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US AND THEM: US, UN & Iraq, version 8.0

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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 11:43 am
McGentrix wrote:
That has no bearing on the present conversation McT.

Do you think that if the insurgency ended tomorrow, the US was able to finish the infrastructure rebuilding, the Iraqi government was allowed to rule as outlined by their constitution and the oil was allowed to go to the world market that the US would not leave?


You don't? You're in a minority, I fear.
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 02:34 pm
cicerone imposter wrote:

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icant, There's too much stuff out in web-land that shows Bush went AWOL. Wonder why he could never really defend that charge? Because he can't. You call it "mythology," because you can't defend it either.

I call it mythology because the support for this allegation is at best hearsay, and at worst people alleging what they want to believe.

I want to believe the accuser carries the burden of proving the truth of his accusation, and the accused does not carry the burdon of proving the falsity of his accusers' accusation.

I want to believe this, because it is after all the law of our land.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 02:36 pm
A mind is a terrible thing to waste . . .
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Mortkat
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 02:38 pm
I took out my notebook and copied that last post down. My God- How incisive- how deep- how derivative--

A Mind is a terrible thing to waste.

I must really memorize that.
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McGentrix
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 02:42 pm
Just make sure you get the original source for that though. It wasn't Setanta. I first heard it on television commercials for the United Negro College Fund. Not sure if its origins go further back.
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Mortkat
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 02:42 pm
Ican711- I have noted the charge made many times. It is like the charge that Bill Clinton is a rapist. Some people claim that Clinton raped Juanita Broadderick, but no one has been able to prove it. Heresay is rife concering that charge.

There is no evidence that George W. Bush was AWOL. When I say evidence, I mean the kind of testimony that would stand up in court and be judged to be true beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Anon-Voter
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:08 pm
Setanta wrote:
A mind is a terrible thing to waste . . .


Too bad deadcat lost his !!

Anon
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Mortkat
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:14 pm
McGentrix- Of course, you are correct, but the fact that Sentana posts such a cliche as if it were an announcement from Sinai, is revealing. When you read Setanta and Blotham, it is as if the great intellects of the world are deigning to give the poor peasants their exclusive wisdom. The truth is that they are filled with left wing Cliches and rarely present evidence to buttress their remarks. And as for Setanta's post---


I took out my notebook and copied that last post down. My God- How incisive- how deep- how derivative--

A Mind is a terrible thing to waste.

I must really memorize that.
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:23 pm
revel wrote:

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I don't think we would leave, why would we have permanent bases if we were going to just up and leave?
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The permanent bases are for the permanent military... the Iraq military.

The article you referenced alleges that there are 14 bases currently being built, and that these 14 will eventually be consolidated into 4 permanent "metabases."
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:26 pm
The standard of sarcasm by conservatives here is pathetic . . . it really lowers the tenor of the site . . . you guys really need to do better work . . .
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Mortkat
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:29 pm
It lowers the tenor of the site??? I am sorry but there are no tenors here.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:30 pm
Well, half of that last sentence is correct . . .
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:34 pm
.... but some are here, who usually attend the choir in an opera seria.
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Mortkat
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:38 pm
Oh, heck, I might as well show how brilliant I am also-

Hell is paved with good intentions--Samuel Johnson.

I have read that aphorism at least forty times in the last twenty years.

Why Setanta and Blotham think they are distributing the wisdom of the ages with such cliches as - A mind is a terrible thing to waste-- shows, as far as I am concerned--an arrogance that holds them "above the filthy masses"
The word is supercilous.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:41 pm
The only arogance that puts all of us in danger of losing our Constitutional rights is named Bush.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 03:43 pm
spellseach-dot-com wrote:
supercilous is a common misspelling of supercilious . . .


Quoteworld-dot-com wrote:
Dr. Samuel Johnson quote - The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.


In another thread, Italmassamortgato wrote:
I would, of course, counsel you to utilize evicdence and documentation whenever you can.



How long will we have to wait for you to show how brilliant you are?
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 04:13 pm
www.m-w.com
Quote:
Main Entry: 1ten·or
Pronunciation: 'te-n&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin tenor uninterrupted course, from tenEre to hold -- more at THIN
1 a : the drift of something spoken or written : PURPORT b : an exact copy of a writing : TRANSCRIPT c : the concept, object, or person meant in a metaphor
2 a : the melodic line usually forming the cantus firmus in medieval music b : the voice part next to the lowest in a 4-part chorus c : the highest natural adult male singing voice; also : a person having this voice d : a member of a family of instruments having a range next lower than that of the alto
3 : a continuance in a course, movement, or activity
4 : habitual condition : CHARACTER
synonym see TENDENCY


Lowering the tenor can be an improvement.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 04:23 pm
One assumes that you are addressing Italmassamortgato, who seems not to have known that definition of tenor. Your assertion, is, however, without foundation.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 04:24 pm
Italmassamortgato, you need to tell that to the folks at spellsearch-dot-com. At all events, i'll take the testimony of just about any warm body over yours, having had sufficient experience of your hysteria.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jan, 2006 04:33 pm
70 in Italian is settanta.

Setanta is quite a wellknown word for educated.
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