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From Australia: It doesn't offend me in the least, as it was a unilateral decision. Australia had no input into the US decision to go to war. The government policy in this country was "The US will tell us what to do, and then we will do it". If for domestic political reasons the US decides to...

Yes, it must be my fault. Watching the "Beltway Boys" last wekend they showed some poll figures showing Kerry about 150 electoral college votes in front. Then one talking head turns to the other and says "Are you worried?" To a leftie like myself this seems to be an indication of personal...

Individual Mutualism (as described in a couple of Stainless Steel Rat stories by Harry Harrison) but not such much as not believeing, as doing nothing to make it happen

Didn't Oliver North and Poindexter supply the explosives for this operation?

Snip tale of woe Have you thought of running for President?

I hate him for the following reasons He was elected with less than 50% of the vote and still claimed a mandate to govern. He lied to the country about reasons for invading Iraq He locks people up behind razor wire and denies them justice He exploited national tragedies for partisan...

Probably as fair as the next election, which was denounced by the US government as unfair and undemocratic, before it even took place. For some strange reason they didn't pursue these complaints after Ortega lost. It probably confused their tiny brains to see a) a communist 'dictator' calling an...

But the heading doesn't match the question. Faux News is easily my favourite news channel, but it is the one I trust the least. If O'Reilly or Hannity or those air-heads on the morning program claim something is true, then I can assume it isn't. Of course it could be just clever satire, only...

Not wishing to defend Rupert but .... Murdoch is an interventionist owner, but his concern isn't political, but financial. He supports the side that can make him the most money, which is usually, but not exclusively to the right of politics. It is one of the accepted rituals of Australian...

But you've just failed Logic 101 a second time. If you are going to dispense with the facts, and just rely on honesty thats fine. But what makes George "Iraq tried to by uranium from Niger" Bush, Donald "We know where they are" Rumsfeld or Tony "They can be used in 45 minutes" Blair more...

The Iraqi Government stated that they had been destroyed, and given that are not to be found in Iraq, they were telling the truth.

A personal friend of mine happened to be a UN weapons inspector in Iraq, and I would regard him as quite intelligent. So much so that that he appeared on a national current affairs program in Australia to talk about how the inspection teams had a lot of problems with both the information and...

By using his brain I guess. Believing the statement "There is no evidence that Iraq doesn't have WMD's" means the same as "There is evidence they do have WMD's" is an automatic failure in Logic 101. Of course it still makes you as smart as Ari Fleischer.

The funniest thing about Hannity is that he speaks of an America that no longer exists. I keep watching with morbid fascination, expecting his head to explode the moment he realises this.

Yeh 10Seven. It's not like he said "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." or "We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more." or "We have sources that tell us that Saddam...