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The question rhetorically expresses honest uncertainty about the other individual's connections to the same consensual world occupied by the questioner. It can be argued that individuals who do not occupy the same consensual world are incapable of having meaningful interchanges - a valid...

Sure, it's an open forum. You have the right to be an ass, and I have the right to ask you to stop. Deal with it. I already told you exactly why I consider your attacks on me and your absurd and annoying misreadings of my arguments unwelcome - not because I care what you think of me, but...

Your words. I made an argument and offered a characterization - in response to someone who was claiming that those who favored the war did so either because they were stupid "suckers" or because they were motivated by greed and self-interest. If you disagree, please feel free to demonstrate...

Please read more carefully: I did not deny that Bush's position had changed, quite the opposite, and for reasons that should be rather obvious. It the concept is too complicated for you to process, why don't you butt out?

Attacking me or questioning my motives or objectivity may make you feel superior to the discussion, but it is not the same as engaging in discussion. It does, however, offer surrogate ad hominem attacks to the people who are taking the other side. At best, it's a distraction.

What planet are you on? I suppose you believe that ALL of the world's major, middling, and minor news organizations are in on bungrider's HAL conspiracy? The mass graves and reams of material, video and photographs, and endless direct testimony about the Ba'ath police state have been on...

There are numerous answers to that question. I believe I stated my own position and beliefs fairly clearly, but you appear to have a problem either with reading comprehension or with simple logic: The conditions that obtained in relation to Iraq - multiple justifications for intervention...

What's gibberish is this childish and intrinsically meaningless "war for oil" line that I'd thought people on your side had finally gotten tired of. I suppose you would still consider reporting on such abuses to be "emotional gibberish" if it was your parent, child, or sibling being...

Some other facts to ponder about the regime that Alfonso wishes we had trusted, and that he prefers we'd have left in power indefinitely: http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6600315%255E25717,00.html

Speaking of truth's that some have difficulty handling - here are some facts on the regime that Alfonso finds so trustworthy - though which he did once have the courage to concede was "yucky." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-717360,00.html

Yes, just as they had several times previously, only to be found out by diverse inspection teams and the testimony of defectors. [b] Better to have US and British divisions of troops galavanting virtually "unchecked all over the country?" So, in other words, you believe that the UN...

Since the upgrade, my TS data has mostly been precisely in sync with IB. There have been a handful of periods when the charts were updating slightly behind the actual quotes: Bid/Ask/Last data on the Order Bar kept up with IB, but the charts would briefly stall. On the other hand, there were...

Let's hear your persuasive and thoughtful explanations for why, if Saddam got rid of all of his WMDs at some point prior to the war, he didn't offer full cooperation with UN inspections. And, while you're at it, don't forget to tell us for the umpteenth time how much you "hate" America's...

By Michael Ledeen http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen061603.asp

Well, we've been through this before on other threads, and some thoughtful articles on the subject have been written here and there. You have to begin with a bit of humility though: We don't yet know the full story or even most of it. It's never easy to look into the mind of a Saddam Hussein...

I don't stake much on such material: We have no way of assessing its truth value. A bureaucracy like the CIA or the DOD always produces a number of individuals who are ready and willing to provide useful quotes to receptive journalists who happen to be taking aim at rivals or superiors. If...

I suppose that a response that you respect would have to consist mainly of a series of insults, alongside whatever non sequiturs I happened to find interesting or amusing at the moment. You repeatedly mention me personally in your posts - always while misspelling my screen-name - and yet...

Well, you also have the problem of the boy who cried wolf, or the Leftist who cried Hitler. According to the Left, every Republican President in my lifetime, even Ford for a minute or two, has been Hitler, every Republican Party Convention has been the Nuremberg rallies, and the parallels...

If it's any comfort to you, the idea seems to have spread out there that there's some law or even a precedent, Constitutional or otherwise, requiring establishment of a "clear and present danger" prior to the exercise of war powers. When I was googling up some background for my reply - yes, I...

No - the words "clear and present danger" do not appear in the Constitution. The words "imminent danger" do, but not in reference to war-making powers - they appear in reference to the states and their rights to form militias. The phrase "clear and present danger" came into use after Justice...