It's going to be WWIII

[KrazyHorse]

Thanks, UR. Wasn't trying to upstage you or anything.

[Bereta_Eder]

In Greek this is called mas tin echei stimeni
A rough translation would be he has it set up for us - he's waiting 'round the corner

[Jon Miller]

we have a Duke and Executioner

will we also have a Count and an Earl?

I mean it appears that we should have all the peices of an aristocracy

who is the Sheriff?

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[Bereta_Eder]

best avatar ever BTW

[Dinner]

I'm sure some epiletic is going to have a fit when they see it.

BTW I'm glade my directions helped JM.

[Jon Miller]

your welcome

and a shoutout to Ixnay for the sweat avatar

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[Jon Miller]

I just realised, we already have an Emperor

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[Mr. Harley]

If you really want to look at a deserving, hideous Moslem government much more deserving of world attention - the Sudan. Slavery, genocide - but oh, they have oil and they are selling it to Europe and China, who supply them with the arms to exterminate the black nativists and Christians in the South. But that would be too messy, so a group of idiots instead choose to make Iraq the example, which was just a simple vicious dictatorship.

[CharlesBHoff]

Skyjack I hope I spell your name correctly. I hight doubt there will be WWIII as Bush and his Right Wing Christian Fundie make it into than Culture and Religious war with they personal insult aim at the Founder of Islamic and at Islamic culture. Islam have about 1.3 billion follower and when you have that many follower you are going to than few who do terrorist acts, that doesnot support your over simple motion that all Muslum are terrorist. Churchhill and FDR didnot tell lies to other leaders like Bush and Blair did. When they warm Stalin about the Invarsion of the USSR by Hilter on June 21,1941 Stalin didnot believe or trust then, when Hilter did invarsive on that day he was more willing to believe then in the future. Churchill and FDR where multilateralists and they respect other nation opion even annoying one such as French. Churchill once said "The only thing worse than haveing allies is not having allies"

Plus I donot see Bush invadeing Pakistan or Iran as they have nuclear weapon allready.

[Tripledoc]

Totally disagree with the WWIII scenario.

First of all the idea that it is the West against Islam is ridiculous. Nationalist groups which are by coincidence Muslim are fighting for independence in Kashmir, the Phillipines, Chechnia too. Sure Islam is an issue, just as Catholicism is an issue in Northern Ireland, however it is not the fundamental issue. The fundamental issue is that most people would like that the people deciding over their daily lives have some sort of connection to them, often ethnic, tribal or democratic. They don't want some governor of an empire deciding on their behalf. I think what is happening is some sort of final reversal of western imperialism. And this time it is total, meaning that it includes a reversal of economic dominance.

If this was indeed as serious as some comentators are suggesting it would then seem perverse that this War is being used as a cover for in fact obtaining some very short aimed diplomatic stunts. I fail, for instance to see what the precise connection is between fighting terror and overturning regimes in Georgia, Croatia and an attempted coup in Venezuela.

It would seem that certain regimes have decided that the war on terror could be used as a cover under which one could perpetrate various abuses of diplomatic order for their own exclusive benefit.

This of course makes you wonder who the true instigators of terror in fact are.

[Jon Miller]

the Europeans!!!

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[The Mad Monk]

If you've followed my posts, you already know what I'm going to say.

Iraq is just the first step toward neutralizing the Islamist powerbases of Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as Syria, which has supported terrorism in general for its own, currently parallel interests. They have been at war with us for a long time -- we're just getting around to seeing it for what it is.

While not "World War III", it's not that great a leap to see it heading in that direction.

[HershOstropoler]

You're all wrong, it's WW IV.

[Az]

It COULD become one. And some of the most intriguing, geopolitically, stuff could happen in europe.

[Drake Tungsten]

You're all wrong, it's WW IV.

Roland is really Brent Scowcroft? I never would've guessed...