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Asked and answered a few hundred times on ET alone, by now. Dealt with in numerous recent posts on this very thread, as a matter of fact. [b] Other than for a few Stingers and some odds and ends left over from the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, Osama and his people mainly depended on...

Sorry for forgetting the link. http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/busch/03/iraq.html I have a feeling you'll like the "No Left Turns" blog in general... If one wishes to discuss nuances, then we can discuss nuances: There is no evidence that Bush "lied": His statement in the SOTU...

Off the top of my head, with the opening bell approaching: 1. If there were no WMD munitions available to Iraqi forces at any given time, but there remained WMD capacities (the expertise, equipment, whatever chemical or biological precursor agents, etc.) , then Iraq could have fairly quickly...

What We Do Know in Iraq Editorial July 2003 by: Andrew E. Busch Titillated by the administration’s admission that President Bush cited a forged document in making his case against Iraq in his January, 2003 State of the Union address, Democratic lawmakers are again insisting on a...

From Best of the Web Today - July 10, 2003 By JAMES TARANTO Iran-Contra Redux Surely the nadir of Ronald Reagan's presidency came on Nov. 13, 1986. His party had lost its Senate majority nine days earlier, and now President Reagan was forced to admit that his administration had secretly...

The word "snob," which connotes a willingness to "snub," implies a rejection of all that is merely "common." While common sense is available to anyone with experience of the world, the intellectual and moral attainments of an elite typically have to be acquired - though education, particularly...

--Michael Barone http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030714/opinion/14pol.htm Paul J. Cella http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/defensewrapper.jsp?PID=1051-350&CID=1051-070703C

Well, as ever, the truth is somewhat more complicated than a simple yes or no. It is generally accepted that he met with the plotters and knew of their plans, and favored bringing Hitler down, but at least initially objected to an attempted assassination. In short, he clearly "participated,"...

Actually, I don't believe Rommel was ever a member of the Nazi party. He also participated in the plot to assassinate Hitler. A great general on the wrong side in a bad war. [b] WTF are you talking about? Maybe if you give an example of troops fighting WITH WMD, we'll know what...

I'll leave it to others who are familiar with my posts to determine whether it is my habit to address whatever issue is under discussion, or instead to rely on attacks and labels. People who attempt to weave conspiracy theories around the Waco incident - or who insult American political...

I wasn't aware that one could "flame" an author who wasn't participating in the discussion. Are you suggesting that one or all of the group I mentioned might be lurking here. If so, then I wonder what they're doing in the chat area of trading site, and I sure hope they show themselves so we...

I don't think msfe is interested in swaying our opinions. I think he's interested in pestering us. When he makes some ridiculous charge about human rights in the US (that people are "disappeared" for "speaking out"), then tries to back up the charge with a link to a Waco nutjob site, the...

Hmm... well I wouldn't have any idea, naturally, what relevance to our recent dialogue you believe this "snapping" phenomenon might have, but in my own experience and observation it's just one of many different processes by which an individual and his or her ideology might change. Just to use...

I'm sure both Hanson and May will be greatly relieved to hear that Alfonso isn't "inclined" to deal with their arguments. [b] If you don't or can't specify what precisely you read in the Project for a New American Century report or in other material from the "gang"'s "brethren" that led...

We've been over this territory before, multiple times in fact. At some point between 1998 and March 2003, very probably much nearer the end of that period, SH appears to have reached the reasonable conclusion that use of WMDs would be of little practical value against the US military, but would...

I believe our policy is to wage war when doing so is the best solution, and by the best means. We and the Soviet Union did wage war with each other for around 40 years, almost entirely through proxy fights and other indirect means. No other option other than surrender or mutual annihilation...

As regards the differences between Iraq and the Soviet Union, you're neglecting several hundred divisions of the Red Army, and several thousand ICBMs, among other things. As for the timing issue, your formulation again neglects the existence of a legal state of war between the US and Iraq...

No, this is now, by my count, the fourth time that you have attached the word "indecisive" to yourself. I have never done so. Indeed, I haven't, until lately, attempted to offer any particular characterization of you or your political position at all. I at most referred to a range of...

"contrary to the USA nobody disappears in Switzerland for speaking out against anything." One wonders what he thinks he's referring to.