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• • 11 Jul 06
  • 5:38 am

  My fear is that the election will in reality be close thereby enabling the Republicans once again to rig the result in their favor. There is clear evidence that 2000 and 04 were rigged. If the democrats lose 06 and then 08 no further evidence will be needed in my opinion, democracy, at least in this country, will have gone the way of the Dodo bird. Goodbye America, hello Project for the New American Century.

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• • 04 Apr 06
  • 5:14 am

  Scorp, The only country I can see invading and threatening other countries at the moment is ours. The question then is how long will China, India, Russia and Europe appease us? The conservative use of the word appeasement is often very inaccurate. You appease an aggressor, and Iraq posed no threat to us whatsoever, none, nothing, nil. Conservatives use the word appeasement in the context of Iraq because they want to constantly suggest that it was some kind of imminent threat. Those of us who could see that there was no threat and said so, loudly, were inaccurately accused of 'appeasement'. …

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• • 05 Apr 06
  • 4:22 am

  I hate to tell you Scorp, but there are no Iranian nukes, just as there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. These are all conservative fantasies, used to justified international meddling in the affairs of others. Iran has said it wants to develop a civilian nuclear program, I guess for when the oil runs out, which it will, eventually. Why should the west have a monopoly on civilian nuclear power, I mean really, why? Even if Iran secretly develops nuclear weapons they would almost definitely never be used, for the same reason the USSR never used it's nuclear weapons …

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• • 05 Apr 06
  • 3:15 pm

  Frog, Globalisation is a tricky one isn't it. On the one hand you have the conservatives who see it as the 'natural' spread of western capitalist values around the world. On the other you have everyone else who sees it as a creeping attempt to take the democratic power of economic self determination out of the hands of the world's people and put it into the hands of large corporations, mostly American and European, who are unaccountable to anyone. It's actually pretty nasty, but American conservatives are so convinced of their own supposed benevolence that they support the most shocking crimes …

  Posted to Barbarians at the Helm

• • 05 Apr 06
  • 10:41 pm

  Frog, Globalization is a tricky one isn't it? On the one hand you have the conservatives who see it as the 'natural' spread of western capitalist values around the world. On the other you have everyone else who sees it as a creeping attempt to take the democratic power of economic self-determination out of the hands of the world's people and put it into the hands of large corporations, mostly American and European, who are unaccountable to anyone. It's actually pretty nasty, but American conservatives are so convinced of their own supposed benevolence that they support the most shocking crimes on …

  Posted to Barbarians at the Helm