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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 10:23 PM Original message |
Almost Dawn in Libya: Chris & Tim, Heading Home |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yes, and if we hadn't intervened, they'd probably still be alive. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 10:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I don't understand that logic. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 12:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. I too mourn the deaths of two brave and talented journalists but understand the logic. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:02 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. There will be no boots on the ground. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:55 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. There have already been boots on the ground and NATO is considering more boots now. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:47 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I know very well that there are agents in the country. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:12 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Please excuse for saying your perception was naive. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:53 AM Response to Reply #29 |
57. A few responses |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:54 AM Response to Reply #23 |
35. Kristof's whole column is based on the premise |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:59 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. You'll note that no one disputes that Gaddafi was riding on Benghazi. |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. source, please? |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:54 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Links |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:30 AM Response to Reply #25 |
32. I see. The "rebels" say so; that's an authoritative source per you. whatever. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:06 AM Response to Reply #32 |
38. As far as the yahoo story goes, it's entirely possible that the handful |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:07 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. i was talking about the source for "10,000 killed by khaddafi" = tnc |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:11 AM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Btw, I went to the TNC site about a week ago |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:13 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. degrees in privatization. i knew ed deform was making inroads into universities, but damn. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:23 AM Response to Reply #43 |
47. The other thing I wanted to mention to you is Chivers, the author of the OP material |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:32 AM Response to Reply #47 |
51. Yeah, and a day later when called on it the TNC pledged to remove them: |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
37. Your second and third links are ridiculous. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:22 AM Response to Reply #37 |
46. Are you serious? You sound like those people saying "it's not that bad in Bosnia..." |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:25 AM Response to Reply #46 |
49. funny how you have to bring in stalin. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:43 AM Response to Reply #49 |
54. I think the mercenary claims are muddled. |
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Bosonic (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 06:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
59. Libya: coalition air strike 'kills seven civilians' |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 10:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 10:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. That kind of summed up the logic well. |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 11:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. The premise is that the revolt would have been put down by now |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 11:39 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. What has intervention done for Misrata where this photographer took his pictures? |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 12:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. It's hard compete with the lucid soothsaying of the pro-war psychics |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 12:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. You're the one inventing 'facts' like "the revolt would have been put down by now" |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 12:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Where, except in your morally self-exempted head, do you get that QUOTE? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 12:56 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I put 'facts' in quotes for that reason. |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:40 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. No, you're trying to make it look like I specifically said that. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:47 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Loyalists don't have serious firepower? |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 12:10 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. If not that war, they would have been in another. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 11:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. They were a news crew - they would have been there regardless. nt |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 11:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Correct, they would've tried to get in there. |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
17. That's a lot of gobbledygook |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:19 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. It's not at all clear that what is happening in Libya is a revolution. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:48 AM Response to Reply #19 |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:17 AM Response to Reply #19 |
30. Thank you EF. "No my antiwar friends do not support it". |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
6. K&R |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:56 AM Response to Original message |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 03:19 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Incubators? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:31 AM Response to Reply #27 |
33. maybe *you* should. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:33 AM Response to Reply #27 |
34. Journalists were kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed in Honduras |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:24 AM Response to Reply #34 |
48. I know nothing about Honduras. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:40 AM Response to Reply #48 |
53. Report from Reporters without Borders. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 06:19 AM Response to Reply #53 |
58. Well, that is crap. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:45 AM Response to Reply #34 |
56. Chavez is supporting their recognition, too. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 03:22 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Sick and fucking tired of pro-Gaddafi propaganda. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:25 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. I don't defend Qadaffi at all. I want him gone too. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:08 AM Response to Reply #31 |
40. Long story short... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:11 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. bullshit josh. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:15 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Substantiate please. One liners do you no good. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:19 AM Response to Reply #40 |
45. What does the Ivory Coast have to do with the specifics of Libya? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:28 AM Response to Reply #45 |
50. They're similar. UN intervenes in the Ivory Coast = silence. UN intervenes in Libya = outrage. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:38 AM Response to Reply #50 |
52. But they are not similar. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 05:44 AM Response to Reply #52 |
55. Have Bahraini's, Yemeni's, and Syrian's all had to take up arms to fight? |
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