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Fri Mar-18-11 01:37 PM
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| So when do we set up a no-fly over Bahrain? |
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People getting shot point blank?
We should do that gig after being super successfull in Libya.
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| Tierra_y_Libertad
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Fri Mar-18-11 01:38 PM
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| 1. Or, Afghanistan. Or, Pakistan. |
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But, of course, our bombing of people is for their own good.
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Fri Mar-18-11 01:40 PM
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| 2. why don't you just say what you really mean? |
| PurityOfEssence
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Fri Mar-18-11 01:47 PM
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| 3. Ug. Saudis good. Qaddafi bad. |
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It's the difference between Authoritarian and Totalitarian, remember?
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| CJCRANE
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Fri Mar-18-11 01:48 PM
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| 4. Change will come to Bahrain. |
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These things play out in different ways and on different timescales.
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| Critters2
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Fri Mar-18-11 01:49 PM
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| 5. Or Zimbabwe? Or North Korea? nt |
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Fri Mar-18-11 01:50 PM
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| 6. Soon as the UN votes for it. |
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Fri Mar-18-11 01:51 PM
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| 7. It's the difference between dictators the US likes |
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And those that are expendable....in the eyes of the powers that be.
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Fri Mar-18-11 02:22 PM
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Fri Mar-18-11 02:25 PM
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| 9. Unrec for turning your back on the protestors / victims of genocide |
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you wouldnt support helping anyone... so why pretend?
im just glad the world is more sane.
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Fri Mar-18-11 03:14 PM
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| 12. What's going on in Libya is NOT genocide. Saying so is deliberate misrepresentation. |
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People are not being killed for their religion, race, ethnicity or tribal affiliation, period.
That's an extremely loaded word, designed to slap down any dissent and silence opposition. Since you've been posting on threads where this has been repeatedly pointed out, it would seem that you've seen these rebuttals.
Reducing the Libyan insurrection into simplistic emotional shout-downs and ad hominem attacks is distortion at best.
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Fri Mar-18-11 02:26 PM
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| 10. And Yemen as well? n/t |
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Fri Mar-18-11 02:34 PM
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| 11. Right after we liberate the Ivory Coast |
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Some massacred civilians are more equal than others. If they're getting massacred over major oil fields, the world is ready, willing and able to send in someone else's children to do some killing and dying. When it's some backwater out-of-the-headlines itty-bitty country, there are suddenly limits to our ability to be the world's policeman.
Why intervene in Libya and not the Ivory Coast if this has nothing to do with oil? Anyone?
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