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Old 09-30-2004, 22:46 PM   #16 (permalink)
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And I express support for giving them help if they ask. Sounds to me like you want them to lose, instead of asking for, and being granted, help.
Getting "help" from U.S. imperialism is like attempting sexual congress with a boa constrictor...all possible outcomes are bad.

Far better for the Iranians to "do it themselves"...and not have to put up with any crap from Washington's quislings afterwards.
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Old 09-30-2004, 23:11 PM   #17 (permalink)
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U.S. imperialism
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Will you still find the idea of U.S. imperialism amusing when your draft notice arrives in the mail?
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Old 10-01-2004, 13:42 PM   #19 (permalink)
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I imagine the draft would be pretty scary. I remember my Vietnamese friend asking me to help her fill out forms so that she could get her brothers to Canada before the communists hauled them off to Cambodia to kill other Vietnamese. She was under pressure, since all children had to "serve" once they turned 16.
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...communists hauled them off to Cambodia to kill other Vietnamese. She was under pressure, since all children had to "serve" once they turned 16.
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redstar2000 Will you still find the idea of U.S. imperialism amusing when your draft notice arrives in the mail?
Communist draft - good thing!
Imperialist US draft - bad thing!
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Old 10-01-2004, 20:49 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Will you still find the idea of U.S. imperialism amusing when your draft notice arrives in the mail?
That wouldn't prove "imperialism", just as you haven't been able to. If you can convince the military to overlook my physical lackings I will go, I want to go, I want everyone to have the chance to be free.
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My guess is that this Iranian "revolution" is a propaganda bit put out by Iranian exiles. If there was any substance to it it would be reported in other papers. Indian and Pakistani papers haven't mentioned it, nor has the BBC so far as I know.
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Old 10-01-2004, 22:55 PM   #23 (permalink)
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"And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed that they were not here.
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us" -- Shakespeare
Very poetic fellow, Shakespeare...too bad most of what he wrote was a load of crap.

Consider your chosen example: "manhood = fighting".

Does that make the pitbull a "man"?

A man resorts to violence for rational reasons...which do not, of course, include any form of patriotic drivel.

He who "fights for his country" is a fool.
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Consider your chosen example: "manhood = fighting".
If that's what you get from what I posted, we've found your problem...
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