Post #231,564
10/30/05 6:45:43 PM
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You really *are* on planet Brandioch.
Dude, there's been an election and a constitution ratified in a landslide. Saddam is on trial for his life. Our casualty rates are trending down for a while now, theirs are trending up, and Iraqi troops are increasingly fighting to exterminate the insurgents from *their* country.
Did you hear there was less terrorism at the ratification vote than at the election? There's your census. They're going extinct.
What I said before I still say now. And any rational, honest appraisal of the facts will back me up. But I wouldn't expect that from you.
Keep up the rah-rah for your favorite bloodthirsty thugs. Wave them pom-poms, and sheik yerbouti. It doesn't make a difference. They're still dropping like flies. And Iraq is a free nation, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Post #231,568
10/30/05 7:07:13 PM
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Ummm . . . you oughta pass that stuff you're smok'n around.
The constitution was overwhelmingly rejected in two major provences and squeeked by in one on a technicality (55% voted against). The vote was sharply sectarian and the fact that Kurdistan and Shiits voted the same way doesn't mean they agree, they're just both out for vengence against the Sunnis.
Give it a couple of years and there won't even be an Iraq, it'll be Kurdistan, Sunniland and West Iran (incorporating Kuwait).
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Post #231,576
10/30/05 7:45:40 PM
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You don't want what bot smoke. Shoulda seen what it did to
My Gramma - brain jump-indirect-to-self loopiness, chilblains, throat h\ufffdmorrhoids. Nasty stuff.
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Post #231,630
10/31/05 7:12:19 AM
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And don't forget the Turks...
They're very allergic to anything resembling "Kurdistan" in any way, shape or form.
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Post #231,631
10/31/05 7:20:30 AM
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Someone should tell them the Armenians was enough.
They don't get any more tries at genocide; that's limited to one try per nation.
(And some people think they should be in the European Union?!? They're not even in *Europe*, ferfuckssake!)
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Post #231,675
10/31/05 11:59:01 AM
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Part of Turkey is in Europe
Istanbul is right on the dividing line.
OK, a pretty arbitrary dividing line, but it is the traditional one.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #231,692
10/31/05 12:41:13 PM
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But where's Constantinople?
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Post #231,696
10/31/05 12:56:54 PM
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right accross the strait from byzanteum
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Post #231,713
10/31/05 2:28:30 PM
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So if you've a date in Constantinople...
... she'll be waiting in Istanbul.
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-scott anderson
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Post #231,718
10/31/05 3:07:31 PM
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Yuo wins teh intarweb!
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Post #231,837
11/1/05 3:50:50 AM
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Yeah, yeah... So what are you trying to prove; that you...
...can be just as much of a pilkunnussija as I am, or...?
It's an insignificantly tiny part of Turkey that is in Europe(*); *half* the ancient city that is *not* their capital any more is in Europe.
But you knew that, so WTF are you quibbling about?
(*): So, sure, let's make them *partly* members of the EU -- to an insignificantly tiny partial degree.
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Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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Post #231,590
10/30/05 9:02:24 PM
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freedom is as freedom d'ohs
Quoth the bot, spitting from beneath its accustomed stone: And Iraq is a free nation, and there's nothing you can do about it. You might want to run that one by the distaff side: they l-u-u-v the new dress code! Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #231,605
10/30/05 10:46:13 PM
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'I know that you and Frank are trying to disconnect me.. jpg
and I'm afraid I cannot allow that to happen.
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It remains unclear how the sentient should 'treat' the robot (or its mindset).
Personally, I prefer - it's a tool.
Sharpen it or complete its dulling, lest the blade damage something useful?
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