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Mark Steyn: Now it’s up to the Iraqis
The Spectator (U.K.) ^
| 07/05/04
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 07/01/2004 5:55:10 AM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:43:05 AM PDT
by
Gritty
("As the rise of Michael Moore emphasises, this War can only be lost at home-Mark Steyn)
To: scholar; Bullish; linear; yoda swings
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:43:07 AM PDT
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: Pokey78
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:53:27 AM PDT
by
Paul Ross
(Communism is a mental illness. Historical amnesia is its prerequisite.)
To: Pokey78
Thanks for the full Steyn, Pokey.
The biggest private employer in Afghanistan right now is an e-commerce operation based in Salt Lake City thats got 1,700 Afghans on the payroll making rugs, embroidery and jewellery to sell on the Internet.
You can check out some of these products on Overstock.com website.
http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=STORELIST&STO_ID=6
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posted on
07/01/2004 11:24:56 AM PDT
by
baseballmom
(Michael Moore - An American Hatriot)
To: Pokey78
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posted on
07/01/2004 11:27:17 AM PDT
by
UnklGene
To: Pokey78
This story comes round every few months now. November 2003: Iranian men discovered photographing tourist attractions. June 2002: same thing.But including Iran in the "Axis of Evil" was irresponsible and detrimental to good relations with them.
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posted on
07/01/2004 3:08:14 PM PDT
by
irv
To: Pokey78
But Iraq was never really the issue. Goh Chok Tong, the Prime Minister of Singapore and a man who talks a lot more sense than most Continental prime ministers, was in Washington in May and put it in a nutshell: The key issue is no longer WMD or even the role of the UN. The central issue is Americas credibility and will to prevail. Thats always been the question, ever since September 11. And thats the real reason Saddam had to go: he was the living embodiment of the credibility gap. Having cocked a snook at Washington for over a decade, he symbolised the limits of American power. And it was necessary in the wake of 9/11 to make those limits look a lot less limited.
Bingo.
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posted on
07/01/2004 3:13:38 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
07/01/2004 5:18:29 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Tautologies are the only horses I bet on. -- Old Professer)
To: Pokey78; shaggy eel; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...
<< No ostrich feathers, no Princess Alexandra, no tea on the lawn at Government House. After 15 months of running Iraq, the Americans are out .....
..... the Americans have bequeathed [The Iraqis] a better Iraq than the [Heath-Robinson/Rube Goldberg Joint Venture] one the British "invented" [Delusionally-fantasized??] for them eight decades ago: no imported princeling, no rigged referendum installing him as king, no exclusion of the majority population from political power. [Thanks to the same devotion of American Treasure and of American Blood to which Absolutely every last one of the world's even partially FRee men owes his life and his FReedom,] Iraq now has the most representative and progressive government in the Arab world. >>
<< Its not strictly true that the sun never sets on the American Republic, but its up an awful lot of the time. >>
And that it never has and -- barring the election, God forbid, of the traitor, Kerry -- or of another KKKling Tong or [Given the warning provided of the awful consequences that come FRom the example of poor, lazy-Limey-attitude-and-mobbed-up-shopsteward-swamped once-FRee New Zealand] of a sudden overwhelming surge in British migration -- never will!
Great piece and thanks for the ping, Pokes!
Blessings -- B A
BUMPping
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:30:48 PM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I'm a hyphenated American. An AMERICAN-American! -- Thank You, God! -- And a Dollar a Day FReeper!)
To: Pokey78
....this war can only be won abroad. ....it can only be lost at home. Truth.
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posted on
07/01/2004 11:30:08 PM PDT
by
Bullish
To: Pokey78
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posted on
07/02/2004 12:21:25 AM PDT
by
Ruth A.
To: Brian Allen
,,, wake me up will ya Brian, as soon as you hear "John effin" proclaiming he was a veteran of Iraq.
He has zero to do with the fact that Iraqi hospitals are able to treat their own population now. Any measure of freedom in that country those people now enjoy - he can shut his "effin" mouth... he has so little to do with it any positive outcomes at all.
To: Brian Allen
I see that you have posted two replies to Steyn articles (one over a year old) with insults to our British allies on them. I think this is baiting, and ask that you please stop.
To: Miss Marple
<< I think ..... >>
That's nice.
Agatha'll be pleased. [When she turns up]
Welcome to the FRaternity.
Blessings -- Brian
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posted on
07/02/2004 3:18:03 AM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I'm a hyphenated American. An AMERICAN-American! -- Thank You, God! -- And a Dollar a Day FReeper!)
To: Pokey78
Well, something’s changed in the last couple of years, and those left-wing stragglers are a lot less malnourished. Last weekend Michael Moore ROFL!
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posted on
07/02/2004 8:56:26 AM PDT
by
Smile-n-Win
(When dealing with tyrants, a "peaceful solution" must only be considered as the very last resort.)
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