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1 posted on 11/13/2004 2:09:25 AM PST by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil

I can't imagine there were that many commercial flights anyway.


2 posted on 11/13/2004 2:13:28 AM PST by leadpenny
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It's a smart move. You don't want to give the terrorists a cheap victory to distract from their kind getting blasted out of Iraq.


4 posted on 11/13/2004 2:15:03 AM PST by ProudVet77 (02NOV04 - America to Kerry "Your fired!")
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To: BlackVeil
desperate

Is that so? Hmm....

10 posted on 11/13/2004 3:02:32 AM PST by IStillBelieve (G.W. Bush '04: Biggest popular-vote victory in history, and first popular-vote majority in 16 years!)
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To: BlackVeil
desperate

Is that so? Hmm....

11 posted on 11/13/2004 3:02:35 AM PST by IStillBelieve (G.W. Bush '04: Biggest popular-vote victory in history, and first popular-vote majority in 16 years!)
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To: BlackVeil
in a desperate bid to curb unrest

Desperate does not describe Alawi nearly as much as it does the insurgents.

They know...that after Fallujah will be...

14 posted on 11/13/2004 4:09:03 AM PST by Tom Bombadil
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Allawi on Monday decided to shut the airport for 48 hours after he declared a state of emergency in a desperate bid to curb unrest engulfing the country.

And they wonder why many of us think that the MSM has a decidedly leftward bias. The declaration of a state of emergency is certainly part of an overall attempt to curb unrest, but this fact alone doesn't make it "desperate." Not even close.

25 posted on 11/13/2004 7:42:51 AM PST by kesg
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"desperate bid to curb unrest engulfing ..."

no bias here.


38 posted on 11/15/2004 10:09:58 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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