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well.. care to think about the major communist nation that was supplied with
large quantities of US produced arms during WWII? USSR, maybe? Enemy of democracy and all that - but, certainly receptive of the help. My mother stenciled Cyrillic onto aircraft in Buffalo in 1943. "Fly Guy" wrote in message ... DALing wrote: True, US supplying of Iraq was more the issue of "my enemy's enemy is my friend" than anything else. The new rule of thumb: The enemy of my enemy is just another enemy. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:04:47 +0000, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Fly Guy" wrote in message ... Ask the Bush administration. They made it an international objective to force Iraq to prove it did not have WMD. Absurd, yes. Par for the course for this white house? Yes. The Iraqis were required to verify the destruction of their WMD by the cease fire agreement of 1991. Proving that something has been done is not proving a negative. So that was the cause of the war, eh? Wonderful reason to go to war, if you ask me. If you really believe this was the reason (i.e. not a cheap excuse), I got a bridge to seel you. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:58:15 GMT, devil wrote:
In a related subject, today's Wall Street Journal has an interesting summary of the deficit spending which would result if any of the Democrat candidates tax and spending plans were enacted. Not surpisingly it would increase under all of them. I seem to recall that the last democrat ran a surplus. You need to look at it again, the Federal Debt increased by 1.4 trillion dollars under Clinton. Not once during his 8 years did the Federal Debt go down. I'm not saying that Bush is doing any better, but the claim that Clinton ran a surplus is a myth. Just as much a myth as if I got an $800 cash advance on my credit card, payed $600 in bills and then declared a $200 surplus just because I still had $200 when I was done. -- "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:15:57 GMT, devil wrote:
I would go beyond. Close the whole thing down and start from scratch. This is the worse paper-pushing operation after the INS. I'd have to say after the INS and IRS. -- "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:13:57 GMT, devil wrote:
Drop in a bucket. Insignificant. Meanwhile this administration has been borrowing on future generations like there is no tomorrow. Clinton didn't do any better in that regard, increasing the size of the Federal Debt by 31% (1.4 trillion dollars). -- "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft |
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"devil" wrote in message news On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:04:47 +0000, Steven P. McNicoll wrote: "Fly Guy" wrote in message ... Ask the Bush administration. They made it an international objective to force Iraq to prove it did not have WMD. Absurd, yes. Par for the course for this white house? Yes. The Iraqis were required to verify the destruction of their WMD by the cease fire agreement of 1991. Proving that something has been done is not proving a negative. So that was the cause of the war, eh? One of them, yes. |
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"devil" wrote in message news Wonderful reason to go to war, if you ask me. Yes, and I didn't. If you really believe this was the reason (i.e. not a cheap excuse), I got a bridge to seel you. How do you seel a bridge? |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:32:06 +0000, AnotherDeanRampage wrote:
"devil" wrote in message news On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:04:47 +0000, Steven P. McNicoll wrote: "Fly Guy" wrote in message ... Ask the Bush administration. They made it an international objective to force Iraq to prove it did not have WMD. Absurd, yes. Par for the course for this white house? Yes. The Iraqis were required to verify the destruction of their WMD by the cease fire agreement of 1991. Proving that something has been done is not proving a negative. So that was the cause of the war, eh? One of them, yes. I got a bridge... BTW, as far as the UN etc. is concerned, that was supposed not to be "one of" but *the*. Of course, it's always easy to rewrite history, right? When the dishoest "one" falls apart, invent another one. Bottom line is, we all know that this never was anything but a lie. The White House crowd had been talking about going to war since way before the elections. As to *their* reasons, it's also now abundantly clear that they amounted to nothing better than pure unadulterated wishful thinking. With no excuse. |
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