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2003-01-19 Home Front

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-01-19 10:06 am|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm not sure I'm completly comfortable with 'Gulf War the sequel', but I DO understand and respect the US motivations (plus backing-off now would be terrible your credibility, which would be bad news for us europeans, even if we hate to admit so), and theses stoopid jerks are so self-righteous they make me nauseous. Btw, a small antiwar rally in Turkey ended with riot-cops beating people live on tv, turkish-style. What do you pay the Washington police for, I ask you ?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-01-19 13:19:31|| 2003-01-19 13:19:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Anon, live in DC for a while and you'll discover that we pay the Washington police to do ... well, nothing much. Ask any local about crime in the city and police responsiveness.

Posted by Steve White 2003-01-19 14:03:25|| 2003-01-19 14:03:25|| Front Page Top

#3 By some accounts the anti-Chavez demonstration in Miami was larger than the Anti-War protest in Washington and it got almost zero media coverage.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-01-19 22:34:36|| 2003-01-19 22:34:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Well and good we got Sammy out of Kuwait in '91, but isn't "freedom" a bit of a stretch for the situation there?

Posted by VAMark 2003-01-19 23:28:35|| 2003-01-19 23:28:35|| Front Page Top

#5 With regard to Kuwait, we're talking comparatives. Compared to Iraq, Kuwait's very moderate.

Posted by Fred 2003-01-20 00:22:36|| 2003-01-20 00:22:36|| Front Page Top

#6 VAMark: They're definitely better off now than they would have been if Saddam had not been driven out. I agree, however, that they're not better off than they were pre-invasion.

We're going in in order to prevent attacks on us in the long run. Kuwait is more of a friend to us NOW, after GW-I, than they were pre GW-I: They're our main staging area now. We're not the types to look a gift horse in the mouth...

Posted by Ptah 2003-01-20 06:50:53|| 2003-01-20 06:50:53|| Front Page Top

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