Re:Military Might
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DNS-and-BIND
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That's what happens when you send draftees in to do a soldier's job. The U.S. military stopped using conscription after Vietnam, due to the fact that units composed of these soldiers repeatedly failed in their missions. In addition, their poor discipline resulted in occasional atrocities. European militaries still persist with this outdated tradition for some strange reason.
Of course, if the conscript troops had spotted any submarines, the Swedish would have probably just blamed America. They had a long tradition of turning a blind eye to systematic Soviet provocations and instead blaming NATO forces...for example the famous Whiskey on the Rocks incident.
-- Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I agree completely. The war just ended recently, and we haven't exactly been able to search while the whole place was a war zone. Once things settle down, we'll be able to do a thorough search, and I assure you that they will find WMDs. Saddam's spent a decade unsupervised, and very pissed at a number of countries, expecially America and Israel. I find it very difficult to believe that he hasn't been spending any time and money on creating weapons. Not to mention, the government would not want to release it right away. First they would conduct a thorough investigation to make sure that what they found really was WMDs, that they were commissioned by Saddam, and that they posed a threat to us or our allies. Furthermore -- OH MY GOD, THEY FOUND WEAPONS! HA, EAT SHIT, LIBERALS!
Damnit, it was just fertilizer.
Does anyone actually take the times seriously
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McAddress
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After last week, does anyone take the NYT seriously anymore. Sure, today its sattelite images, tommorow they'll try to convince us that the patriot act is a bad thing, and then they'll try to tell us that we kind of failed in Afganistan..
damn, hold on a second......
Re:Google Partner Link
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evilviper
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My thanks to the man who is too lazy to type "o" twice in a row...
You'll have to forgive me, I get confused by all those tiny European countries whose security has been guaranteed by the U.S. Isn't Finland the European country that freely allied itself with Nazi Germany? Or maybe they're the ones who surrendered after a few weeks' resistance...maybe that was Belgium or Denmark or France or the Netherlands or Greece. I'm sorry, I received an American public school education, please excuse me if I learned my facts wrong.
-- Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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Of course, if the conscript troops had spotted any submarines, the Swedish would have probably just blamed America. They had a long tradition of turning a blind eye to systematic Soviet provocations and instead blaming NATO forces...for example the famous Whiskey on the Rocks incident.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I agree completely. The war just ended recently, and we haven't exactly been able to search while the whole place was a war zone. Once things settle down, we'll be able to do a thorough search, and I assure you that they will find WMDs. Saddam's spent a decade unsupervised, and very pissed at a number of countries, expecially America and Israel. I find it very difficult to believe that he hasn't been spending any time and money on creating weapons. Not to mention, the government would not want to release it right away. First they would conduct a thorough investigation to make sure that what they found really was WMDs, that they were commissioned by Saddam, and that they posed a threat to us or our allies. Furthermore -- OH MY GOD, THEY FOUND WEAPONS! HA, EAT SHIT, LIBERALS!
Damnit, it was just fertilizer.
damn, hold on a second ......
My thanks to the man who is too lazy to type "o" twice in a row...
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You'll have to forgive me, I get confused by all those tiny European countries whose security has been guaranteed by the U.S. Isn't Finland the European country that freely allied itself with Nazi Germany? Or maybe they're the ones who surrendered after a few weeks' resistance...maybe that was Belgium or Denmark or France or the Netherlands or Greece. I'm sorry, I received an American public school education, please excuse me if I learned my facts wrong.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!