Dave C

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'The War Is Not Over'

Wow—Don’t know where this came from. The most powerful Black man in the history of the planet is an American. They say you can tell a country by its heroes and the only American citizen with a holiday named after him is Martin Luther King. The highest paid actor in the US is Will Smith and the highest paid female entertainer is Oprah Winfrey. Blacks have always been good for this country and in the last 50 years this country has been good for blacks. Even Mohammed Ali said he was glad his ancestors “caught that boat”. We are very close with a gay couple and they have a domestic partnership which gives them every right that married couples have. They have brought up the gay marriage on the ballot time after time and the people have voted it down. That’s not oppression, that’s democracy.  (Aug 11, 2009 | post #194766)

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I’m behind you all the way Brain Damaged. Send the Canadian military to Israel (I think UPS delivers) and kick the crap out of those Jews and tell them they don’t belong there. I think you would get an ass whoopin that would make the Palestinians laugh. It would be a lovely war.  (Aug 11, 2009 | post #194752)

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Don’t take it too personal, my last name is Scottish, but far more of my ancestors live in Ireland than Scotland. We traced our family history back and the first European ancestors got here in 1690 and as my mother likes to point out we had other ancestors who watched them land—“there goes the neighborhood”. No need to go into the whole “Paddy wagon” thing.  (Aug 11, 2009 | post #194741)

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Do you remember a little country called Kuwait? Substitute Kuwait with Ossetia and we are back to similarities. My question remains why the double standard? Why so pro-Russia and anti-American?  (Aug 11, 2009 | post #194737)

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You know what they say. "God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from conquering the world". Drinkin and thinkin is nearly as dangerous as drinkin and drivin. I hope someone has taken your keys.  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194682)

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I do have to admit we did turn our back on an ally once. South Vietnam and it was the most cowardly act in American history. I’m surprised at how little recrimination we received for that betrayal--it probably didn't even cross your mind. That cost us dearly, because of it the Saudis made us promise that as long as Saddam was a threat we wouldn’t cut and run as we did in SE Asia. Because we kept that promise, 3000 Americans died on 9/11, but we still kept that promise. Outside of that we have never turned our backs on an ally—not even an oil free one like South Korea. And it is a damned lie that Saddam was ever an ally. My other question remains. Why the double standard? Why are you happy that the Russians invaded Georgia and so against our invading Iraq?  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194680)

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'The War Is Not Over'

I’m curious as to when you Canadian Leftist are going to get off your dead asses and do something about the world. All I hear you do is whine and complain about the US. You seem to think that if you simply rebuilt America in your image then all will be right with the world and it simply is not the case. At some point people have to do more than whine and complain. You have to view the world in realistic terms and face it head on. The fact that the majority of Americans are doers and not whiners and complainers is why we are not a Leftist country.  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194652)

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I thought Bill Maher was a Libertarian??????? Bill Maher shouldn’t be complaining then. You can’t vote for Obama and then hope he becomes Nader.  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194650)

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Al Qaeda has had other tricks, the African embassies, the USS Cole. The idea of using hijacked planes was known about for years before 9/11, even before Bush was elected. I wonder why Clinton never added air marshals or had the cabin doors reinforced. I would say the answer would be total incompetency-if I was biased.  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194647)

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How can you say that is not true? Nader got 738,720 votes which would be less than 1% of the votes cast. Even if 3 times that many people were to the left of Nader that would still put more than 95% of Americans to the right of Nader. You don’t believe in facts at all do you?  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194640)

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'The War Is Not Over'

Its funny (in a way) that 5 Iranian students decided on a 3 to 2 vote to protest at the American embassy rather than the Soviet embassy simply because they thought they would get more publicity at the American embassy. Things got out of hand and because of their decision Iranian children begin their school day with chants of “death to America”.  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194634)

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I read this one, but that was about it. http://www.guardia n.co.uk/technology /2009/aug/03/gener al-sir-mike-jackso n-mobile-phone  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194633)

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I was referring to international terrorist attacks against the US—such as 9/11. The CIA would not be involved in preventing or investigating domestic terrorism. The fact that we haven’t been hit with a major attack since 9/11, would point to the success of the Dept. of Homeland Security and a lot of luck.  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194632)

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I’m sorry I thought Great Britain and the United Kingdom were the same thing, please provide the distinction. We shook hands with the Soviets, the North Vietnamese, the Chinese communist, and even the North Koreans at one point or another, it didn’t mean we were friends. International sources for technology and chemical precursors The know-how and material for developing chemical weapons were obtained by Saddam's regime from foreign firms.[16] By far, the largest suppliers of precursors for chemical weapons production were in Singapore (4,515 tons), the Netherlands (4,261 tons), Egypt (2,400 tons), India (2,343 tons), and West Germany (1,027 tons). One Indian company, Exomet Plastics (now part of EPC Industrie Ltd.) sent 2,292 tons of precursor chemicals to Iraq. The Kim Al-Khaleej firm, located in Singapore and affiliated to United Arab Emirates, supplied more than 4,500 tons of VX, sarin, and mustard gas precursors and production equipment to Iraq.[17] http://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Halabja _poison_gas_attack BTW—Saddam did invade Saudi Arabia—Khafgi Again, it is a simple question. Who do you feel was worse the President of Georgia or Saddam?  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194631)

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About 95% of Americans are to the right of Nader.  (Aug 10, 2009 | post #194622)