Early U.S. Decisions on Iraq Now Haunt American Efforts

http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB108232780526786049,00.html EXCERPT: *** Early U.S. Decisions on Iraq Now Haunt American Efforts: Officials Let Looters Roam, Disbanded Army, Allowed Radicals to Gain Strength, Failure to Court an Ayatollah By FARNAZ FASSIHI, GREG JAFFE, YAROSLAV TROFIMOV

Re: laundry

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RE: Alternate History

Mike said: > Allow me to bottom line this: all this hindsight 9/11 carping is going > nowhere politically. Dick Clark and Jamie Gorelick (what an unfortunate > last name) will not show the Dhimmicrats the way to victory. So you're saying that neither major party in the US is competent? How reassu

Re: Battlestar Galactica

Robert Seeberger wrote > The channel of course! > SciFi can put out really good shows such as Children Of Dune (Which > was quite excellent I have decided after a few viewings) and then plop > excrement like Riverworld on our plates. Its not necessarily the > networks fault exactly, it appears t

atl: Brinlist = spaminfo center?

Hi all, I was just wondering. I'm beginning to see similarities between spam subjects and some topics I responded to on Brin-l. I'm wondering if the community has become a source of info for target spammers. What I noticed is that when I talked about doing up my garden I got spam from garden i

Re: This time I won't blame Bush

What about workers who put profit over their own lives? Huh? -- Tom Beck my LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tomfodw/ "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the

RE: atl: Brinlist = spaminfo center?

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Iraq and Vietnam

In the following article, conservative opinion columnist makes the somewhat surprising case for the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam. The similarities he offers, however, while obviously having a bit of "gotcha" quality to them, are nevertheless interesting - and I'm interested as to what

Re: 4thReichKlan LGF

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Re: This time I won't blame Bush

At 07:43 AM 4/19/04, Thomas Beck wrote: What about workers who put profit over their own lives? Huh? Such as anyone employed in a risky profession, e.g., coal mining, test pilot, working for Haliburton in Iraq . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.m

RE: Iraq and Vietnam

The current uprising is really a last stand, so to speak, for the insurgents. Despise the numbers of US soldiers being killed, the ratio to insurgents is very high. The methodology of roadside bombs was expensive, and not very effective. To kill enough soldiers to truly demoralize the army is log

victory in Iraq

I recently read an assertion that from a United States point of view: The campaign in Iraq cannot be considered a success until Baghdad becomes the cultural capital of the Arab world, producing not less than 200 Arabic films a year: comedies, family dramas, stories of Arab boys

Re: victory in Iraq

The campaign in Iraq cannot be considered a success until Baghdad becomes the cultural capital of the Arab world, producing not less than 200 Arabic films a year: comedies, family dramas, stories of Arab boys who have triumphed over adversity to become doctors, scientists and e

Congressman Rangel goes Moonie

<> Rangel letter recognizes far-right publisher Sun Myung Moon as the "True Parent" The congressman was the toast of a Moon event Friday. And to think he was just giving such a pretty speech about the right-wing

Re: This time I won't blame Bush

Such as anyone employed in a risky profession, e.g., coal mining, test pilot, working for Haliburton in Iraq . . . That's their personal choice to put themselves in harm's way. People working for a company that deliberately subjects them to danger - only a jerk would argue that it's their p

RE: This time I won't blame Bush

> > What about workers who put profit over their own lives? > > > Huh? Your assumption is that employers are adults and employees are stupid children unable or unwilling to look out for their own best interests. There may be cases where hidden hazards cannot be perceived by employees, but the

RE: Alternate History

Rich, gloomily asked: > So you're saying that neither major party in the US is > competent? How reassuring... Both parties are incompetent in many respects, but I'll limit discussion here to prosecution of the war with Islam. The American people in general did not consider Islamic terrorism to

Re: 4thReichKlan LGF

- Original Message - From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: Re: 4thReichKlan LGF > From: Mike Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Oh, and yes, I'm top posting. It makes sense in this case. Don't make me

Re: This time I won't blame Bush

- Original Message - From: "Mike Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Killer Bs Discussion'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: RE: This time I won't blame Bush > > > What about workers who put profit over their own lives? >From this sentence, it is not clear w

RE: This time I won't blame Bush

> only a jerk would argue that it's their personal choice to work in > hazardous conditions. Only a liberal idiot would think an ad hominem argument like that answers anything. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Amusing Buffy and Angel site

http://www.teaattheford.net/ There *may* be some good points in among the other stuff... "I've started thinking about it as Angel represents the enlightenment (Kant) and Spike represents the polemical counterpunch and refutation to the enlightenment, which is the romantic movement. This fits

Re: Alternate History

Mike Lee wrote: instead of the Massachusetts Munster. Eh? Who? -- Nick Arnett Director, Business Intelligence Services LiveWorld Inc. Phone/fax: (408) 551-0427 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Scouted: Theocracywatch.org

<> A tour of Theocracywatch.org I've mentioned in past articles how valuable I have found Theocracywatch.org as a resource for information on the alliance of the Christian Reconstructionists (Dominionists

10 Acts to Overthrow the Constitution

<> Not one, but 10 bills dealing with 'judicial activism' are introduced. This article is in Human Events, the National Conservative Weekly, so they're in favor of them, of course. However, the article doe

Re: This time I won't blame Bush

Mike Lee wrote: > > > > What about workers who put profit over their own lives? > > > > > > Huh? > > Your assumption is that employers are adults and employees are stupid > children unable or unwilling to look out for their own best interests. > > There may be cases where hidden hazards cannot b

Re: City Journal on changes in culture

It is worth noting that the data in this article contradicts the data from an earlier abstinence-only education study, which I posted here (while identifying it as looking "suspicious.")As you might recal, that study found that teen sexual activity rates were, IIRC, between 80-98%. >From this

Re: This time I won't blame Bush

Mike Lee wrote: > > > only a jerk would argue that it's their personal choice to work in > > hazardous conditions. > > Only a liberal idiot would think an ad hominem argument like that answers > anything. That's really brilliant -- counter an ad hominem argument with another one. Scratch brilli

Re: Alternate History

Nick Arnett wrote: > > Mike Lee wrote: > > > instead of the Massachusetts > > Munster. > > Eh? Who? I think he means Kerry. "Massachusetts" is the giveaway. I'm wondering how he got "Munster". Unless it's a reference to some TV show however long ago? Please fill us in, Mike! Juli

Re: Alternate History

At 11:07 PM 4/19/04, Julia Thompson wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: > > Mike Lee wrote: > > > instead of the Massachusetts > > Munster. > > Eh? Who? I think he means Kerry. "Massachusetts" is the giveaway. I'm wondering how he got "Munster". Unless it's a reference to some TV show however long ago?