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I think it appeals to you because it leaves the impression that we've been insulted, though, I agree, it's kinda hard to interpret.

I hear it's a stiff $75.00 fine, too, though I'm not sure whether it affects your insurance or your credit rating. Just to be on the safe side, if you're thinking of buying a house, I wouldn't start a war.

You asserted that Fox News wouldn't cover the story. I showed you that it did.

What did you do with all the money?

My annoyance over Optional777’s hypocrisy and inconsequence is not meaningless to me. Like anyone, I prefer to avoid being annoyed and actively pestered, and, with comments such as the above, he confirms that he cannot be trusted to hold up his side of a civil debate. [b] In other...

Error404/RS gets THAT from my post at http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18840&perpage=6&pagenumber=12. He uses the word "indecisive" three times. That's three more times than I used it. Nor does the phrase "nothing but middle of the road" appear anywhere in that post...

Now you're being obstinate, as well as hypocritical. First you yourself quote my statement, but then you introduce an ellipsis and subtract the "either" construction. It's hard to imagine how your determination to distort my words could be more clear. In addition, the use of the term...

It is a judgment based on study and the opinions of military strategists. "Useful at all" is a vague formulation: Might Iraqi forces have conceivably inflicted casualties using chemical weapons? Certainly it's possible. They would have been very unlikely, however, to slow the coalition's...

If you want a more credible and sophisticated attack on the Administration -and I know you do! - you might read this scathing cover story from THE NEW REPUBLIC: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030630&s=ackermanjudis063003 The capsule summary: Much of the article's content might be...

[/b] Skipping over the collection of quotations (which include a statement of Cheney's on "reconstituted nuclear weapons" that was widely taken out of context and misused) and the re-configuration and narrowing of the Administrations' offered justifications for war, I think we - both...

As for the "it seems reasonable" argument, don't forget that it once seemed reasonable to just about everyone to believe that the Sun revolved around the Earth and that heavy objects fell faster than light ones... Global warming may turn out to be a real problem, but we seem to be a long way...

Thoughtful analysis of US interests in the Persian Gulf region going forward: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20030701faessay15401/kenneth-m-pollack/securing-the-gulf.html Excerpt on the role of oil and other factors: The material on Iran as compared to Iraq is also succinct, for example:

Fairly typical example of the Madison 180: Using an exaggerated and insulting blanket characterization in order to criticize what he perceives to be an exaggerated and insulting blanket characterization.

Being middle-of-the-road, or unaffiliated, or uncertain, or maybe moderately liberal, or inconsistent doesn't make you wiser or more objective, it just makes you middle-of-the-road, unaffiliated, uncertain, maybe moderately liberal, or inconsistent. Objectivity, in this context, would...

I'm still waiting for you to respond to any of the last several posts I put up in response to your usual material.

You really don't know very much about the world, do you? [b] Surely, the opinions of individual soldiers and their families vary, but I strongly suspect that quite a few from either group would welcome the opportunity to punch a guy like you in the nose.

You appear to be confused. You quote a post of mine addressed to Madison. Did you miss my posts that replied to you? Go back a few pages. [b] I never claimed that we needed to spend "TAX DOLLARS to right every wrong in the world." You asked, "[W]hy haven't we stuck our noses into the...

It seems to rile some people up when I suggest that the Left basically seems to stand these days for conspiracy theories and phony budgeting - or really, for anything that they believe harms Bush politically, and against anything that might help him - and yet, in Iran, we have a situation where...

Here's where hostility and cynicism about one's own political leaders gets disgusting: Apparently, Optional has zero sympathy for Iranians who are struggling to free themselves from oppression, and whose success, aside from being great news in its own right, could have incalculable benefits not...

These are pitifully hypocritical statements coming from someone whose main contribution has been to attack me for supposed biases and alliances without engaging on any of the specific issues that were under discussion. You post a series of ridiculous insults under the heading of "Fye's...