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It doesn't upset me that the era of unconditional support is over. It upsets me that the same people providing that unconditional support twenty years ago without so much as breaking a moral sweat over it are now the ones lecturing the world about righteousness and probity like they are the valiant holy guardians of human rights or something.
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quote:Originally posted by First of Two: We usually didn't have to worry about a UK Prime Minister suddenly deciding to nerve-gas the Northern Irish.
I'm sure it crossed her mind a few times though!
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Those now near useless nuke in their subs could have a new purpose too....
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What Cartman said. It was all a lot more recent than, say, Japanese mistreatment of POWs during WW2, yet the Japanese government've barely apologised for that.
Regarding our nukes: it bugs me how little I, as your above-average citizen of the the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, actually know about them. What exactly do we have? Bombs, more than likely, but what about the missile warheads? As far as I know, all our missile deterrent is based on the subs (but are there any others?). Tipped on American missiles we can't fire without US permission. Where are they targetted? Are we talking ground or airburst, or both? Single or multiple warheads?
Now, I'm sure that all those same questions couldn't be fully answered by one of you above-average citizens of the United States. But you probably can find out more about yours than we can about ours. Hell, YOU can probably find out more about ours than we can.
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so many Powers have subs in the arctic at all times, we should just just relocate the UN to a undersea base there.
Think of the Sealab jokes if nothing else!
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quote:Originally posted by Veers: I was under the impression that the Madeleine Albright comment was a joke. Even Fox News is reporting that.
Inaccurate. Fox News is reporting that SHE says it was a joke... which is what you'd expect her to say once her comments were leaked to the press. The other people who were there say she didn't sound like she was joking to any of them.
quote:Albright was in the Fox News studio's green room waiting to appear on an evening program when she made the remark.
"She said, 'Do you suppose that the Bush administration has Usama bin Laden hidden away somewhere and will bring him out before the election?'" said Fox News analyst and Roll Call executive editor Mort Kondracke. "She was not smiling."
Two makeup artists who prep the guests before their appearances also reported that Albright did not ask her question in a joking manner.
But that's okay, from Cynthia McKinney to Howard Dean, paranoia runs rampant in the Democratic party.
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So, if she said that Bin Laden was being cloned at Area 51 so terrorism could be spread to the Greys, but didint smile like a horse's ass when she said it, it would of course be true. Because Madelene Allbright would confide in an editor and two makeup artists but not the Democratic Party. Of course.
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That's a different scenario. Democrats are already accusing Bush of purposefully delaying the capture of Sadaam Hussien, absurd as that is, completely seriously. Delaying the capture of bin Laden is the exact same concept, is it not? Cloning someone at Area 51, which everyone knows is only used for flight tests of alien spacecraft, is several orders of magnitude more absurd, and thus not a valid comparison.
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If a former Secretary of State told you something mildly bizarre, without laughing or smiling...
Knowing that the mildly bizarre is occasionally true...
Given McKinney, McDermott, and Dean's comments, among others, why would you NOT believe her?
Or is it just that Democrats have gotten in the habit of consistently saying things that they don't actually believe? I could buy that.
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She said: 'Do you suppose that the Bush administration has Usama bin Laden hidden away somewhere and will bring him out before the election?" That sure doesnt sound like she's in the know at all, but it does sound like she's being a wise ass. She should join Flare.
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Now, where did I put that "All Democrats Love Osama Bin Laden" t-shirt we get when we join the party. Ah, here it is, next to the "As A Democrat, I Oppose Mr. Bush So I (Heart) Terrorists" bumper sticker, also a free gift with party membership.
Boy, talk about inane conjecture.
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quote: "He seems to believe if you are just against everything, that's enough. Against removing Saddam Hussein, against middle-class tax cuts, against knocking down the walls of protection around the world so we can sell more products made in America," Lieberman said. "Dr. Dean has become Dr. No."
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Liberman is an idiot. Sorry, it had to be said.
But that, well, that's some trenchant political commentary you've got there from someone, running to the right to garner votes, trying to spin and gain on the front-runner.
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Eric Alterman, of the Altercation blog, writes:
quote:Want more good news? Here�s our Quote of the Day: "Lots of people did not want to join the resistance because they did not want to be called Saddam supporters. But now all the people who oppose the Americans will join." That's from Ibrahim Mutlak, director of police patrols for SalahadinProvince, where Mr. Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, is located
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Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
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