomorrow.
That said, I must agree with Rob. I mean, the Democrats are accusing Bush of having purposefully delayed the capture of Sadaam until it was politically helpful. Can anyone possibly take that seriously? They are desperate, and they need to stop being so obvious about it.
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quote: Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., told a Seattle radio station Monday the U.S. military could have found Saddam "a long time ago if they wanted." Asked if he thought the weekend capture was timed to help Bush, McDermott chuckled and said: "Yeah. Oh, yeah."
The Democratic congressman went on to say, "There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing."
We've also got BinLaden and about 1500 tons of WMD's we found in Iraq.
News of one will be released in July 04, just in time for the Democratic National Convention.
The other news will hit some time in October of that year.
First "just in time for the 'Democrat Camps' to open." of Two
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: Weevils, it's spelled. Where was that joke from again?
Time immemorial, I expect. But recently revived in Master and Commander.
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"See how they run. Like ants, after their anthill has been kicked over, they try to find some shelter, to make some 'good' come out of the damage that has been done to them."
But in the end...IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTE-E-E-ERRR!!!
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