The recent capitualtions by Iraq (allowing U2 flyovers, granting limited access to some scientists, etc) of course are a tactic aimed at stalling the US longer, since they have the possibility of giving more rhetorical ammo to the inspection-hawks on the UNSC. Some might take this as bad news, but I don’t really see it as very useful information about when a war could start. Rather, i think it tells more simply about Saddam’s own perception of the situation.
Firs off, everyone knows that Iraq would do everything possible to make sure that whatever concessions they make are as much for show as possible, such as telling their scientists to be interviewed by the UN: “Look of course we want you to cooperate with the inspectors, but if you divulge any information to them that is vital to Iraqi national security we’re gonna have to torture you and your family to death. And, by the way, anything relating to any WMDs is all considered vital to our national security. But by all means, cooperate with the inspectors, k?”
So really, there isn’t a huge probability that Blix and co. would garner anything truly important from the agreements recently made with Iraq. Yet, Iraq is still taking more of a risk in allowing the inspectors the kind of new access (hedged and dishonest as it may be) than they ever have before. Saddam’s capital in this escapade of his has always been the degree to which he was able to hold back any information from leaking out of Iraq about his weapons programs beastiality or bestiality. These recent moves amount to more spending of that capital than he has done since even before he agreed to 1441.
I think that’s significant, because it seems to reveal something about what the current mindset is for Saddam and for his small band of Tikrit thugs. Basically, I think that they are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, meaning that in some way, this current inspections game isn’t going last much longer. Some possibilities as to just what I think that light could be (from most to least likely):
1) Saddam sees the window for a US military campaign closing: Den Beste has said that “if there are no American soldiers patrolling the streets of Baghdad on May 1, we are all royally fucked.” That might be a little too stringent of an assessment, if not only because even if the attack started tomorrow there’s no guarantee it would be basically over by the 1st. But i think his statement is essentially correct if you replace “May 1st” with the “Ides of March.” That leaves us some time, but really only a couple weeks for the war to start before some of the seasonal issues start coming into play, as well as just the operational level of readiness would presumably begin to wear down, assuming it was past the point of top military readiness for our troops in the region (more on that below).
I think Saddam sees, in much the same way that Bill Quick does, that even now we’re coming close to (if we have not already reached and passed it) the point where the momentum for war slows down so much that it can’t be started up again. I personally have no idea if this is actually the case, but I think it is the perception that Saddam is working off of right now: Stall them just a little more males fucking dogs. Give them something that would really cause the inspectors to drool, even if it means putting the programs at risk. They’re almost on the verge of collapse. After they reach that point, it almost won’t even matter what the inspectors can find.
2) The US has reached, or will soon reach, ideal military preparedness for an invasion. I find this slightly less likely than the above because it first assumes that a) Saddam has any means of knowing (or at least thinking he knows) when the US would be at peak readiness and b) that he would think that making more concessions to the UN, and thus giving the French more of a (shallow) reason to carp about the viability of inspections, would actually forestall Bush from unilaterally giving the go-ahead.
Neither of these are really that unlikely as assumptions, but they’re by no means assured either.
With regards to a), the idea that he would have reliable information concerning the our forces’ preparedness that would be detailed enough to give him some hint as to when they would be most ready to attack seems pretty doubtful. However, there is a distinct possiblity, being surrounded by the kind of cowering yes-men that his personal eccentricities have engendered in his advisors, an environment where the messenger is very often shot, after the messenger’s family and friends have also been killed, he might very well think he knows a lot more than he does.
Saddam isn’t stupid, but he’s been living in what is eesentially a fantasy world for 20 years dogsex woman. It was that very environment that led to his disastrous missteps during the Gulf War, so it’s very possible that he’s been fooled into think he knows a lot more than he actually does.
As for assumption b), I predict that, at most, Bush and Blair will try to time their presenting of a new UNSC resolution authorizing military force to coincide with us getting everything ideally in place to launch an invasion. There would, at most, be a couple days of discussion, at which either they would either vote yes, and we would go, or they would vote no, and we would go.
But, as mentioned above, stalling the US after it’s reached prime readiness is a thousand times more important than trying to do so while we’re not even capable of attacking yet, and if this can be done for even 6 weeks, the liklihood of the invasion happening drops considerably. It’s concievable that Saddam (rightly or wrongly) thinks we’re nearing that point, at which point he would be more readily agreeable to taking risks so as to make concessions (or seem to) and thus maybe stall the invasion. And in the same way as before, it’s perfectly reasonable to suggest that his warped sense of the world would lead him to believe that such concessions could actually generate enough opposition in the UNSC to actually stay Bush’s hand.
And, even if he has a better grasp on reality than that and doubts the probability of his new stall tactics working in this scenario, the amount of risk involved in a US attack far outweighs the risk he’s taking in possibly exposing a few more secrets of his WMD programs.
3) Saddam is imminently close to getting a nuke: Easily the scariest possibility. It would mean the game would undergo a complete overhaul my aunt fucking dog. Not that it would completely shift to a North Korea-like scenario, where we have to suddenly be content with treating Saddam with some degree of legitimacy and dealing with him as more of an equal, but certainly the situation would move in that direction. Suddenly attacking would be a much more perilous proposition, meaning we might not do it at all, or if we did, it could very well mean some sort of catastrophe: either a spiteful, top-o-the-world-ma type of nuclear strike against Israel or Turkey, or one that could possibly kill thousands of advancing US troops. Even as spread out as the formations would necessarily be, with all the measures that CENTCOM would of course take to minimize the damage from such an act, I still think there’s a chance this could generate thousands of deaths among our troops. Luckily though, I find this to be somewhat farfetched. At least, I’m hoping it is.
So, for what it’s worth, I think these recent moves reveal at least something about what is going on in the Iraqi side of this game. The only problem is that Saddam has virtually no agency when it comes to deciding when the war will start, or even if there will be one at all. That’s Bush’s jurisdiction. You might be able to take his maneuverings as reactionary indications as to what we’re doing or going to do, but as I said before, the information he’s working off of might be much worse than the simple amount of un-knowledge that we all have to work with sheep sex.
As for myself, I’m sticking to the tentative hope that we’re going to attack within a few days after we reach the moment of being in the best state of readiness to do so, with or without UN approval.
When wil that happen?
Geez, I dunno. I’m just a stupid kid. Go ask Den Beste. He seems to know what he’s talking about.
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
Wheeler Hall last spring.
In your face, Space Coyote!
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
the Feds know about it.
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
the Feds know about it.
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
superiority.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
vulnerability.
superiority.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
looks like a green light, no?
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
In your face, Space Coyote!
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
computer systems.
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
of fist.
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
I mean come on, when you're arguing with someone who's just going to call you a Nazi when you spend 2,000 words making
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
Maybe I can't change the fact that I have to be intimately confronted with the death and pain in order to really feel the
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
of fist.
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
looks like a green light, no?
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
I finally went and did it.
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
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I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
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The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
A taste, just a taste...
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
hacky-sack?"
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
I mean come on, when you're arguing with someone who's just going to call you a Nazi when you spend 2,000 words making
trying to get an education
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
In your face, Space Coyote!
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Why are you still here?!
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
Maybe I can't change the fact that I have to be intimately confronted with the death and pain in order to really feel the
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
cause, but I,
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
of fist.
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
that I hadn't thought of it first!
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
being the reaction described above.
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
superiority.
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
looks like a green light, no?
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
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making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
of the mass moron movement.
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
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of fist.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
to penetrate.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
looks like a green light, no?
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
and you'll get diversity in the speech by the politician, in the one by the principal who welcomes him and in the one by
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
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