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I found it during the 2000 election. Electoral processes fascinate me, and the situation in Florida was very interesting from a procedural and technical point of view, and FR was a great place to see all the articles grouped together. After September 11, there was a lot more that I wanted to know about and again FR was a great source of information.

I finally subscribed and posted when Australia during 2004, when I got sick of the ‘Iraq was better off under Saddam’ things that were flying around the media at the time (I served in the first Gulf War - and we should have finished the job then. Won’t argue that things have gone as well as they should have or could have - but once again, that’s more down to political will than anything else - politicians not letting the warriors finish what was started) and have hung around here ever since. It’s a great place to get information and perspectives. And to occasionally explain Australia’s gun laws which get grossly misrepresented by both sides of the gun argument at times (20th anniversary of the Port Arthur Massacre on Thursday - expect it’s likely to come up again this week).