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Dumbest phrase award:"Proportionate response to terrorism"
July 20, 2006 | Seeing More Clearly Now

Posted on 07/20/2006 9:29:51 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now

War on terrorism's most idiotic phrase to date: "Proportionate response to terrorism."

How do Kofi and the friends of terror manage to say it with a straight face?

It follows the same logic as being a little bit pregnant.


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KEYWORDS: annan; appeasement; hezbolah; kofi

1 posted on 07/20/2006 9:29:54 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Proportionate response?

How about Israel pay them back for all the attacks that have gone unanswered the past 50 years?
2 posted on 07/20/2006 9:32:04 PM PDT by msnimje
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

Proportionate response = "They pull a knife, you pull a gun" </ Chicago Rules of Engagement>


3 posted on 07/20/2006 9:34:02 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Liberalism's main product is Destruction and Death.)
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To: msnimje

I have no problem with the concept of "proportionate response".

I do, however, have a problem with the suggestion that Israel has exceeded theirs.


4 posted on 07/20/2006 9:34:08 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

Absurd, that is all I can say!


5 posted on 07/20/2006 9:34:08 PM PDT by blondee123
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Yes, and the most cogent question put forth this week,....."When has a 'cease fire' ever resulted in cessation of hostilities?"...John Bolton.


6 posted on 07/20/2006 9:34:50 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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Excuse me,...."When has a 'cease-fire' signed by terrorists ever resulted in cessation of hostilities?"...John Bolton.


7 posted on 07/20/2006 9:36:11 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: msnimje

Yes, you are indeed correct. The phrase should now be taken, embraced, and used by the enemies of terror. Thanks.


8 posted on 07/20/2006 9:38:53 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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More liberal crap - plain and simple. The hand-wringing, milquetoast cowards of the left and their pandering to, and appeasement of, terrorists is sickening.


9 posted on 07/20/2006 9:39:14 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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"Proportionate response to terrorism"

That's such an innocuous phrase. It won't happen but if Muslim hijackers were to ram a plane into the U.N. building in NYC, I wonder what the surviving U.N. personal's idea of a proportionate response to that would be? '

10 posted on 07/20/2006 9:41:28 PM PDT by xJones
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What's a "Proportionate Response" to Asymmetrical Warfare?


11 posted on 07/20/2006 10:57:17 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Texas Songwriter

Definition of Cease Fire: Time period used by hostile forces to regroup and rearm in preparation for continued fighting.


12 posted on 07/20/2006 11:44:08 PM PDT by neb52
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Kofi Annan is the esteemed leader of the efficient, wise and benevolent international community, in a parallel, I must repeat, parallel universe.


13 posted on 07/21/2006 11:33:24 AM PDT by kcar ( All I am saying, is give war a chance.)
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