quote:Originally posted by TSN: Though, personally, I'd like my Twelfth Amendment right to vote for president and vice-president separately.
Those were the days.
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The resistance is using the Iraqi flag flown between the end of British occupation and Saddam's tinkering, adding words saying God is Great or words to that effect, thus reinforcing that they, the insurgents, are fighting for a free Iraq. This new flag, discussed in this thread, is coming to define those who believe in and work for the Americans and their allies.
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quote:Originally posted by newark: The resistance is using the Iraqi flag flown between the end of British occupation and Saddam's tinkering, adding words saying God is Great or words to that effect, thus reinforcing that they, the insurgents, are fighting for a free Iraq. This new flag, discussed in this thread, is coming to define those who believe in and work for the Americans and their allies.
Actually the script for "God is great" was added to the flag by Saddam himself as a means of showing he was a good Muslim (since the Ba'ath party was a secular party.) ...as for the insurgents, I am not suprised; IMHO the occupation authorites made another egerious blunder by presuming to design a flag rather than leave such a decision to any future Iraqi government. Of course as I said before, the new flag is a perfect symbol of the regard these people show to the Iraqi population...
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quote: It is a measure of how far the Governing Council is out of touch with ordinary Iraqi opinion that they should have voted to change the flag in the first place. Mohammed, an engineer trying to patch up a broken sewage pipe in Baghdad, still had time to express his fury at the change. "Of course the occupation is a disaster," he said. "We understand the Governing Council are American agents. But a man has to be the worst of collaborators to change his country's flag."
In a way though that flag may end up being a perfect symbol of one of the biggest disasters in US foriegn policy history; IMHO the neocon-artists who got us into this mess should be tarred and feathered and run out of the country...preferably to Geneva to stand trial for instigating war crimes.
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"I wonder how many people (besides myself) will end up voting for Kerry just to vote out weasels like Cheney?"
I, for one.
Now, if you'd just done that the last time, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Also, "dude"?
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Actually, Liam, a LOT of prople did exactly that last time: everyone sick of Clinton voted either for Nader out of spite or for Bush, hoping for some positive change.
Didint work out exactly as planned.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: My fear is that Kerry has NO idea who will fill those slots.
Why is that exactly?
Because I've seen three interviews where Kerry was asked that exact question and he seemed caught completely off-guard. As if he never expected be asked at all (and after he's been so critical of the job Powell and Rice have done).
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: It is a company that our 'great' VP was once in charge of, that has gotten a lot of good contracts.....
Although he swears that he had broken all ties years ago.....
Thanks Ritten, and others. Maybe I haven't been paying as much attention to your vice president's antics.
Intrestingly enough, they've gotten the same great contracts no matter who was president. Kellon, Brown and Root (Halliburton subcompany) has supplied logistics services to the Army since 1992 (Bush - not president).
They were granted a $900 million dollar contract to be the SOLE provider of logistics and support to all troops in the Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, and Bosnia.
Of course, the whole Balkan War thing was just a front to secure pipeline routes to the Caspian area... didn't you know that?
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quote:Originally posted by First of Two:
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR:
quote:Originally posted by Ritten: It is a company that our 'great' VP was once in charge of, that has gotten a lot of good contracts.....
Although he swears that he had broken all ties years ago.....
Thanks Ritten, and others. Maybe I haven't been paying as much attention to your vice president's antics.
Intrestingly enough, they've gotten the same great contracts no matter who was president. Kellon, Brown and Root (Halliburton subcompany) has supplied logistics services to the Army since 1992 (Bush - not president).
They were granted a $900 million dollar contract to be the SOLE provider of logistics and support to all troops in the Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, and Bosnia.
Of course, the whole Balkan War thing was just a front to secure pipeline routes to the Caspian area... didn't you know that?
About Dick being a great VP? His being once associated with Haliburton? People not paying attention to our VP? The various contracts already held by said company? Or the pipeline remark?
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quote:Originally posted by Pensive's Wetness: Explain, please...?
Well, see, Halliburton is THE biggest logistics supplier in the world. It's pretty much done everything for the US since Vietnam, and it's done the same thing for other folks as well.
Anytime one company does something more/better than anybody else, whether it's Halliburton or Microsoft, the paranoids crawl out of the woodwork looking for The Next Big Conspiracy (The Freemasons having been exposed as a bunch of old men in aprons who couldn't take over a K-Mart).
As for the Kosovo war being for Oil... I don't believe it myself, but there's plenty of ...people... who do:
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"Now, if you'd just done that the last time, we wouldn't be in this mess."
Well, not so much so. Bush won Missouri by almost 80 000 votes. Besides, I didn't know at the time that he was a megalomaniac with a messiah complex and delusions of imperialism.
"Also, 'dude'?"
I dunno. It seemed right at the time.
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: I dunno. It seemed right at the time.
The last line in most criminal confessions.
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