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You speak soothe :D As long as one can polarize people into (at least) two opposing camps you will have them functionally at war with each other. Sounds like a good way to retain power and keep folks busy busy busy to me ....... ;)

Good case for equipping all patrol cars with Dashcams ..... with a wireless microphone for audio recording to be worn by the police officer while away from the vehicle .....

Indeed ...... the truly scary thing is there have been how many replies to this thread after Leo's initial post ...... and out of those, how many folks have condemned such idiocy ? ..... just two ..... Leo thinks it would be a lesson in comparative government and living conditions .... based...

LOL ..... now that's there is pretty funny ...... coming from you of all people .... :rolleyes: Working on the spin-meister merit badge now are we ? You said what you said: "I'd like to send every one of the protesters on a one way trip to China or Cuba." Not at all - it was implicit...

What about them ? (it doesn't have anything to do with what I was specifically addressing ..... :rolleyes:) I was replying to a post whose premise was that ALL PROTESTERS should be deported from this country permanently .... It's doesn't take a genius to realize that not all people...

That must be the new libertarian thing there Leo ...... deport all protesters who exercise their civil right to petition the government for redress ..... Layout - yup, I think I see one of the quarters where that new police state will be comin' from ....... (FWIW, I got no problem whatsoever...

The answer should be obvious: Neither

Yeah ..... well, I think I once read somewhere that sometimes ..... those who have eyes yet fail to see ...... and those that have ears yet do not hear .... Indeed .... But the fact is, in the long term .... and in the final analysis ... it is always in our best interests to respect other...

Pilgrim buddy, it was a really nice try ..... truly a valiant effort .... I gotta give ya credit for trying .... but I'm afraid you're coming up way, way short .... :rolleyes: Because you attempt to selectively address what was said as though it were merely a battle of numbers with respect to...

And oh yeah .... that little thing about Saddam having "weapons of mass destruction" ..... well, if you were wondering where he got some of them: On May 25 1994, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee released a report in which it was stated that "pathogenic (meaning 'disease producing'), toxigenic...

Well, the data at the following link (below) is just a total of all Iraqi violent civilian deaths since the 2003 invasion - and it does not include any of the Iraqi armed forces deaths since 2003 ... Nor does it include any of deaths (civilian or armed forces) that occurred as a consequence of...

Exactly true ..... if you want to win a war (of any type), probably the smart thing to do ........ would be to not do those things that would drive away any potential allies in that fight ..... Of course, one should never underestimate the utter arrogance and stupidity of man as a species...

Greg, I don't know much about the above as you describe it - it is largely outside of my current knowledge, and the personal experiences of anyone I know directly, at least that I have been told about. Given how religious fanaticism (in any religion) can and does occur within specific subsets...

Well said ..... a very good analysis of the big picture in the wider context ..... my admiration to you for having the ability to honestly look and see it ..... and my hats off to ya for having the guts to say it ...... :D .... between radical Christianity and radical Islam ..... (IMHO) ;)

There will be those who I'm sure take great exception to the source of the following video - and will no doubt try to impugn the story being told on that basis. I tend be somewhat less interested in the particular politics of sources - whether left or right - but more concerned with the actual...

Ya think ? ...... btw, what was your first clue ? :rolleyes:

LOL :D .... I thought that might be the case .... but I wasn't gonna go there ;) I just wanted some context to understand your experience, in terms of the time frame that it occurred in. Yup - seems like religious fanaticism is on the rise in all sorts of places ... I don't know how rampant...

Understand - that's actually very refreshing to hear - BTW, how long ago was that ? (From what I've what I've been able to gather this is a relatively recent phenomena - say within the last 15 or 20 years.) Some of the details of the issues his son faced were covered in the article I...

aristotle, If you really knew me, you would know I have absolutely no problem whatsoever going wherever is required to take the fight to the enemy ..... If the opposition is residing in the mud, under some slime-covered rock of the perversion of our armed forces and dismantling of the...

Clearly some apparently think we are - these folks have absolutely no business in the military - if they are incapable of differentiating between the secular role of the military and the mission they are on, and their faith. They are at least as whacked out as Maj. Hassan (the Fort Hood...