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The Good: recent stuff [quote] Signs of Hope in Afghanistan: You can travel around, as CBS News has, and see the results of foreign aid projects in the countryside. There are big projects, like a highway construction program that began with the Kabul to Kandahar road, which was completed in record ...

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No one had clean hands in this matter.

That's a better quote than your original, and it applies to a lot more than Rwanda.

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Yes there is, Krom. I've been accused of ... having an opinion because I'm belgian. Accused you of having an opinion because you're Belgian? I've heard of thin-skinned before, but wtf. Observe how quickly you guys manage to piss me off, insult me and laugh at me, for a simple unpleasantness I utter...

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That is your opinion and nothing more. Why not let me have mine? Yeah Lothar, let him have his opinion. You took a jab at the U.S., fine. I don't know if we're supposed to just nod in agreement or be silent. I doubt you really thought we would ... being we're so predictable and all. I smell a drama...

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Yes, there was more to Rwanda than that, obviously. But, is what I stated wrong? Your quote implies that unlike the U.S. (which always screws up first), you're country has no such problem. I beg to differ.

P.S. You're pretty predictable yourself.

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Belgium doing things right the first time: [a] poll shows that more than ever, Belgians support sending out troops to intervene in cases of massive violations of human rights. Forty-two percent of the respondents criticised Belgium's decision to pull out of Rwanda in the early days of the genocide -...

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There's no way you're that naive, so please don't assume the rest of us are, either.

Feelin' smarmy today? You go girl.

Never knew there was a rule about thread titles. My bad.

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The U.N. Security Council has unanimously endorsed the US-British resolution on transferring sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government today. Link And coalition authorities have handed over complete control of Iraq's oil industry to the interim government. Link Our imperialistic war for oil is not...

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But would anyone vote for a blue Libertarian senator? When it comes to Senate candidates, Stan Jones is a stand-out â?? he's blue. The 63-year-old Montana Libertarian has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he made himself by electrically charging a couple of silver wires in a glass of ...

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Kennedy was killed in office. True, and Franklin's on the $100. Maybe we should put Reagan on the quarter, since George is also on the dollar. Or Garfield, or McKinley ... since they were also killed in office, if that works out to be part of the criteria. I think Millard Fillmore is definitely out...

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Yet, I don't recall anyone complaining when Kennedy was put on the half dollar. Ben Franklin got the boot in that decision.

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One of the original ganstas, very first pimp of da department of bling bling, wrote some phat raps in de federalist papers, had a stylin' hairdo, got a cap popped in his azz during a duel with Notorius Burr G ... Hamilton was just ahead of his time. Gotta give him his props. Yo.

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Looks like she's counting her bowel movements now. Make it stop.

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Ah, the beat-your-kid-to-death-because-your-ancestors-suffered gene. A kid's dead and the killer is the victim. Yep. Next up -- giving birth has caused intense pain to women for thousands of years; Susan Smith released in "cumulative trauma" appeal. Glancing ahead -- Israel drops 1,000 ton...

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Bottom line is they accept no registrations from new liberals to criticize them! Good point. It's not exactly a bastion of free speech, leaving a stagnant consensus with little challenge. And I don't intend to lump all liberals together. I guess I possess a distinction in my head between traditiona...

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Another link: Was Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" based on a real event? Answer Not the entire novel, but the basic idea of a whale that turned the tables on its hunters was the basis for Melville's "Moby Dick". The whaling ship Essex was lost in the Pacific (1820) after coming acr...

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reviewing all the positives of Reagans presidency we will find voters looking favorably on Bush Unless, of course, you frequent the Democratic Underground. I just had to see what they were saying over there. Contrary to what you said, I don't think the Lefties will call Bush "un-Reagan like&qu...

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It's a .jpg

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pfft, anyone remember trickle down economics? gee who allowed that to happen? Whoever invented money? The idea that wealth builds industry, which provides public funds and job opportunity which benefits everyone when fostered is hardly an invention of Ronald Reagan. "Trickle down economics&quo...

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Interesting, I always pictured you with dredlocks, a "God is Dead" t-shirt, a perma-scowl. There's almost a smile happening there. Maybe it's just the drugs

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Yeah, I was thinking about the cultural reasons for food/resource deprivation, too. Rejecting genetically modified food in African countries where starvation is common came to mind.

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The population issue isn't primarily about space, it's about resources. I was just addressing the perception that the world is crawling with too many people and we're running out of room ... hence the word "overcrowded". Still, I've got some questions about the too few resources angle as ...

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I was reading this guy's weblog recently (Dean's World) and he had an interesting entry concerning the planet supposedly being overcrowded. In his final analysis, he concludes that if there are 7 billion people worldwide in the year 2010 (as predicted) and all of them were forced to lived in Alberta...

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Charming. An age-appropriate spokesperson for the mentality I suppose. Another pawn condemned to a head full of crap and a heart full of hate. Shame.

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Just a note -- the selective polling data on the site I linked to was intended to illustrate that we have, in fact, done things for the Iraqis, which many acknowledge (hence the quote I resonded to). I thought about linking the originals, but most of the negative responses relate to whether or not t...

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We need to be wary of the % of people that are unhappy Though the poll doesn't reflect religious sect, I'd be willing to bet that the positive responses came mostly from the Kurds in the north and Shi'ite majority in the south, and the negatives from the Sunni minority (the favored social/religious...

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The Americans have not done a thing for Iraqis The poll numbers in Iraq would seem to contradict that assertion: These results are from an ABCNEWS poll conducted among a random, representative sample of 2,737 Iraqis in face-to-face interviews across the country from Feb. 9-28. Pre-war vs. post-war:...

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Heh, check out the movie trailers on this site: http://www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com/secrettrailer.html If you ever saw "Roger and Me" and Moore's quest to get an interview with GM Chairman, Roger Smith, you'll find it amusing (well, unless you worship Jabba the Nut or something). Seems...

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Bet they're going at it like rabbits now that the clouds have parted (Auchtung fraulein, meine frankfurter is like das Hindenburg again!). I wonder if they'll be shocked that the baby doesn't arrive via courier, packaged in cellophane and styrofoam peanuts.

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HAH, little do you know. Here is my translator ... he speaks all languages fluently ... and you will apologize to him:

http://dailypics.blogfodder.net/arapuppet.jpg

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"I had my testicles replaced with a pair of these. Fabulous, aren't they?"

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http://www.ryano.net/iraq/?146169

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And essentially what you guys are proposing is erasing other cultures! Oh, I don't think so. If you can't make a distinction between a culture that says "believe what you want" and a culture that says "believe this or else" then I don't know what to say to you. Maybe you just ha...

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I appreciate your attempt, but where did *Iraq* appear in your headlines? The purpose of the list wasn't to identify countries responsible for those attacks (since none were officially sponsored by any country). Rather it was to show the threat of radical Islam and its global implications. Why Iraq...

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why didn't we go after the Saudis?

Military size and track record?

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You're saying we haven't done these things? Oh, c'mon. Are you going to cite 19th century Indian Wars and 18th century slave trade practices now? You know what I meant. When our government drops VX nerve agent on Seattle, starts "disappearing" protestors into torture chambers, conducts pu...

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OK, Please outline just what *threat* we're talking about here, in very clear terms. 1983 April 18, Beirut, Lebanon: U.S. embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; 63 dead. Oct. 23, Beirut, Lebanon: Shi'ite suicide bombers exploded truck near U.S. military barracks at Beirut airport, killing 24...

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Hrmmm, I'm not sure how the virgin distribution is going to work on this one. I'll speculate that we're talking a significant downgrade ... something from the Tier 4 package: a DVD of Virgins Gone Wild, a copy of Cooking with Martyrs, and three unusually attractive goats.

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Next thing you know, they'll ask for a shrubbery.

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Advanced apologies, this absolutely juvenile ... but funny. Put the voice on Audrey (UK) and paste this in the text box: Today, in London, the BBC reports that international poop prices have increased by 25 percent. don't you think that poop is a funny word? I like totally think it's funny. it's the...

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So..... (Iraq's oil industry)

The envy of sardines?