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erika
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: "the high up north"
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...and the only freedoms that it threatened were the freedoms Bush took away when it happened.
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Super Intendent
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Arlington, VA
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1. To drive Americans and American influence out of all Muslim nations (especially Saudi Arabia) - the US government cannot control the influence of American media and businessmen in the Middle East; 2. Destroy Israel - were not going to allow that to happen; 3. Topple pro-Western dictatorships around the Middle East - again, not going to allow this. Osama Bin Laden has also said that he wishes to unite all Muslims and establish, by force if necessary, an Islamic nation adhering to the rule of the first Caliphs. At a minimum, he wants the 'traditional' Islamic nations (those that were under Islamic control in the 8th century) to become one - to include north Africa and portions of southern Europe, such as portions of Spain. Quote:
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Southern California
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I'm beginning to think that if DanaC is a fair example of European leftist opinion on the matter, then Dick Cheney was right about Old Europe: they really are exhausted, vitiated, and quite helpless in this clash, and we ought not to expect much help from that quarter winning the war against a lot of shitheaded antidemocratic bigots.
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King Of Wishful Thinking
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Posts: 6,669
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I think it was very nice of the British to help out in Afghanistan and very stupid of them to help us in Iraq. Personally, if our positions were reversed, I would have had no problem with an American president contributing a small portion of the forces in Afghanistan. Heck, we did it in the Balkans. But if Blair had made the arguments that Bush had made and asked us to back a British invasion of Iraq, I'd like to think any US president other than GWB would have been smart enough to decline. Sometimes I think there should be an IgNobel prize, a kind of anti-Nobel prize similar to the Razzies versus the Oscars. Someplace to recognize the truly worst accomplishments in politics, arts, science, etc. I have a few suggestions for charter recipients.
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
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Not all of Berkeley agrees with the city council.
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