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Lessons not learned
The pile of "mea culpas" from war advocates demonstrates how little has changed in their thinking.
Glenn Greenwald [2008-03-20]
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  • Check out Sr. Settembrini... When In Roma?

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    Settembrini

    Rome

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    Open Mondays through Saturdays 1 to 3 pm and 8 to 11 pm, September through July.

    -- Gordon Ginsberg
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    Friday, March 21, 2008 09:49 AM

  • If you're going to misquote someone, Bucky

    ...at least have the decency to use square brackets, since they denote "your" words, and not the other person's. Your use of parentheses made your "quote" look as if that was what I had typed, when I, in fact, did not.

    You should have typed:

    Thanks, Kitt [for defending murder].

    -- Anonymust
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    Friday, March 21, 2008 11:05 AM

  • Gordon

    Oh, I have no disagreements with Settembrini, Gordon. In fact, I like that voice so well, it reminds me of another voice I've come to look forward to.

    -- bystander
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    Friday, March 21, 2008 11:45 AM

  • Yes, bystander, my friend

    one who similarly morphs throughout the day, cuts and pastes,...

    -- Gordon Ginsberg
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    Friday, March 21, 2008 12:10 PM

  • bucky1

    The small exchange you quote shows you can Google a bit; but if you read history books you will find that Goering was talking about getting any country into a war in the quote you were first talking about.

    -- bucky1

    Search engines on the internet are tools. Many people use those tools for many fine purposes. Only a person who is being obnoxious and rude would scoff at a person for using the tool of search engines.

    I've read and continue to read history books. But, of course, that was just another rude and uncalled for insult from you. Nonetheless, no one needs a history book in the case of finding the context of the Goering quote. By the way, where did you paste the quote from, a search engine?

    The link below tells the back story of the quote. I found it using a search engine, a fact that doesn't make the information laughable or worthy of your contempt.

    http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp

    -- Kitt
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    Friday, March 21, 2008 04:31 PM

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