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2005-12-02 Europe

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-12-02 00:55|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The capture of Bouchar...surprised police there. They had thought he was just another Middle Easterner traveling illegally through the country until an Interpol fingerprint check revealed his identity... He...spent time in Austrian and Hungarian jails, but was freed. No one in either country checked his fingerprints.

Thus demonstrating the importance of basic police procedure, and of controlling the borders against illegal immigrants.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-12-02 08:36|| 2005-12-02 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Ten years of the usual ineffectual UN administration in the Balkans shows why the US isn't allowing the kiddies to rebuild Iraq. The UN leadership is completely blind to the pace of development occuring in Iraq being contrasted to their quagmire in the Balkans. The terrorists are moving to more friendly areas generally associated with failed governments. That certainly is the case with the UN handling of the Balkans.

Posted by Whease Glaitch2820 2005-12-02 08:46|| 2005-12-02 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The EU will handles this with its multi-national Rapid Action Batallions. There is no need for the unilateralists from the U. S. to be involved. Why doesn't Murtha want to withdraw immediately from this quagmire?

Posted by Omaing Throtch1928 2005-12-02 09:28|| 2005-12-02 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I stand ready to command the combined navies.

Posted by Capt V Trapp 2005-12-02 11:24|| 2005-12-02 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Anything to get 'em out of the house. I'ma sick of this Abel Weiss, Abel Weiss shit. Who cares?

Posted by Maria 2005-12-02 11:26|| 2005-12-02 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Edelweiss makes a lovely wine ..... and so pretty against the new grass in the Swiss alps.

Posted by Swiss maid 2005-12-02 11:49|| 2005-12-02 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Think of the gross Maria.

In very town'
Only sell reserved seats'
Turn most people down

Charge high admissions;
Let people wait;
That will make them think they're
Seeing something great!

Our picture will grab
All the loot it can get
And with music like this
The LP's a sure bet!

With all these profits,
Things will be fine!
When we top " Fair Lady
Vengeeeeeeeece will beeeeeeeeee mine!

Posted by Capt. V Trapp 2005-12-02 11:49|| 2005-12-02 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Why doesn't Murtha want to withdraw immediately from this quagmire?

Americans killed in Bosnia: 0
Americans killed in Iraq: 2000+

I'm taking a wild guess and saying it's because American lives matter to Murtha.

The UN leadership is completely blind to the pace of development occuring in Iraq being contrasted to their quagmire in the Balkans

Yes, certainly people in Iraq are being slaughtered and the whole Iraqi nation is headed towards Islamofascist control at a much much faster pace than is happening with the Balkans. Where "pace" is concerned, Iraq has Bosnia beat.

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2005-12-02 16:11|| 2005-12-02 16:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Yup, living is all that matters to a European. Never too low to bow.

Posted by Choluth Jairt4214 2005-12-02 16:14|| 2005-12-02 16:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Murtha isn't European AFAIK, Choluth. Please focus.

And up to now I think I was being accused of following idealistic principles without regards as to the waste of lives my principles (principles such as opposing the torture of innocents) would supposedly cause. Am not dumb enough to expect consistency in your personal attacks ofcourse.

But one thing is indeed true, Choluth. I value human lives more than one such as you could imagine.

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2005-12-02 16:57|| 2005-12-02 16:57|| Front Page Top

#11 I value human lives more than one such as you could imagine.

Yes, you are so much better than me and the other mortals on this planet. Why I would never attack such a wonderful person.

Posted by Choluth Jairt4214 2005-12-02 17:11|| 2005-12-02 17:11|| Front Page Top

#12 It's not about me being better than anyone else, it's that you are so much worse -- as shown by the immediate mocking contempt you showed towards the idea of saving lives, without even bothering to elevate a different principle in its place.

Cheers.

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2005-12-02 18:08|| 2005-12-02 18:08|| Front Page Top

#13 bzzzz

wrong answer, it is about you.

Posted by Fluns Groluth7841 2005-12-02 18:28|| 2005-12-02 18:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Why doesn't Murtha want to withdraw immediately from this quagmire?
Americans killed in Bosnia: 0
Americans killed in Iraq: 2000+
I'm taking a wild guess and saying it's because American lives matter to Murtha.

BZZZZT - You don't know dick about American politics, Aris, you just assume you do, because you wikipedia'd Murtha. He's a hawk ONLY when compared to Cynthia McKinney. He's playing retreat politics and the American people don't buy it. His Donk cohorts wouldn't even show the spine to vote what they's been mouthing off for weeks. You'd learn more if you used your receptive senses instead of delivering pap from an ingorant

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-02 19:09|| 2005-12-02 19:09|| Front Page Top

#15 I didn't wikipedia Murtha, am not sure where you get that idea.

"He's a hawk ONLY when compared to Cynthia McKinney."

I didn't claim that he was a hawk. Where did you get that idea either?

He's playing retreat politics and the American people don't buy it. His Donk cohorts wouldn't even show the spine to vote what they'd been mouthing off for weeks.

Actually Murtha himself didn't vote on the bill that the Republicans brought forth -- and which wasn't Murtha's own. What the Republicans did was the definition of "constucting a strawman", creating their own false version of the opponent's argument just in order to tear it down and pretend they won.

Actually it seems to be what you are now doing also, when you claimed that *I* claimed Murtha to be a hawk.

You'd learn more if you used your receptive senses instead of delivering pap from an ingorant

I have no idea what "delivering pap from an ingorant" means.

Anyway, even if Murtha is "playing retreat politics", my point remains: I'm taking a wild guess that the reason he picked to play such politics over Iraq vs over Bosnia, it's that it's in Iraq and NOT in Bosnia that American soldiers are getting killed.

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2005-12-02 19:18|| 2005-12-02 19:18|| Front Page Top

#16 ingorant? LOL, PIMF. Wiki is your acknowledged source of Americana. Murtha cares about lives - apparently not Iraqi lives or the lives of Americans who will be viewed as weak (as they were under Carter and Clinton) and ineffectual. A hawk is the standard reference to buttress "Murtha's a patriot" defense of his dirtpoor judgement and proposals

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-02 19:45|| 2005-12-02 19:45|| Front Page Top

#17

Actually Aris the US military has drawdown plans that start in 2006. The only way it could have been done quicker as Murtha demanded would be immediate withdrawal. The Republicans used almost the identical terminology that Murtha did and he still voted against it because when he made his comments he didn't expect to be held to them.

Either he is woefully unaware of what is going on in Iraq in which case he should not be commenting or making demands but should be doing basic research or we was playing partisan games and had his bluff called.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-12-02 19:55|| 2005-12-02 19:55|| Front Page Top

#18 BTW - Bosnia is OK in the Donk pantheon for us to fight and die for - we have no interests there. It was also started by a Donk president and Gen Weasely Clark got his merit badge there.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-02 19:55|| 2005-12-02 19:55|| Front Page Top

#19 "ingorant?"

Yes, I don't know what that word means. Actually I don't know what "pap" means either. In fact I also don't know what "PIMF" means. And I'm too tired of your games to look them up.

Wiki is your acknowledged source of Americana

Not acknowledged as such by me, Frankie -- you've become so devoted to your lies and slanders that you can't even tell them yourself from truth anymore.

A hawk is the standard reference to buttress "Murtha's a patriot" defense of his dirtpoor judgement and proposals

Well, I for once certainly don't believe that only hawks can be patriots; the qualities are about as orthogonal as religion and morality. There are quite a few unpatriotic warmongers -- and quite a few patriotic pacifists.

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2005-12-02 20:05|| 2005-12-02 20:05|| Front Page Top

#20 Bosnia is OK in the Donk pantheon for us to fight and die for

Did you actually have *any* American casualties in Bosnia? Or are you just speaking in the Deceptive Hypothetical, namely that you might have had casualties?

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2005-12-02 20:14|| 2005-12-02 20:14|| Front Page Top

#21 PIMF - "Preview is my friend" - meaning, yup, I f*&ked up, and didn't preview to catch it.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-02 20:15|| 2005-12-02 20:15|| Front Page Top

#22 aris...the US goal is to elevate the Iraqis to be a free and independant people/country. Zark and the boomers have no such goals. Their goal and 'values' are death to themselves and all strange infidels, like you...they really think killing is fun...so why aren't you trying to Murtha-ise them out of Iraq?

Posted by mjslack 2005-12-02 20:18|| 2005-12-02 20:18|| Front Page Top

#23 Murtha's Message 2005

"the U.S. armed forces are broken, worn out, and living hand to mouth."

Huh, worn out?? Murtha must have amnesia or Alzheimers.

Guess he forgot about Battan, Corregidor, Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Bougainville, Midway, The Slot, Sulu Sea, Coral Sea, Java, Leyte, Truk, Philipines, Saipan, Iwo, Okinawa, D Day, hedgerows, The Ardennes, Sicily, Anzio, frozen Chosin, etc.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-12-02 21:02|| 2005-12-02 21:02|| Front Page Top

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