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Scott Ritter: "The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated.
Independent Online Newspapers ^ | March 26, 2003 | Sapa-AFP

Posted on 03/26/2003 4:30:03 PM PST by dmcg_98

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To: dmcg_98
Just in case anyone hasn't noticed yet: treason is no longer a crime in the United Staes.
161 posted on 03/26/2003 6:40:01 PM PST by WarSlut
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To: CaptainJustice
Does he really need to be talking about anything between someone's legs? He's had problems with that if I remember correctly...

Cap'n, you get my vote more the most succint and hillarious comment of the day.

BTW Thanks for the laugh.

162 posted on 03/26/2003 6:41:43 PM PST by woofer
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To: hole_n_one
I too follow the [brackets] convention. But the fact remains that posters will entitle their threads as they see fit.
163 posted on 03/26/2003 6:44:49 PM PST by Maedhros (I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.)
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To: dmcg_98
Scott Ritter doubles dates with Roman Polanski.
164 posted on 03/26/2003 6:45:14 PM PST by pbear8 ( sed libera nos a malo)
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To: dmcg_98
Saddams butt boy shooting off his mouth again
165 posted on 03/26/2003 6:50:18 PM PST by Mo1
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To: Maedhros
There have been too many duplicate threads lately. A search is easy to do, but is not 100% foolproof, nonetheless, it is very effective. The Free Republic search feature only looks at words in the title (words from within the article will not work). That is why it is imperative to use the original title.
166 posted on 03/26/2003 6:55:49 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: dmcg_98

Scott Ritter  ....is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated.

Funny how a couple hits on DELETE makes the story better!
BTW, since this "news" came from Ritter, I *know* it's bull$hit.

V for Victory

V_for_Victory

167 posted on 03/26/2003 7:00:19 PM PST by GirlShortstop
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To: dmcg_98
And Ritter left Iraq with his head firmly planted up his arse.
168 posted on 03/26/2003 7:02:25 PM PST by hope
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To: hole_n_one; Maedhros
That is why it is imperative to use the original title.

5 entries found for imperative.

im·per·a·tive   Audio pronunciation of "imperative" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (m-pr-tv)
adj.
  1. Expressing a command or plea; peremptory: requests that grew more and more imperative.
  2. Having the power or authority to command or control.
  3. Grammar. Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.
  4. Impossible to deter or evade; pressing: imperative needs. See Synonyms at urgent.

n.
    1. A command; an order.
    2. An obligation; a duty: social imperatives.
  1. A rule, principle, or instinct that compels a certain behavior: a people driven to aggression by territorial imperatives.
  2. Grammar.
    1. The imperative mood.
    2. A verb form of the imperative mood.


[Middle English imperatif, relating to the imperative mood, from Old French, from Late Latin impertvus, from Latin impertus, past participle of imperre, to command. See emperor.]
im·pera·tive·ly adv.
im·pera·tive·ness n.


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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imperative

\Im*per"a*tive\, a. [L. imperativus, fr. imperare to command; pref. im- in + parare to make ready, prepare: cf. F. imp['e]ratif. See Perade, and cf. Empire.] 1. Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

The suit of kings are imperative. --Bp. Hall.

2. Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

3. (Gram.) Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

imperative

\Im*per"a*tive\, n. (Gram.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

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imperative

adj 1: requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative" [ant: beseeching] 2: (grammar) relating to verbs in the imperative mood n 1: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior [syn: imperative mood, jussive mood] 2: some duty that is essential and urgent

169 posted on 03/26/2003 7:02:40 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: dmcg_98; PeaceBeWithYou; nicmarlo
Who the #$@& does this perverted SOB think he is??????
170 posted on 03/26/2003 7:13:10 PM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: CyberAnt
This statement by Ritter is obviously to continue his anti-American stance - and it makes me still wonder what somebody is holding over his head. I'm still convinced he did something which he got caught at - and because of that - they have been able to use him as a mouthpiece. Sad state of Affairs.

The pedophile thing is probably just the tip of a very incriminating iceberg. But, this man has gone too far, in my estimation. His only real hope would be to stay out of the limelight, and hope we all forget his insane, treasonous, anti-american actions and pronouncements. But the idiot keeps running his big fool mouth. If he continues, he will cross that line... and LOSE his country. He will deserve lifetime exile, in the squalid arab despotism of his choice, never to return to the United States. I don't think anything is quite worth that.

171 posted on 03/26/2003 7:17:25 PM PST by Richard Axtell
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To: sweetliberty; dmcg_98; PeaceBeWithYou
He must have forgotten to say:

....but the Brits, Scots, Aussies, Poles, et al. will win it for the US! : )

172 posted on 03/26/2003 7:19:58 PM PST by nicmarlo
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173 posted on 03/26/2003 7:26:33 PM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: hole_n_one
1. I reject your premises.

2. Just for the sake of argument, I accept your premises.

3.

7 entries found for original.

o·rig·i·nal Audio pronunciation of "original" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-rj-nl)
adj.
  1. Preceding all others in time; first.
    1. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual: an original play, not an adaptation.
    2. Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new: a truly original approach. See Synonyms at new.
  2. Productive of new things or new ideas; inventive: an original mind.
  3. Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.

n.
  1. A first form from which other forms are made or developed: Later models of the car retained many features of the original.
    1. An authentic work of art: bought an original, not a print.
    2. Work that has been composed firsthand: kept the original but sent a photocopy to his publisher.
  2. A person who is appealingly odd or curious; a character.
  3. Archaic. The source from which something arises; an originator.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin orginlis, from org, orgin-, source. See origin.]


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\O*rig"i*nal\, n. [Cf. F. original.] 1. Origin; commencement; source.

It hath it original from much grief. --Shak.

And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. --Addison.

2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.

The Scriptures may be now read in their own original. --Milton.

3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]

Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. --C. G. Leland.

4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]

5. (Zo["o]l. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

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original

\O*rig"i*nal\, a. [F. original, L. originalis.] 1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. --Milton.

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original

adj 1: preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement" 2: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" 3: being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: unoriginal] 4: not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French" n 1: an original (audio recording) from which copies can be made [syn: master, master copy] 2: an original model on which something is patterned [syn: archetype, pilot]

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original: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

Source: On-line Medical Dictionary, © 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB

4. It appears that you picked an unfortunate word with which to describe titles.


174 posted on 03/26/2003 7:27:54 PM PST by Maedhros (I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.)
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To: Argus
"Suggest we strap Ritter and Michael Moore together and drop the resulting 2,000 pound bomb on the enemy"

ROTFLMBO!!!! Maybe I'm just over tired, but that just struck me really funny.

175 posted on 03/26/2003 7:30:56 PM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: dmcg_98
Baghdad can, and will, liberate itself.

Saddam Hussein is dead. His sons are dead. Chemical Ali is dead. Thousands of soldiers from the Medina, Nebekenezer and the Free Mumia divisions are dead. The oil wells, pipelines and terminals are secure. The Patriot missles work. The Iraqis cannot kill our personnel without deception, ambush and POW execution. The American people understand the enormity of the stakes. We will find Weapons of Mass Destruction, we will be greeted by a joyful Iraqi liberated people, we will act humanely yet decisively in War and in the return of Iraqi land and resource to the Iraqi people. That's what we do.

What exists today, IMO, is a cabal of the most senior Baath Party functionaries, their trusted and murderous SS/Gestapo like security and police detail, a defense strategy designed to maximize the death of Iraqi civilians through alleged coalition murder, and most importantly, a co-ordinated propaganda machine abetted by Al Jazeera, Reuters, free lance international journalists and media to invent, stage, amplify and present graphic imagery of innocent civilian carnage, bogus staging of heroic Iraqi citizen resolve and powerful counterattack, and a 24X7 presentation of a moribund Coalition military campaign and a universal World opposition to its existence.

I may even construct a LONGER and more clumsy sentence than the one above, just because I'm so jazzed to be an American right now.

These Baghdad perverts want a diplomatic out. They think Bush will wilt under an increasing domestic unease from 24X7 bombardment of images of Iraqi civilian casualties and a seeming military gridlock.

I can very well see Jaques Chirac and Kofi Annan on the phone with Aziz and that VP: "Don't panic. Don't launch the happy gas. Work the plan, string this out. Create the landscape of innocent death and destruction. Give us a moral high ground to exploit in our media and international forums. Keep a stranglehold on your citizens. Create some time for the martyr sons of jihad to operate against American and British targets. We need time, if we're going to get a U.N. outcome that saves all our asses."

Bush won't play that game. We've got guys on the ground who WILL go house to house after Saddam's thugs if they hide among the innocents. The Brits are best in the world in close urban military tactics and training - they've heard of a town named Belfast. The Kurds will steamroll Tikrid from the North. The people of Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and Najaf will be fed, clothed, protected and given medical care. The terrorist thugs will be rooted out and killed, one by one. There is no central opposition, this is a last ditch desparation ploy by the Saddam Gangsta crew to delay for a French or U.N. rescue. Wrongo. They executed our young soldiers, shot them in the head point blank for the entertainment of their fans in shitholes around the Arab world.

This thing has an ending, and it guarantees that Saddam and his butchers are dead, and that Iraqis are delivered from a living hell, and that the civilized world is significantly safer and our path to scumbag Islamist terrorists and their handlers is just that much clearer.

We have Bush. We have Blair. We have America, the Brits and the righteous destiny. We have ... belly girl.

176 posted on 03/26/2003 7:33:44 PM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: woofie
Ritter is right up there with the "human shields" for their disgust/entertainment value.
177 posted on 03/26/2003 7:37:01 PM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: MEG33
"he must have a brain disorder!"

Yeah, its in the wrong head.

178 posted on 03/26/2003 7:41:28 PM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: ArneFufkin
Bump. That's pretty inspirational Arne.
179 posted on 03/26/2003 7:42:46 PM PST by Kryptonite (Free Miguel)
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To: sweetliberty
"Ritter is right up there with the 'human shields' for their disgust/entertainment value."

That occurred to me too. He's acting like that former Marine who renounced his citizinship to get together a bunch of socialists/communists to travel to Baghdad and 'volunteer' as human shields...all on Saddam's dime, of course. I can never remember that guy's name.

180 posted on 03/26/2003 7:43:42 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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