Post #182,737
11/4/04 7:17:08 AM
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Incontheevable!
Yeah, [link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3981307.stm|right].
Peter
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Post #182,747
11/4/04 9:09:34 AM
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At the moment it is
We gave the bombs to Isreal, so we won't have to do the bombing ourselves.
Jay
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Post #182,750
11/4/04 9:22:20 AM
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The article mentions using Israel as a proxy.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #182,791
11/4/04 12:42:40 PM
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Missed that bit
I missed the bit about using Israel as a proxy.
If he can't conceive of the US using Israel as a proxy he has some sort of serious mental problem. I wonder if he can conceive of the sky being blue or walls being solid.
I'm guessing though that the word he meant to use was "inavoidable."
Jay
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Post #182,751
11/4/04 9:23:15 AM
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I do not think that word means what he thinks it does.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #182,787
11/4/04 12:26:25 PM
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The US invent history
Three years ago, the idea of invading Iraq was inconceivable.
Matthew Greet
But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie and we must be merciful to those who lie.
- Colonol Kurtz, Apocalypse Now.
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Post #182,812
11/4/04 1:32:29 PM
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What, 10 years after the 1st time?
We already had invaded Iraq. Hard to undo that or consider it inconceiveable since we were flying over and bombing them for years...before this "neocon junta"
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #183,010
11/5/04 6:26:13 AM
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Re: What, 10 years after the 1st time?
Three years ago, the bombing and sanctions were criticised for being gung-ho and too damaging to the Iraqi populace. The US and UK governments claimed this was to punish Saddam for not complying with weapon inspectors. There never was any talk that he might be a threat to anyone or that military containment wasn't working. Three years ago, Saddam and terrorism meant Saddam terrorising his own people.
Matthew Greet
But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie and we must be merciful to those who lie.
- Colonol Kurtz, Apocalypse Now.
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Post #183,024
11/5/04 9:22:09 AM
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Disengenuousness, thy name is BeeP?
Calling a course of action "inconceivable" in the course of analysing it is the same rhetorical device as saying "not to mention" right before mentioning something.
Yes, 14 years ago, in the middle of a spectacularly successful debellatio of Saddam's army, and with every prospect of clear sailing for more than half a million troops all the way to Kurdistan if we had wanted, invading and occupying Iraq was deemed "inconceivable" in that same rhetorical sense.
When you work with emotionally disturbed adolescents and the first words out of a new patients mouth are "I'm not gonna hurt you", the feeling you get is not reassurance.
Giovanni
There's no fuel like an oil fuel
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Post #183,027
11/5/04 9:24:03 AM
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I didn't say you were fat!
..I'm just saying you could lose a few pounds!
(hilarious Paul Reiser routine)
-drl
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Post #183,028
11/5/04 9:25:11 AM
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LRPDx2!
"There's no fuel like an oil fuel"
"When you work with emotionally disturbed adolescents and the first words out of a new patients mouth are "I'm not gonna hurt you", the feeling you get is not reassurance."
ROFL!
-drl
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Post #182,822
11/4/04 1:50:43 PM
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Translation, please...
I take it, Peter, that "full stop" is Brit for "period"?
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #182,933
11/4/04 7:51:14 PM
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Referring to punctuation, yes.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #182,997
11/5/04 1:15:22 AM
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s/Brit/English/ :-p
As opposed to whateverthefuckitis you mofos speak over there.
Peter
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Post #183,145
11/5/04 5:53:35 PM
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Whateverthefsck indeed!
Regardless of whatever name (perjoritave or otherwise) you which to call it, the language we mofos speak is far more understandable than the language you mofos speak!
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #183,211
11/6/04 1:18:26 AM
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Riiiiight.
That’d be one of your subliminable messages right there.
Anyway, this here thread reminded of this one at K5:
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/7/18/143516/088/49#49|http://www.kuro5hin..../143516/088/49#49]
Peter
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Post #183,425
11/8/04 4:17:55 AM
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the mother(fscking) tongue
Sorry, jb4, but I have to agree with your signature rather than with your post. If we are to judge by the election results, a bare majority of our voting citizens speak Shrubbish.
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #183,504
11/8/04 1:51:59 PM
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Good point...I reluctantly withdraw my comment :-(
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #183,427
11/8/04 5:17:08 AM
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Don
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #183,428
11/8/04 5:17:14 AM
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Don't tease the animals, Peter. ;-)
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #182,834
11/4/04 2:40:52 PM
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Straw taking lessons from Baghdad Bob?
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