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To: goldstategop
OK, let's have a debate - not about the Federation v the Romulans but about present day reality. Now much do you think the movie foreshadows America's impending conflict with its Iraqi nemesis?

Dunno - I haven't seen it yet. I will tonight though.

So is Saddam a chilling nemesis with a deadly plot in mind to require immediate action against him?

Well, if the performance of his vaunted "Republican Guard" back during Storm holds any portent in this case, Saddam is a Potemkin village and/or a Romulan holding a disruptor with a dead power cell. While I believe he's working as hard as he can to acquire WMD and might have acquired some of the necessary bits and pieces, I find it hard to believe that he has any in a form that could be used directly against the United States with lethal effect. Yet.

In the case of home-brew nukes, he would surely have tested one by now if he had any at all - his vaingloriousness would have demanded it.

In the modern-day soap opera of Star Trek, the Romulans are cousins of the race of creatures known as Vulcans. While Vulcans are coolly logical and can be good friends to humanity, Romulans wield whatever logic they possess through an almost satanic filter of plotting, scheming, and political intrigue. Referring to Saddam as a Romulan, in my opinion, gives him way too much credit. Call him a rogue Klingon general who has a h***-on for the Federation and call me out of here for today.

19 posted on 12/13/2002 6:05:50 AM PST by strela
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To: strela
Referring to Saddam as a Romulan, in my opinion, gives him way too much credit.

Agreed. How about comparing him to a Deneebian Slime Devil?

21 posted on 12/13/2002 6:13:11 AM PST by Cincinatus
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To: strela
In the modern-day soap opera of Star Trek, the Romulans are cousins of the race of creatures known as Vulcans.

Romulans = Arabs and the Vulcans = Jews ?

After all the Vulcans only had one planet in the Federation (Israel) and the Romulans built an Empire (the Arab League) ......

life imitates are bump.

25 posted on 12/13/2002 6:24:36 AM PST by Centurion2000
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