Posts by Simon Grigg
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Some people would say things have gotten worse as a result of the occupation.
Indeed, and there goes James' most recent theory "it had nothing to do with US Foreign Policy" out the window
MI5 and MI6 were yesterday investigating the role of al-Qaida cells in Iraq as they began to build up a picture of the foreign contacts of those involved in the plot to bomb London and Glasgow.
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Who is worse, the US that aided Saddam in a minor way and got rid of him or those countries that really did enable his regime and didn't want to see him go?
If supplying of Anthrax, botulism, the supply of Hughes helicopters that were used to deliver such, and a free flow of intelligence is helping in a minor way, then so be it. And if the degree of this support was overstated then so was the threat from Saddam that the US & the UK contained (although they happily turned a blind eye when he massacred thousands in 1991, and Kurds earlier).
There is of course the thought that France Russia and China (all of whom had long since, despite US claims, stopped supplying Iraq) didn't want any part of the clusterfuck post 2003 that intelligence, academics and diplomats warned was the very likely outcome of the invasion. I would imagine that the families of hundreds of thousand of dead Iraqis might agree with them.
This affidavit is worth reading
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Alastair,
He was not convicted of the crime of treason, and under American and our law there is a presumption of innocence, and if we are going to respect the law we have to respect that. That's why I said "in law". That does not mean I think he's innocent or otherwise, but I will not presume to convict a person, who has not even been charged with a crime that a judge and jury have not heard. That, I think is drawing a very long bow.It doesn't mean I don't think he's a nasty scumball who probably deserves, as does his boss, to be put away for a long time. And even more so after reading the WaPo Cheney four parter last night.
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If Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, then why are many muslim terrorists reported to cry "Alluh Akbar" ar "Allah" as they carry out their act of terrorism?
I'm not sure who I dislike most James, the guy blowing up a bus, or those, like yourself, sitting in a nation evoking god whilst your bombs and proxies do your work. I guess I think your're both just as culpable...the end result is little different.
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Honestly Simon, with a load of bollocks, how is it possible for someone to believe such utter crap?
James, if only the rest of us were able to live in the simplistic bubble you inhabit then the world would be a happier place. Sadly we don't. I'm not even going to try to list the human rights abuses of the last few years, they've been documented repeatedly, thousands of times, but include handing unconvicted persons over to third parties for torture, and countless people disappearing into a vast system the likes of which hasn't been seen since the days of Stalin.
The very simple point that eludes you is that Abu Ghraid was indicative. I know you don't get any of it, and probably never will, but the human rights of those people count too. And the thousands dead in Iraq in a bloated ugly unnecessary war.
BTW the shredder was likey an invention...there is absolutely no evidence to support the story....and you managed to get so many details in there too...
What disturbs me about the right,and indeed you is the way you polish up your torture badge and say it's shinier than others....
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Slowly the moral relativist wool is falling from people's eyes and the world is making progress toward a better understanding of the real causes and reality of Islamic terrorism. Better late than never.
the wool may be being pulled over someones eyes, James, but whose is another question.
With such glaring discrepancies in his own accounts of his life and experiences, it is clear that there is nothing substantial in any of Butt's testimonies that can be relied upon.
It was, after all, in the Daily Mail.
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I worked part-time at McD's for a few years as a teen.
Did KFC as a teen, in Panmure, saving money for my first car. Colonel Sanders (yes the real one) came to visit us. All the brown people were sent home..our staff was was 90% Maori and Polynesian...but the Colonel was a good old fashioned southern racist and wouldn't be in the same room.
In the eighties the most successful KFC store in the world was in Tokoroa.
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I have no idea of what brand of automatic weapon the uniformed infants stalking around Changi airport in Singapore were holding, but they certainly freaked me out.
welcome to Asia...we have machine gun armed polisi at malls, hotels, certain high profile restaurants, embassies etc. Thailand and Malaysia are the same.
Still I'd rather these guys symbolically toted than the other guys....... The age of those guys in Changi does worry me though. They tend to be trained adults elsewhere. I had a smiling polisi point a gun at me outside my gym a couple of weeks back. The Timor Leste Truth Commission was meeting in the same hotel and I tried to use the wrong door.
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I'd also question whether this is cronyism of simply a case of Libby knows far too much to let him go to jail
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Kyle,
As I see it the constitution did not give the president the power to pardon or reprieve in order to further the cause of cronyism. It was put in the constitution for a purpose. By using the power as he has it shows a blatant disregard for both the constitution and the law it empowers and directs.This is good....