Letters to the Editor
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@Omooex and LWM
Omooex: Your "Egypt had every right to kick out the UN peacekeepers" says it all, as far as where you're coming from. I'll leave it there.
LWM: I DID say "I don't know." Right there in the comment you were responding to, I said "I don't know what happened." If you go back and check, you'll see it.
Take care all.
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@ quickstrategy
I remember an academic article called "MAD vs. NUTS", which compared Mutually Assured Destruction to Nuclear Utilitaztion Theory Strategies (i.e., "No, we really CAN use those nukes and not end the world ... and here's how we'll do it!").
The NUTS are currently in charge......but you knew that.
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@ quickstrategy & PDA
Great Tits Cope Well With Warming --
Gawd bless the Mother Country. --
As well as the Beeb and dry Brit humor. ;-}
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@Strangely Enough
the Nicaraguan tank divisions that were just days away from the Texas border...
Those were the ones filled with killer bees, right?
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COMMENT #291 and COUNTING
I found this post by Glenn Greenwald to be terrific! Not only because I share his disdain for lying, conniving neocon chickenhawks, but also because it was well-written and researched. The criminal Bush Administration relies on people forgetting what was said; hiding behind classified documents; subterfuge; flat-out lies; a hidden propaganda machine; and many more instruments of deception. For someone to show outright that a leading neocon commentator and former high-ranking official is repeatedly lying and spewing contradictory postures on such a monumentally important issue (such as WAR) he (Greenwald) should be celebrated for casting light where there once was shadows.
With all the deception over the past 7 years, it is getting increasinly difficult to parse out truth from reality. I appreciate serious journalists who are doing their homework and compiling this sort of information, BECAUSE I PRAY THAT WHEN OBAMA IS PRESIDENT THERE WILL BE A FULL RECKONING/INVESTIGATION INTO THE CRIMES PERPETRATED BY THIS ADMINISTRATION.
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Scratch The Paint
And underneath all these 'neo-cons' you'll find a guy carrying two passports -- or being paid by a guy carrying two passports -- or a guy who is making money off a guy (sorry, there are gals here, too) who doesn't carry a passport, but has the ability to blow the phawk out of people who don't like either of the passports that these guys carry. Follow me so far?? I still wonder what flag pin most of these 'neo-cons' wear when they travel, say to . . . . Tel Aviv?
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@gator90
In the reality-based world I strive to inhabit,
You need to try harder, much harder.
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LWM
Just knowing that something is possible is half the battle when developing technical systems.
I'd be very surprised if the UK, France, Israel and several other countries don't have some form of cruise missile technology, be it terrain contour matching or whatever.
Aerosonde first crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1998. The technology would be trivial to adapt to a larger, bomb carrying UAV, I could do it in my shop if I chose to do so since I have considerable experience with building and flying radio controlled airplanes.
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@Aycharaych
From the JP link I posted earlier:
Iran is suspected of having smuggled Ukrainian X-55 cruise missiles and using them as models for an independent, domestic project.
I don't know much about the Ukranian arms industry, so I couldn't say when such a thing was first produced, how easy it is to get one, or whether it's worth a damn. But it certainly goes to your point that the technology is more widespread that most people (including me, before reading this) probably think.
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Don't Bush The Button
Thou Shalt Not Kill, as a deterrent philosophy, might work if all Peoples of the world were considered equal by all Peoples of the world.
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness,
as a redressive guide to underline the morality of prosecuting neoconspirators, might be a deterrent.
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Oil is close to a Commandment, might help some.
Secularly speaking, more electeds must join in voice to draw a line around these tyrants. In the sand, in the Senate, in the House, in editorials, on cable, network and radio.
Among the contributors and sources here, there seems enough evidence, expertise, credential, articulation and will to successfully argue against more Middle East slaughter, especially any unecessary preemptive proliferation.
How can this opposition best be fused and used to lock this down?
We need some Israeli commentary not welded to the faux failsafe faction to add some alternative diplomatic wisdom to the discussion.
The chaos and carnage affecting Iraqi civilians must be widely revealed.
A map of the regional religio-political affiliations must be drawn and disseminated.
A list of contactors, subcontractors, manufacturers, board members and consultants should be presented and press released.
The 3 candidates must be queried to present some logical analysis of the contrived Iran attack justification.
Also, a simultaneous Bush-Cheney impeachment call might freeze their button fingers.
If only our electeds had the guts to do it...
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Don't Bush The Button
Thou Shalt Not Kill, as a deterrent philosophy, might work if all Peoples of the world were considered equal by all Peoples of the world.
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness,
as a redressive guide to underline the morality of prosecuting neoconspirators, might be a deterrent.
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Oil is close to a Commandment, might help some.
Secularly speaking, more electeds must join in voice to draw a line around these tyrants. In the sand, in the Senate, in the House, in editorials, on cable, network and radio.
Among the contributors and sources here, there seems enough evidence, expertise, credential, articulation and will to successfully argue against more Middle East slaughter, especially any unecessary preemptive proliferation.
How can this opposition best be fused and used to lock this down?
We need some Israeli commentary not welded to the faux failsafe faction to add some alternative diplomatic wisdom to the discussion.
The chaos and carnage affecting Iraqi civilians must be widely revealed.
A map of the regional religio-political affiliations must be drawn and disseminated.
A list of contactors, subcontractors, manufacturers, board members and consultants should be presented and press released.
The 3 candidates must be queried to present some logical analysis of the contrived Iran attack justification.
Also, a simultaneous Bush-Cheney impeachment call might freeze their button fingers.
If only our electeds had the guts to do it...