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2002-11-20 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 19 Nov 2002 at 15:45, Tyler Durden wrote: Mikey: I would suggest tangling with Chomsky for a bit. Start with... http://zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11ItemID=2 312 Chomsky is a liar. His citations are mostly fraudulent, and he has at one time or another defended every

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Jim Dixon
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: Let's have some history here. The Muslims have not been at war against the Israelites since Biblical times. That is completely wrong. Hell, there haven't been any Israelites for nearly two millenia. More to the point, there were no Muslims in

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Mike Diehl
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:30 pm, Jim Dixon wrote: More to the point, there were no Muslims in Biblical times. The Muslims appeared around 600 years after Christ, centuries after the beginning of the Jewish diaspora. The Romans drove the Jews out of Jerusalem and

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
I believe that it is generally accepted that until quite recently, in historical terms, the Jews fared much better under the Muslims than the Christians. Actually, there's no comparison. Although there have been exceptions, the Muslims' track record is MUCH better than the Christians. Take

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
In school yard politics this edge is normally a weapon of some sort that can equalize the playing field (guns usually in the US, try going to an inner city public school for 2 years). Saddam sees this and that is what let him to develop those WMD, to equalize against a superior foe / bully A

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2002-11-20 Thread Mike Diehl
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:06 pm, Trei, Peter wrote: Mike Diehl[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote You don't deny either of my surmises about your experience or lack thereof. I didn't find them relevent. My understanding of the facts doesn't matter. I was LOOKING for the

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, they have enough non-central leadership to all be against Israel and the US. And to have been at war against the Israelies since Bible times... OK, Mike, this is a good example of the kind of facts that lead to fairly easy (though erroneous) conclusions. Let's have some history here.

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: I just hope that Americans see this, and see that what they're going to get from this behavior isn't world domination, but either a genocide of half the planet, or a life in a bared wire world, with no freedom left, in a vain attempt to protect

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
Israeli tanks aren't the ONLY things that kill someone's kids. The whole region has been at war for 100's of years. If Israel backed You do realize that the whole world has been at war for hundreds of years, do you ? Israel is now the bully in the region, and is conforted in keeping this

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Trei, Peter
Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: In school yard politics this edge is normally a weapon of some sort that can equalize the playing field (guns usually in the US, try going to an inner city public school for 2 years). Saddam sees this and that is what let him to develop

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2002-11-19 Thread Mike Diehl
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 01:18 pm, Trei, Peter wrote: If you think 'the Muslims' are your enemy, then you have a problem. I never said that they were MY enemy. 'The Muslims' are not a monolithic group, and have no central leadership. This is a bit like

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-19 Thread Trei, Peter
Mike Diehl[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes [much snippage] . No, I think the Muslims need to back down, or be forced to. [more snippage] If you think 'the Muslims' are your enemy, then you have a problem. 'The Muslims' are not a monolithic group, and

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Mikey: I would suggest tangling with Chomsky for a bit. Start with... http://zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11ItemID=2312 And then go from there. I have to agree with Peter Trei that your arguments sound pretty pre-packaged and freeze-dried, very similar to the pablum the American

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-14 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
How can anyone claim that the U.S. or Israel or corporations or rich Americans are morally worse than the likes of Hussein? ...I have to bow to the urge to answer Note that everything that was proposed is bombing. Killing innocents, in an attempt to make them revolt and overthrow their