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M, I would argue that most Iraqis were radicalized by sanctions. Furthermore, most of the fighters are now fighting Iraqis. Finally, the theory of mass radicalization has some merit, but at its core it depends on the notion that terrorism floats i…
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A) America did not support bin Laden in the eighties against the Soviets. When Jimmy Carter signed a secret executive order in 1979 to support the mujahadin against the Soviet occupiers, the orders were carried out through the Pakistani ISI. Some o…
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This is for Wu and motown: You are saying that specific dissent on pieces of intelligence among some members of the intelligence community is evidence of widespread pressure on the analysts and deception from the administration before the war. I w…
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A) that's not unprecedented. Al Gore asked for and received plenty of unfiltered intel for his staff on Russia. B) Cheney did not exactly ask for unfiltered intelligence. He asked for a second opinion. The counterterrorism sub group in the departm…
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Why did the editor of Harper???s waste this on the page. It would work best as a script shouted in front of a power plant from a doddering old man in a tattered, sauce stained cardigan. One can almost see the spit globule forming at the corner of La…
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The hijab, which is literally any modest dress that covers the contours of a woman's body and her face, is a personal choice for most Muslims. In Saudi Arabia, Iran and possibly Hamas controlled Gaza and West Bank, it is not. The political parties a…
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I'm not going to say anything about the mack because he called out the fraudulent clown known as faux rillz during the whole native american rap debacle back in august. And I appreciated the common sense he brought to that dogpile. But seriously, ho…
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Seriously, whoever said Christian Laetner was right on. Dude was selected for the only real dream team, the first one. He was the truth at Duke, and I frickin hate the bluedevils too. And as a pro he was so mediocre. I would also put everyone on the…
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great record. but he manifests the left's paranoid style of the 1970s in the message. I like happy island reggae music. Why can't Gil Scot Heron make a song about enterprise zones or Colin Powell? Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson: An Ode to Condale…
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First off. I can't believe no one mentioned Yoko. She broke up the Beatles. Art is very meaningful as a process for the individual creator. So in the end, even with mediocre product as the end of the process, the process itself is beneficial to …
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For once we agree on something, AP. I've been up on the smoothness for a minute. Coltrane? Monk? Charlie Parker? It's too damn fast and the recordings are not dolby. I need that Chick Corea Elektrik band record powered by dianetics. White dudes wit…
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Immigrant Song: Led Zep This is it: Kenny Loggins Jesus is Love: Commodores. Rosalita: Springsteen Walking on Sunshine: Katrina and the Waves.
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If I could rain on the parade for a second. Chavez is a Fidel style autocrat and no serious liberal should overlook those flaws. In 2005 he enacted new media laws that made it illegal to broadcast news that would interfere with the ecucation of Ven…
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V, I think a lot of folks would seriously question just what it means to be "in war time." We are MAKING war but that's not the same with being AT war, at least not in the conventional sense. This is rehashing points that have been made since 9/11:…
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As much as I understand where folks like Rockadelic are coming from and that none of this seems or should come as any great surprise, it's the fact that Bush continually maintains that LAWS and RESTRICTIONS that have affected every administratio…
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Islamic theocrats believe that the state should enforce Sharia law. Nonetheless, one can hold a variety of opinions that differ from others within that sect. Is this really true??? From what I've read there is no "wiggle room" on this one?? Educ…
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Semantics. Conservative and liberal, left and right can be useful words and independent thinkers may very well reside in those categories. Modern liberals believe that government has an obligation to provide for positive rights for its citizens, whe…
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Before I discovered soulstrut, I used to post on the NYtimes message board... I really tried to engage the conservatives on there, but it seemed like 99% of them just wanted to hurl invectives and insults and revisit talking points that had alread…
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I am in Egypt right now, a mature police state that is known by everyone to spy on its citizens. There has been an emergency law that has given the regime the authority to do this since a break away group of muslim brothers killed Anwar Sadat. Two…
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I just think its interesting that you both are convinced that we are invovled in a epic struggle against a facistic and blood thirsty opponent who will stop at nothing to destroy our entire culture (as they are apparently already successfully doin…
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On a number of the points, I think Motown is wrong, particularly on the intelligence. For example you say that January 2003 the CIA produced a report saying that there was no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. But the briefing Powell gave that mo…
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Co-sign. but don't forget
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Also this joint: All the nasties with the choir and the perfect drum hits.
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I have long favored air drops of weed to terrorist strongholds like Kashmir I don't know which people exactly are our enemies in Kashmir and I don't want to get into that, but dropping weed there would be absurd. I've never seen more people getting…
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Okay, let me concede the following reasonable point made by some of you. I never said if you ever smoke weed you will not achieve your goals. In moderation, weed does not ruin your life. In answer to your question, wholewheat, about my experience …
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this person's pro-marijuana position undercuts his anti-war position if he wants to energize local communities to sustain resistance to the war. You are rediculous. So your saying if I smoke pot I cant really be against the war? O.K., I woul…
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People, I wrote everything I did in the first paragraph because at the end of the day I think the government does not have the right to tell you what you can put in your body; that the drug war has criminalized innocent people; and that its effect…