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CraigR
CraigR
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Re: Hail to the Defenders of Civilization!
Jan 23, 2002, 18:24
Like I said, do certain things then you shouldn't have rights. Each case on it's merits.

Enough of the argument anyway, agree to disagree!
CraigR
CraigR
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Re: Hail to the Defenders of Civilization!
Jan 23, 2002, 18:24
Like I said, do certain things then you shouldn't have rights. Each case on it's merits.

Enough of the argument anyway, agree to disagree!
CraigR
CraigR
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Re: 'Idiot Bastard Sons'
Jan 23, 2002, 18:27
>But imagine an army where a bunch of soldiers said >at the moment of departure to erase some faraway >poor fuckers' village off the face of the earth >because the suits had located the name on a paper >map - 'eh, sir, we don't think it's a good idea >because a lot of innocents...'.

I think they maybe slightly more proffesional than that.
cHARLIE
cHARLIE
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Re: Hey Charlie ...
Jan 23, 2002, 21:11
Never NeVeR U wiLL nEvEr make meeeeE dOo iT!
yErM8 YarLian*
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caergog
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Re: I amRicH*
Jan 23, 2002, 23:20
I'm holding your hand all the way to bristol mungral to mungral (good job too thoroughbreds often get nasty illnesses). For me the best way is i have two worlds the little one here and the big one out there which i keep an eye on and i wish i could wave a wand and change it all sometimes, but i'm only a little person in my little world. But often small changes in lots of little worlds lead to big changes in the big world,I hope.
love
carolinexx
Annexus Quam
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Re: 'Idiot Bastard Sons'
Jan 23, 2002, 23:40
Well, not sure about the number, but 6,000 innocent civilians dead without capturing those they really wanted to capture (i.e. the terrorist elite) is quite un-professional methinks.

Not that I ever thought they would do any better than that!

And a couple of villages were wiped out, which the US army keep in top secret files under the headline 'the talibans were supposed to be hiding there but they fled just before the planes arrived'. Better to be on the safe side and erase the whole village off the map, just in case, anyway (the US army general must have said from his bunker/office in Fort Bollocks or whereever). It's just another name for him, the villagers just numbers. As well as not American. And he's never going to meet the targets before he orders to pull the trigger.

It's funny how opinions change when you think how much American citizens were mourned when they were massacred, now it's villages in Afghanistan and nobody notices. And no boards asking for blood. Their lives' worth in dollars in comparison is ridiculous so why bother?

This so-called 'new' war is just *another* one designed to assuage american public opinion - nobody honestly believed 'terrorism will be crushed' - but the president and his professional team just had to do something nasty 'somewhere else', practise a bit of high-tech carpet bombing for the TV screens and capture a few talibans so as to show their compatriots 'I've been there' and done the deed. Let's admit it, 'something needs to be done' - the question is...what? the old-fashioned way or try something new? nah, let's do it the old-fashioned way, it's safer, it's TV-proof and the president will have more chances to be re-elected.

Isn't this professional politics? If I was a politician, I certainly wouldn't go for a forward thinking NEW revolutionary solution to terrorism. My mates would laugh at me, say I am not a patriot, and say I just don't have the guts. And I'd have to resign and become a part-time moaner in some obscure site.
cancer boy
cancer boy
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Re: Hail to the Defenders of Civilization!
Jan 24, 2002, 09:33
>agree to disagree!

No worries, bit of an echo in here though!
caergog
393 posts

american media
Jan 24, 2002, 13:23
I just wondered if anyone knows what the american media and also people are saying about all this.
carolinex
cancer boy
cancer boy
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Re: american media
Jan 24, 2002, 13:47
By the end of last week, not a lot. Radio 4's PM programme stated that there was little coverage because the general population weren't interested. Haven't heard since then, maybe things will pick up now that some of us decadent old-world types have been complaining so vocally.
caergog
393 posts

Re: american media
Jan 24, 2002, 13:56
I saw very briefly on ceefax last night that the new set of prisoners due to arrive in cuba have been delayed due to up grading and expanding of facilitys, but it was stated by america that this is in no way linked to protests(!).
carolinex
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