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#720721 - 04/24/07 03:07 PM
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and some crack flying by billie dee williams I don't recall a drug-related scene in that movie!
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#720732 - 04/24/07 03:12 PM
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Are you actually using a sci fi movie to justify foreign policy? hardly, straw. Should I use Star Trek examples to prove you wrong? it depends on what you are trying to prove. (and be careful because star trek is inherently geeky while star wars is cool )
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#720738 - 04/24/07 03:17 PM
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#720757 - 04/24/07 03:30 PM
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? i explained to j what i was getting at. since i'm a big family guy fan, i speak in pop culture parables like peter griffin does from time to time.
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#720761 - 04/24/07 03:32 PM
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pelosi is not a head of state. Correct, which means Bush would provide this maniac with even greater legitimacy than Pelosi did for Assad. also, perhaps if we recognized an actual LEGITIMATE head of state instead of acting like the perceived imperialists they claim us to be, maybe it could go somewhere. They do not have a legitimate government, Ron. Do you even know what you're talking about?
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#720777 - 04/24/07 03:41 PM
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Ron, he does not govern with the consent of the governed. He is chosen from a list pre-approved by the mullahs. He is not a legitimate head of state. In fact, he's not even a head of state. The "supreme leader" is. I really think you need to stop arguing about things you are ignorant of.
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#720786 - 04/24/07 03:52 PM
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wow, so because their government doesn't function as a democracy, it is illegitimate. No, because the power of the government is not derived from those governed, it is illegitimate. Liberals used to understand this, before BDS took hold.
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#720790 - 04/24/07 03:56 PM
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No, because the power of the government is not derived from those governed, it is illegitimate. i don't disagree that that iran is not a democracy, j. (is that an echo? )
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#720803 - 04/24/07 04:09 PM
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Then don't legitimize that government when you're getting nothing in return.
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#720864 - 04/24/07 05:05 PM
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No, because the power of the government is not derived from those governed, it is illegitimate. i don't disagree that that iran is not a democracy, j. (is that an echo? ) actually, if my memory serves me right, the iraqies turned out in drones to elect.
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#720866 - 04/24/07 05:07 PM
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Funny thing about Admiral Ackabar and his crew defeated and destroyed the Death Star, one Super Star Destroy and nearly the entire Empirial Navy in one swoop. i think han, the force and some crack flying by billie dee williams had a lot to do with that. Yes, General Solo was under the command of Ackbar. Check out the movie again. He says, I'll be happy to serve.
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#721010 - 04/24/07 06:23 PM
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The inconsistant result of your poor analogy.
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#721025 - 04/24/07 06:32 PM
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The inconsistant result of your poor analogy. so i was making an analogy rather than saying that J would say something that amounts to "it's a trap!"?
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#721044 - 04/24/07 06:38 PM
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The sad thing, Ron, is that you think your interests are more allied with Mahmoud than with me. Keep on thinking that.
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#721115 - 04/24/07 07:14 PM
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I don't agree with your appeasment "strategy".
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#721120 - 04/24/07 07:18 PM
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I don't agree with your appeasment "strategy". i don't agree with you calling it an "appeasement strategy". i would call it "negotiating". i don't expect a conservative to blink first though. blinking is inherently weak and this weakness leads to promoting nukes and a worldwide caliphate.
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#721272 - 04/24/07 09:58 PM
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i would call it "negotiating". You have to deal with a rational party for negotiation to work, Ron. What are the mullahs interested in that you are ready to give up?
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#721341 - 04/25/07 01:51 AM
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I don't agree with your appeasment "strategy". i don't agree with you calling it an "appeasement strategy". i would call it "negotiating". i don't expect a conservative to blink first though. blinking is inherently weak and this weakness leads to promoting nukes and a worldwide caliphate. Ron, in a half-way decent situation, of course one would like discourse to be the means of settling disputes. In that case, it would require 2 sides willing to understand the others interests, and work for either a win-win (best case) or compromise (lower case) scenario. What is the interest of the other party? To establish Islamic-based regimes world-wide and dispense with all other religions; to annihilate the nation of Israel; to wipe out our distorted satanic western ideals of liberty, such as woman enjoy here that they do not in nations under Sharia----> all noble causes that are in the U.S.'s and the west's best interests in general, right??!!! So let us get Steven Covey away from his writing desk, and have him negotiate a win-win situation with the peaceful, liberty-loving mullahs of Iran and the honorable benevolent dictator of Syria. Maybe they will stop killing U.S. Soldiers in Iraq with IEDs, and possibly throw in a boon to Israel too by ceasing to fund Hezzbollah. Fair trade-offs, wouldn't you say.
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#721350 - 04/25/07 02:16 AM
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What is the interest of the other party? To establish Islamic-based regimes world-wide and dispense with all other religions; to annihilate the nation of Israel; to wipe out our distorted satanic western ideals of liberty, such as woman enjoy here that they do not in nations under Sharia man, you've got them pegged! although it seems glib, this is completely accurate.
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#721351 - 04/25/07 02:18 AM
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What is the interest of the other party? To establish Islamic-based regimes world-wide and dispense with all other religions; to annihilate the nation of Israel; to wipe out our distorted satanic western ideals of liberty, such as woman enjoy here that they do not in nations under Sharia man, you've got them pegged! although it seems glib, this is completely accurate. Ahh, "Now I see" said the blind man to his deaf wife as his parapalegic son walked to the door.
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