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Offline Toad

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« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2004, 12:43:37 PM »
Too funny, Milo.

Time for another lunch, I'm thinking. Next Friday maybe?
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« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2004, 12:47:04 PM »
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Milo I must object to your use of the term "eh ?"

That is distinctly Canadian and as such is not to be used lightly.
I hereby request that you remove it and replace it with something more to your geographical region.

Thanx.


Ok, I will put my best arrogent bastartized French accent on it

"La eh ?"
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« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2004, 12:51:28 PM »
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Too funny, Milo.

Time for another lunch, I'm thinking. Next Friday maybe?


Sure, Rude talked about it last nite.  The markets have been screaming but I will try to make it.
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Offline MJHerman

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« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2004, 12:54:52 PM »
Can someone fill me in on this "Syrian connection" which keeps getting referred to?

If the missing WMD are in Syria:

(a) How is it that U.S. intelligence didn't see them being moved out across the border?

(b) If they are there, how come no one is kicking in doors in Damascus?  Is Assad suddenly a "good" dictator?
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« Reply #19 on: January 29, 2004, 12:55:11 PM »
Thats acceptable, but only because Im not French :)
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« Reply #20 on: January 29, 2004, 12:58:17 PM »
Leading up to the war there was a lot of traffick back and forth between Iraq and Syria.
 The lack of weapons in Iraq is causing some to state they were moved into Syria to hide them.
 Thats it in a nutshell.
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« Reply #21 on: January 29, 2004, 01:05:14 PM »
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Leading up to the war there was a lot of traffick back and forth between Iraq and Syria.
 The lack of weapons in Iraq is causing some to state they were moved into Syria to hide them.
 Thats it in a nutshell.


My question to that would be:

We have satellites that can see corn in your poop, even how hot that corn is...why couldn't we see the WMD being transported across the border?"
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #22 on: January 29, 2004, 01:05:41 PM »
I believe that a decade, give or take a year or two, will have to pass before the overthrow of Saddam can be judged as the truly right thing to do or as a terrible mistake.  The short term results seem so transient.  It will take years for me to make a definitive call.  WMDs? Liberation? Regional and Global transformation towards human rights and self determination? 9/11 vrs Islam vrs Arab religious militant fanatacism?? Saudi Arabia,  Hatred of all things western (Christian) for generations?  Wtf??

Without those many years having passed my gut instinct tells me removing Hussein was the right thing to do, at the right time.

5 Americans?
500 Americans?
5,000 Americans?
50,000 Americans?
500,000 Americans?
5,000,000 Amercians?
50,000,000 Amercians

When do we want to call it quits?
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« Reply #23 on: January 29, 2004, 01:10:20 PM »
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Leading up to the war there was a lot of traffick back and forth between Iraq and Syria.
 The lack of weapons in Iraq is causing some to state they were moved into Syria to hide them.
 Thats it in a nutshell.


That still doesn't answer the question.  Assuming the traffic was the moving of all the WMD, how come the Marines aren't kicking butt in Syria?

And does this theory also assume that the Israelis are OK with having WMD right next door?

Of course, the lack of WMD in Iraq has many, many explanations.........
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« Reply #24 on: January 29, 2004, 01:18:14 PM »
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Yeager:
5 Americans?
500 Americans?
5,000 Americans?
50,000 Americans?
500,000 Americans?
5,000,000 Amercians?
50,000,000 Amercians

When do we want to call it quits?


What do these numbers mean yeager? The number of lives its ok to lose to remove SH?? When do we quit?? Quit what??
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« Reply #25 on: January 29, 2004, 01:23:04 PM »
Hey Im not arguing validity here. Just the story as I understand it.
If you want sources I will look them up.
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« Reply #26 on: January 29, 2004, 01:26:52 PM »
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Hey Im not arguing validity here. Just the story as I understand it.
If you want sources I will look them up.


Thanks for the offer on the sources, but don't worry about it.  I just find it a bit far fetched.  I remember hearing the "traffic to Syria" story, but since no one kept hammering it home (particularly Dubya), I just chalked it up to uncertain information at the time and nothing that anyone was taking too seriously.

I mean Syria didn't even make the "Axis of Evil" list :D
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« Reply #27 on: January 29, 2004, 01:28:39 PM »
So they managed to hide thousands of liters of chemical weapons and yet saddam hussain was living in a dirt hole in the ground and was found ?
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #28 on: January 29, 2004, 01:29:42 PM »
I guess I was thinking along two lines:  

1) If a thing is worth one life or 5 to defend or accomplish, why is it not worth 50?  if its worth 500 why would it not be worth 5000?  and on and on....

2) At what point would a person, or a nation, decide to surrender to avoid complete destruction?
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« Reply #29 on: January 29, 2004, 01:29:47 PM »
Nah, ping, I was just reiterating what I said when that story first broke.
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