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Old 11-12-2004, 12:00 PM   #1
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But yeah, maybe we're the fuckin' bad guys. Never mind that the Convention really has to be used by both sides in order to be effective.
After the Abu Ghraib abuses news story broke, there was an increase in the number of hostages taken by the insurgents in Iraq. Some of them made direct reference to the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

Being the good guys and staying on the moral high road is not just to improve our image and make us feel good about ourselves. It saves lives too.
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Old 11-12-2004, 03:17 PM   #2
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When THEY capture someone they torture them and make a snuff video slowly sawing the person's head off so they can play the final cries of the captor over and over to show their potential recruits how fun it is.
What they do is irrelevant. By your reasoning, they could say they're not so bad because at least they didn't flay their prisoners.
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Old 11-15-2004, 09:14 AM   #3
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I'd be sad that the only moderating force in the administration was leaving, but I don't think they listened to him anyway.
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Old 11-15-2004, 10:48 AM   #4
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Maybe he'll write a "come clean" book.
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Old 11-16-2004, 01:00 PM   #5
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The word is that Bush was having Powell movement problems so he had his Colin removed.


OK, so I wont consider stand up as a second job...
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Old 11-16-2004, 01:07 PM   #6
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The word is that Bush was having Powell movement problems so he had his Colin removed.


OK, so I wont consider stand up as a second job...
For that you must die...
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Old 11-16-2004, 08:52 PM   #7
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The word is that Bush was having Powell movement problems so he had his Colin removed.


OK, so I wont consider stand up as a second job...

I thought it was funny! Clever and disgusting at the same time, nice work
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Old 11-17-2004, 01:07 AM   #8
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I thought it was funny! Clever and disgusting at the same time, nice work

Thank you. Thank you very much!
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Old 11-16-2004, 01:16 PM   #9
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I think, more than any other cabinet member, Bush's policies impacted Colin.
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Old 11-16-2004, 01:58 PM   #10
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There goes the last moderate, with only a modest amount of tongue in cheek, god help us all now.
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Old 11-16-2004, 03:59 PM   #11
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Will Colin Blow? There's a big book deal waitin'.
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Old 11-16-2004, 04:04 PM   #12
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I think Powell and the other guys are pretty smart getting out when they did. Four years from now we'll still be in Iraq, thousands more of our soldiers will have died there, and everyone involved will be looking pretty bad. At least they saved face by getting out early. Nobody listened to Powell anyway, so why should he bother staying in there?
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