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  • #91
    Ramo doesn't care about whether the insurgency strengthens or more of our soldiers are killed, apparently, as long as Bush gets beat in November...
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    • #92
      I bet Kerry personally leaked the story, right after sucking the brains out of a couple of babies and taking a leak on the graves of the victims of 9/11.
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      • #93
        That's sad, because this will have no impact on Bush whatsoever.
        No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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        • #94
          I agree...

          edit: Damn your x-posting, MM!
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          • #95
            Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
            Rigging elections for democracy
            Democracy
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            • #96
              Leaking this helps to deter this Admin (and any other) from doing more evil-retarded things like this. And it reminds others of our freedom of press that disinfects gov't abuse.




              Do you really think the CIA goes to Congress with everything? I can bet they didn't do so with Iran-Contra. The person who leaked the info thankfully had some ethics and realized that the administration and the CIA must be slapped down from thinking about trying such things in the future.

              And as said before, bringing it to Congress indicates the CIA wanted to do it.. so it'd be like the Pentagon bringing a plan of war against Iran before Congress. Which, IMO, we should not be advocating.
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              • #97
                Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
                I agree...

                edit: Damn your x-posting, MM!
                Tell me about it -- I was responding to your post!
                No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                • #98
                  Originally posted by Sir Ralph
                  Having plans is not wrong. As TMM pointed out, that's what the CIA is supposed to do. But to bring them actively to the Congress is actually an attempt to do it. And in most crimes the attempt alone is already liable to persecution.
                  It isn't an "attempt to do it" in your analogy any more than a petition to legalize drug use is smoking it up.

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                  • #99
                    Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                    Do you really think the CIA goes to Congress with everything? I can bet they didn't do so with Iran-Contra.


                    Well, duh. Wasn't that the entire point?

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                    • Originally posted by Kuciwalker


                      It isn't an "attempt to do it" in your analogy any more than a petition to legalize drug use is smoking it up.
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                      • Originally posted by Sir Ralph
                        Rigging elections is perfectly fine, if it helps to bring democracy to the people of Iraq.
                        Yep, we had to destroy the village in order to save it.

                        You weren't serious, were you?

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                        • I am dead serious.

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                          • Originally posted by The Mad Monk


                            Right, so instead, everyone will believe this is happening, the insurgency will be strengthened, and more of our soldiers will die.
                            And the insurgents were waiting for an article in Time before they would believe we had any intention of "influencing" the choice of future Iraqi governments.

                            If they hadn't read that article, they would have just said "everything's gonna be A-OK, let's just head home."
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                            • If they hadn't read that article, they would have just said "everything's gonna be A-OK, let's just head home."


                              Well duh, MtG .
                              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                              • Evidently, a leopard just can't change it's spots...
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