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Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124026] Sat, 04 December 2004 03:59 Go to next message
Aircraftkiller is currently offline  Aircraftkiller
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=588471

From The Independent, even.
Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124076] Sat, 04 December 2004 10:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The media went ape over missing explosives?

What are you talking about? Each of the major media outlets spent maybe 5 minutes a day covering the story, while always throwing out counters. The most attention this got was an above-the-fold article in the NYT when the story broke.

You do know that all this article says is that some people under Saddam planned to use some of this explosive for making a couple suicide cars, right? They didn't plan to take all 350 tons of it, and drive 35 big rigs into some UN compound. Above about 10 pounds, HMX and RDX need a shaped charge to contain the explosion enough to make the extra weight worthwhile.

This article also doesn't address how the embedded reporter with the Army unit that passed by al Qa Qaa took pictures of football-field sized rooms lined with explosives AND IAEA seals placed over many doors.


"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)

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Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124365] Sun, 05 December 2004 10:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jecht is currently offline  Jecht
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What is wrong with America?


only you would have such an un-patriotic siggy. Evil or Very Mad


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Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124436] Sun, 05 December 2004 14:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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No, gbull, there is nothing unpatriotic about his sig. There is stuff wrong with America, it's something we all can agree on. What we don't agree on is what is wrong.

There was a time when people were impressed that I have the firepower to decimate a planet in under 10 minutes.
Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124505] Sun, 05 December 2004 20:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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its said in a very unpatriotic way. How bout we narrow down what you think is wrong so it doesnt sound like you hate your own country, and if you do...Get the hell out. Canada has plenty of room.

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Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124510] Sun, 05 December 2004 20:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Does anyone notice of all the countries that are in North America and South America the USA is the only one referred to as America?

Kinda seems big headed to me...


No. Seriously. No.
Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124517] Sun, 05 December 2004 20:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Indeed.

I think some people are too lazy to say The United States of America...


Wow... I just got banned for being a fucking idiot.
Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124519] Sun, 05 December 2004 20:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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We registered the name first. Canada was too slow. It's a fact.

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Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124531] Sun, 05 December 2004 21:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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glyde51

Does anyone notice of all the countries that are in North America and South America the USA is the only one referred to as America?

Kinda seems big headed to me...


thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard. We got first dibs cuz we were the first independent country. I get very sick of people noticing this dumb stuff like it hurts their feelings.....get a nutsack and quit yer whinin geez. sorry if i was harsh but it had to be said, take it as something for you other countries to work on cuz i dont feel like gettin into a fight bout this.


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Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124591] Mon, 06 December 2004 07:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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NOt quite. United States of America is how you got that title. You are a bunch of States that united in America. Nowhere in the names of the other countries do they have the word "America", hense the U.S.A. gets labled with a shorthand name. One of five anyways. U.S.A; America; the States; the United States; or simly the U.S. It has nothing to do with being a first of anything other than having the word in your name.

Kind of makes you wonder if we had gone with the "United Provinces of America" rather than Canada...
Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124667] Mon, 06 December 2004 14:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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=gbull=[L]=]only you would have such an un-patriotic siggy. Evil or Very Mad


"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"

-Thomas Jefferson


"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)

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Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124713] Mon, 06 December 2004 17:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jecht is currently offline  Jecht
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one word for ya - "Bullshit" <----and you can qoute me on that.

Why are liberals so damn negative? look at the glass half full and getting refilled.


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Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124798] Mon, 06 December 2004 20:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That's beautiful, gbull...
Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124807] Mon, 06 December 2004 21:37 Go to previous message
Jecht is currently offline  Jecht
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ya, i thought so. by saying that he says he doesnt approve of our country and that my friend cannot be patriotism. Hes twisting a Founding Father's words, what Jefferson meant was to have a difference in opinion, but Engi used it in a different context than that.

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