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jswordy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:14 PM
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Senators Press Rice for Tougher Action on Syria
U.S. lawmakers from both parties today called on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to consider tougher action against Syria, including new sanctions, after the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a Beirut bomb attack.

``We have to be clear, we have to be direct'' in sending a message to Syria, said Senator George Allen, a Virginia Republican. ``It has to be that terrorist activity is not going to be tolerated.''


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ajYu2LdAL._o&refer=top_world_news
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JaneDoughnut Donating Member (402 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:15 PM
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1. Is there any evidence?
Has any evidence that Syria is responsible been presented yet?
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:17 PM
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4. Evidence is not required for a Totalitarian Nation like Amerika
Our Noble and Godly Fuehrer will rapidly divine what is true and act on it.

Ah, the irony of an ever-repeating history.
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hopein08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 06:26 PM
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18. My thoughts exactly! n/t
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:16 PM
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2. Man, war is fast becoming our biggest export... besides jobs.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:16 PM
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3. Meanwhile, 300,000 African kids die of hunger every year
Edited on Wed Feb-16-05 05:17 PM by wtmusic
where the fuck are their priorities?!
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:35 PM
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12. The profiteers' priority is profit,...not people.
They spend all human resources to acquire, acquire, acquire.

For profiteers, the proposition that war delivers peace makes sense: it brings peace of mind to the money-changers who care nothing for the rest of humanity.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 06:02 PM
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17. Worldwide, a child dies every 8 seconds from contaminated water. . .
that's more than 10,800 every day, or almost 4 million every year. Yet we will get apoplectic with rage and spend billions to wage war over the death of a former prime minister.

Yes, where are our priorities? Why can't we see the value we'd incur from positive behavior versus the negligible benefit of acting out of rage?
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 06:49 AM
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28. ....with faith based organizations!
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:18 PM
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5. "It has to be clear that terrorist activity is not going to be tolerated"
Does that mena we're going to bomb the south?:shrug:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:18 PM
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6. Okay, they all need to be fired immediately. Cr@p!
This Senate just does not learn from its mistakes. Show me the proof that Syria was behind this. While at it, show me the WMD, Saddam's lunch with Usama, Jeff Gannon's body of journalistic work and the FAA tapes from the morning of 9/11.

If I roll my good eye one more time, I'll pull something.

:argh:
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PsychoDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:08 AM
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31. All they care about are...
Edited on Thu Feb-17-05 07:10 AM by PsychoDad
Their yearly pay raise and getting re-elected. Beside that they exist in a freaking coma like state while inside the beltway.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:19 PM
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7. a bunch of grandstanders
I hope they got around to asking questions about the budget. :eyes:
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:20 PM
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8. Correction - "war mongers" as for tougher action vs Syria
don't include people with a brain in this PNAC fantasy
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:20 PM
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9. Sadaam Al Queda 9/11 - Syria Assassination Terrorism: guilt by loose assoc
association.
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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:32 PM
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10. Democrat Barbara Boxer of California also backed action against Syria.
``They are nothing but troublemakers,'' Representative Steven Rothman, a Democrat of New Jersey, said of the Syrians.

We may have no say over the Reps, but what is up with the Dems?
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 06:40 PM
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23. nothing new
Edited on Wed Feb-16-05 07:09 PM by mmonk
They've always wanted to get Syria.
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jean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:32 PM
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11. What about 'bold,' Sen. Allen? Are we no longer BOLD?
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ElectroPrincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 06:56 AM
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29. If there is a higher power in heaven ...
I hope the good people of Virginia will vote out this RW spastic Senator when he comes up for re-election.

Sen Warner (R) has many, emphasis MANY wrong opinions and misconceptions. However, he comes across as genuinely concerned and a person of good character.

But Senator Allen, as Lynn Cheney would say about ANY Democrat, "IS NOT A GOOD MAN."
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:36 PM
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13. LOL! Did you read thuis quote? From a Democrat no less....
``They are nothing but troublemakers,'' Representative Steven Rothman, a Democrat of New Jersey, said of the Syrians.

... ah steve honey, the WORLD has been saying that about the USA for FOUR years now!

:eyes:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 06:02 AM
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27. Even longer than that, unfortunately.
I was a kid visiting El Salvador in '68. They already wanted us to go away already :(
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tnlefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:38 PM
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14. Among them Sen. Barbara Boxer...I could just cry.
I now reside in the state of disappointment. I'll go cry in my room now.
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Blue to the bone Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:51 PM
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15. We can't even control Iraq's borders with Syria.......
How the hell is Bush going to do anything about Greater Syria?

Folly.
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ElectroPrincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:02 AM
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30. Don't cry but chalk it up to "the political" game that ALL POLITICIANS
must play to survive in BushWorld.

It's true: What do you call 200 politicians at the bottom of the ocean?

Answer: A good start.

Politicians, by their very nature have to be duplicitous to survive.

I don't idolize any one person (well, with the exception of my father), that helps in keeping touch with reality.

However, they're a necessary evil. We make politicians DO THEIR JOB only through the threat of getting them voted out of office come their next re-election campaign.

Thank goodness for MoveOn.org!
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 05:55 PM
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16. I've heard thories that it was the Saudis
Hariri worked very closely with the Saudi Royal family in banking matter.
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Blue to the bone Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 06:28 PM
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19. Yes he did, and there is no evidence....
....that the Syrians had anything to do with this. This is just another of this criminal administration's attempts at stirring the pot in order to justify military action.

See my sig line.....it applies to the whole damned bunch!
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 06:33 PM
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20. I'd have doubts about that.
Generally, when the Saudis have someone killed, they prefer to be a lot quieter and more subtle about it. It's not impossible, but this strikes me as somebody else, someone with more disregard for the municipal tranquility.
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Blue to the bone Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 06:36 PM
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22. Why couldn't it be Islamic Fundamentalists?
Edited on Wed Feb-16-05 06:38 PM by Blue to the bone
They hate the Saudis and anyone who is associated with them.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 06:34 PM
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21. CO Liberal Presses Senators for Tougher Action on Rice
Like firing her skinny, skanky ass.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 07:06 PM
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24. We need another war for peace
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 10:19 PM
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25. All these Repugs must go! The world sanity and survival de-
mand it. It is time to get tough and smart simultaneously.
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springhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 10:29 PM
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26. The United States is behind the assassination......
I feel it in my gut. All eyes on Syria now, making them a threat that has to be dealt with; just what this administration is looking for.
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jasop Donating Member (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:08 AM
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32. Absolutely Agree 100% n/t
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:55 AM
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34. Yes. Lots less messy than allowing another attack in the USA.
If this can get the ball rolling, another 9/11 might not be necessary.

Of course, a draft will be needed to support new campaigns--& the death of a foreign politician might not be sufficient motivation for that.
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