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offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2004-07-22 20:02 [#01283790]
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[SoapBox]

http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2004/pr040317.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/story/0,3604,1265520,0...


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-07-22 20:16 [#01283797]
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Man, those places must smell worse than John Wayne Gacy's
subterranean crawl space.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-22 20:18 [#01283798]
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or monoid's kitchen sink.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2004-07-22 20:45 [#01283805]
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either way, :'( x 100000


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2004-07-23 06:11 [#01283963]
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well, whta do you guys have to say now?


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-23 06:24 [#01283970]
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I don't know what you're trying to say, one article says
there are mass graves dating from the 80s (when dear
departed Ronnie was giving uncle Saddam a helping hand), but
gives no figures. And then the Guardian report says that
the figure of 300,000 bodies in mass graves isn't backed by
any evidence. Is that why you're crying, because the "news"
is conflicting and contradictory?


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-07-23 06:30 [#01283973]
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it is obvious that saddam has murdered loads of ppl, and
somewhere he has got chemical weapons - you just dont get
rid of it it like that, besides, he was using it constantly.
therefore, saddam is prick, and he should be tortured.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-23 06:36 [#01283976]
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I dreamt last night, and this is a true thing, that he'd
escaped and was back in power.


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-07-23 06:38 [#01283979]
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this from a dream will become reality, if US goverment will
do what is doing right now. or, what could be worse, we
will have another saddam, the 3 world of islam is full of
wacko's which are ready to start nuclear holocaust.


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-23 06:41 [#01283983]
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Couldn't a large portion of those bodies in the mass graves
be a result of the Iran/Iraq war? It would seem logical to
me...


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-23 06:43 [#01283987]
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It might just be an untidy cemetary, I don't know what the
pay was like working for the council under Saddam.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 06:48 [#01283995]
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saddam was a bad guy. i don't even hear the staunch
anti-war folk disputing that.

i'm not 100% sure what kind of reaction you were trying to
get here elusive.


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-23 07:00 [#01284005]
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yej... we all agee Saddam wasn't exactly uncle frigggin ben
but its been priven by official inquireis that

a) zero al queda link with iraq
b) zero WMD found
ie zero justification for war based on arguments given for
it

AND

N.Korea, US backed sth american governments AND african
countries have killed 10,000's of citizens and we don't see
them being liberated from tyranny.



 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-23 07:01 [#01284006]
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"saddam was a bad guy. i don't even hear the staunch
anti-war folk disputing that. "
I don't think that fact
every really sinks into the brains of the pro-war/bush
(which seems to be the same thing) boys and girls.


 

offline neetta from Finland on 2004-07-23 07:08 [#01284017]
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the whole world will probably face some sort of a jihad
soon. makes me happy to be a young person with a future :((

i'd like to know what is the conspiracy behind not having
the metric system is the us. inch i can understand but wtf
is lbs. ?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 07:09 [#01284018]
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pounds, no?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 07:11 [#01284023]
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oh look.. it's an abbreviation of libra, which means
"A unit of weight in ancient Rome equivalent to about 12
ounces."


an ounce is 28.35, so that's 340 grams. um..


 

offline neetta from Finland on 2004-07-23 07:13 [#01284028]
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hehe as you know i have been looking at laptops and it's so
confusing with some sites that use the weird old system :)


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 07:15 [#01284030]
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if america switched over to the metric system, every machine
in every factory, every ruler in every school, every program
on every computer in every university lab in america would
need to be either replaced or recalibrated... not to mention
all the re-learning all the people would have to do.

...ok, maybe that's slightly exagerated, but it'd be
expensive and time consuming.

that said, i think it needs to be done.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 07:16 [#01284035]
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one pound = 16 ounces


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 07:17 [#01284038]
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one pound = 453.59237 grams


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-07-23 07:18 [#01284039]
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i said saddam should be tortured once, that solves the
problem i guess.


 

offline neetta from Finland on 2004-07-23 07:19 [#01284041]
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we just switched currency here, it was kind of a similar
operation, but maybe in a smaller scale. but it's really
odd, i'd think that a system like that'd be harder to
remember.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 07:22 [#01284043]
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if you grew up with it.. it's a bit like how we keep track
of time- there's 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes make an
hour, 24 hours make a day, 7 days make a week, 4 weeks a
month, 12 months a year.

sounds pretty illogical if you haven't grown up with it,
especially as almost everything else uses a 10-number
system.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 07:23 [#01284045]
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our system is really lame. it's based on units of 12
instead of units of 10.


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-07-23 07:24 [#01284047]
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i heard britain didnt wanted to swith to 10 unit system coz
they said its too complicated.


 

offline neetta from Finland on 2004-07-23 07:26 [#01284050]
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that probably means that the switching is complicate, not
the 10 unit system?


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-23 07:30 [#01284052]
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iraq seems to count in the 1000's

:p


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-07-23 07:32 [#01284055]
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no, they said that not switching, but new system would be
too heavy to take by ppl.funny


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 07:33 [#01284057]
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yeah, i think we like our system because the word POUND is
much more aggressive sounding than gram.

i mean, we are trying to pound the world into
submission no? ;-)


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2004-07-23 07:36 [#01284061]
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k


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 07:37 [#01284062]
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maybe because in reality you want to be England's
bitches..!! :P


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-23 07:38 [#01284065]
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Americans call a hash a pound. CRAZY!!!!!!! But geeks call
it octothorpe, MADNESS!!!!!


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 07:40 [#01284069]
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vengeance approved, man, vengeance approved..

*highfives*


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-23 07:42 [#01284072]
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Yeaaaaaaaaaaah! *woops enthusiastically*


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 07:48 [#01284081]
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we need to standardize language, money, and measurement...
it'd be so much easier to travel.

...oops, i guess that's sounding a little too novos ordo
seclorum.

i guess we have teh internet... i can sit on my fastfood
stuffed butt in appalachia and hang out with my peeps all
over the planet...

..as long as everyone else keeps learning english. :o / :)


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 07:50 [#01284085]
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when we're standardizing language anyway, we can strike out
all the bad words, so people can't have bad thoughts anymore
because they simply don't have the vocabulary!!

doubleplusgood!!


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 07:52 [#01284086]
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elusive can be Big Bother.


Attached picture

 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 08:13 [#01284124]
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*shutters*


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offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 08:14 [#01284132]
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lol @ the eye looking right at europe.

jesus h. crimeiny christmas, whoever made that logo should
we locked up in an assylum miles underground.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 08:15 [#01284135]
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be = we

freudian slip: yes [ ] no [ ]



 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 08:16 [#01284139]
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shutters?


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 08:17 [#01284144]
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'shutter' should've been 'shudder'.

man i'm really off today.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-23 08:36 [#01284175]
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let's strike "shudders" from the list,

voila, you were right all along!


 

offline godataloss from Cleveland (United States) on 2004-07-23 12:05 [#01284364]
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I wonder if we used bulldozers to dig another grave site to
burry the 10,000 Iraqi civilians we killed in the bombings?

If you want to feel some compassion for the Iraqi's think
about the fact that they are still living under a hostile
regime, there are no jobs, no civilian infrastructure and
if they do decide to try to latch on to the US-Backed-Govt
teat, they have a very good chance of being blown up while
waiting in line for their spiffy new uniforms.


 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2004-07-23 12:17 [#01284373]
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It is a sad state of affairs indeed.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 12:23 [#01284376]
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drawing a 1 to 1 comparison between the people that saddam
had brutalized and killed durring his 30 year rule, and the
people who were unintentional casualties of the recent war
is IMO a false analogy, if not complete and utter bullshit.

it's horrible that people died who had nothing to do with
saddam's policies... people like that probably formed 75% of
the iraqi army. that's trully shitty. but (also IMO)
taking no action against saddam was costing VASTLY more
lives ALL of which were innocent people, who were being
starved out by saddam because of sactions that were being
enforced by the entire world through the UN. i don't
think it's as simple as no war = no loss of innocent life.
and it's tons easier to blame the people who do take action
instead of realizing that by turning a blind eye to the
situation a lot more people are dying a lot more slower
misserable deaths.

check out darour. maybe if we ignore that nobody will get
hurt either.

 

ok, and with that i'm done talking politics on this board.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-23 12:24 [#01284378]
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darour = darfour


 

offline godataloss from Cleveland (United States) on 2004-07-23 12:39 [#01284387]
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Ok so now they are bombed out and starving? Big
improvement! And don't forget we didn't go there to
liberate those terrorists, uh I mean people- we did it
because they had Weapons of Mass Destruction! The drivel
you are blindly reciting is Bush's lame-assed attempt to
justify the war when they couldn't even come up with a
half-empty can of raid in the whole frigging country.

And yeh, what about the Congo and Rwanda? We'll be there as
soon as they strike oil.

I'm sure the european members of XL are plenty tired of this
argument, but I don't think you all realize how close this
asshole is to getting re-elected. It's not only economicly,
environmently and pollitcally horrible- IT'S FUCKING
EMBARRASSING!!!



 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2004-07-23 12:41 [#01284388]
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it's sad.

if there were no oil for us there, the killings would still
be happening i'm sure.



 


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