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9/11 'not as bad' as IRA blasts (2007 Nobel prize winner)
AFP on News24 ^ | October 21, 2007 | AFP

Posted on 10/21/2007 12:05:19 PM PDT by MaestroLC

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What an imbecile. Nobel is a joke.
1 posted on 10/21/2007 12:05:22 PM PDT by MaestroLC
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To: MaestroLC

Al Gore?


2 posted on 10/21/2007 12:08:25 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: MaestroLC
"Everyone is weary of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever," Lessing said of Bush

Is she not smart enough to tell us which it is?

3 posted on 10/21/2007 12:11:09 PM PDT by woofie
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...two prominent buildings fell...

Omitting the damage and deaths at the Pentagon, as well as the plane crash in Pennsylvania. Nice.

4 posted on 10/21/2007 12:11:42 PM PDT by jdm
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To: MaestroLC

On ‘yer bike, Doris...


5 posted on 10/21/2007 12:12:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Donate.)
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To: woofie

“Either he is stupid or he is very clever,” Lessing said of Bush”

At least with her there is no choice involved.

JUST STOOOOOPID!


6 posted on 10/21/2007 12:15:50 PM PDT by gc4nra ( this tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment (I voted for McClintock))
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To: woofie

To avoid cognitive dissonance, at various times she chooses one or the other to be true.


7 posted on 10/21/2007 12:17:12 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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“Some Americans believe I’m crazy. “

That’s a 10-4 little buddy.


8 posted on 10/21/2007 12:18:02 PM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: MaestroLC

I’m disappointed in Doris Lessing. She started out as a Communist, but left the party and seemed to be making sense in her later novels. I guess not.

Not to excuse everything the IRA did, they were fighting for Irish liberation from centuries of British oppression. I say that although I am in general an Anglophile.

Also, with very few exceptions, they phoned warnings before bombs went off, and went out of their way to avoid killing innocent civilians. The IRA Provos, a splinter group, were less considerate, but even they were not nearly as evil as al Qaeda.

In recent years the IRA has kept the truce, even though the other side has not kept its promises to let them share power in the government.


9 posted on 10/21/2007 12:19:09 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

bttt


10 posted on 10/21/2007 12:22:13 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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"Some Americans believe I'm crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor so extraordinary as they think," Lessing said of the 2001 attacks in New York and Washington in which about 3 000 people were killed.

This American thinks you're crazy as a coot, honey. If 3000 dead in two flaming skyscrapers wasn't "extraordinary" then perhaps you might come up with another instance remotely resembling it? No? And if 3000 innocent people dead in a flaming holocaust wasn't "terrible" then what was it?

11 posted on 10/21/2007 12:22:39 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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I wasn’t aware that the IRA killed nearly 3000 people in the space of a few hours.


12 posted on 10/21/2007 12:27:23 PM PDT by skr (How majestic is Thy Name, O Lord, and how mighty are Thy Works!)
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wow. I never cease to be amazed at how Providence educates.

No sooner than Al Gore wins a Nobel a bunch of the Laureates are revealed to be lunatics.

13 posted on 10/21/2007 12:32:26 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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...two prominent buildings fell... Omitting the damage and deaths at the Pentagon, as well as the plane crash in Pennsylvania. Nice.

not to mention 3000+ innocent lives.

14 posted on 10/21/2007 12:33:16 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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9/11 wasn’t too bad when compared to the impact of lots of other tragedies, most especially when measured over time. But, the fact remains that it was the most horrific single attack on the US mainland in history. And, denigrating it can serve no purpose except to the benefit of the enemy which is yet to be vanquished — and, therefore, anyone that does denigrate it is, in fact, part of the enemy.
15 posted on 10/21/2007 12:39:39 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/violence/death95w.htm


16 posted on 10/21/2007 12:39:55 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (Star Wars teaches us a foreboding lesson--evil emperors start out as Senators)
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Doris, put down that crack pipe!

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E6DE1539F934A25754C0A9649C8B63

“Of the 1,800 people killed by the I.R.A. since the late 1960’s, about 650 were civilians rather than members of security forces or paramilitary organizations.”

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/109/story_10949_1.html

“Among the more than 3,600 people killed in political-sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, Britain and the Republic of Ireland since 1968, the IRA and rival anti-British groups were responsible for more than 2,000 dead.”

http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/troubles/major_killings.html

(Detailed list)


17 posted on 10/21/2007 12:42:36 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: All; MaestroLC

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NEVER FORGET

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The Man who predicted 9/11 =

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9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P.

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(RICK RESCORLA Foundation Website)
http://www.RickRescorla.com

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(RICK RESCORLA ‘Follow Me’ Statue unveiling Pictures - Ft. Benning, Georgia)
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm

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(RICK RESCORLA’s Rest of the Story)
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361

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NEVER FORGET

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18 posted on 10/21/2007 12:44:50 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Cicero

“Not to excuse everything the IRA did, they were fighting for Irish liberation from centuries of British oppression. I say that although I am in general an Anglophile.”


Of course, many in Northern Ireland see the union as necessary to prevent having to live under Roman Catholic dominated government.


19 posted on 10/21/2007 12:50:12 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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"Everyone is weary of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever..." LOL He is nothing more than a mouthpiece for a gigantic bureaucratic conglomeration of mind, media, will and opinion. He does not make the plans, he "legally enacts" them. He is a robot... So who is Supid?
20 posted on 10/21/2007 12:51:26 PM PDT by Melinator (testing... test, test, test, Is this thing on?)
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