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Rufus sits back and waits for Fez to praise US action in El Salvador and defend death squads
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Gotta love how the supporters of the guerilla will are pondered as potential targets as well. This is the best way to have Iraq enter a bloody and very long civil war, under the guidance of people as wise and democratic as Allawi (loyalists) and some Saddam's nostalgic (rebels)
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- DisComment
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It's absolute idiocy, but then again what should we expect from the US administration, which has shown at every turn that it is staffed by semiliterate paranoids?Only feebs vote.Comment
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They are going to turn moderate Muslims into extremists in no time.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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Absolutely. We must take this option. This is the best thing ever thought up, and I'm pleased the Pentagon is considering it.For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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I predict that if it happens, every conservative journalist in America will praise America's "mercy" and "compassion".
And they wonder why educated people think they are idiots.Only feebs vote.Comment
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Oddly, doing this stuff doesn't seem to hurt our image. The US has extremely high favorability ratings in El Salvador.Jesus Christ... if it ends up like El Salvador did, God help the Iraqis.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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This "Salvador option" would be a big mistake. 1) It will hurt our image with the Iraqis who want peace. Saddam used death squads. If we use a similar techniques many Iraqis will fear that we are no different than Saddam. 2) Who controls these "death squads"? Whose to say that they won't start whacking people we don't want them to?'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"Comment
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American critics are largely dead.Comment
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diplo: How then are we to proceed with the assumption of the majority to their political rights? The very small minority does not appear to want to settle for their fair share (small) of power.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I hope the Pentagon considers, and then rejects this course of action. But I've hoped for several things lately and have watched the opposite happen, so I won't be surprised if this is approved.
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-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Arrian: Short of death squads, do you have any ideas about a reasonably just solution to this problem of the minority not settling for their proper share of power?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I don't think there is an easy just solution, and I do not have any brilliant ideas, no.
I think our troops and the Iraqi government are going to have to simply continue to absorb attacks for a while, while responding in as focused a manner as possible (in other words, avoid collective punishment). My hope is that the new elected government will make a high-profile effort to bring the Sunnis into the political process, but even that might not succeed.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Splitting up "Iraq" into seperate countries works for me. It's not real unified country anyway--never has been, except through the will of tyrants.Originally posted by DanS
Arrian: Short of death squads, do you have any ideas about a reasonably just solution to this problem of the minority not settling for their proper share of power?
"Death Squads" are outrageously immoral. How can you even think of approving of them?Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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Yeah, right, introduce democracy by using death squads against the opposition. Enjoy the freedom!So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
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