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  Congratulations, Spain - first government to fall because of Iraq, Bush!

  by TheOldHippie in

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  congratulations to the spanish people, who voted the socialists to power as a protest against the conservative government's supporting bush's war on iraq, and for claiming the madrid bombs were acts of the eta nationalists and not an al-qaida attack because of the war on iraq.. so one government has fallen, and there are many more to come, bush.. who says these days ain't fun?

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  Phantom Stranger

  I apologized. Yell all you want.
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  Iraqi expat group admits feeding bad intel to US, press

  by Phantom Stranger in

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  report: newspapers were deceived by iraqi defectors

  from http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=90&u=/ep/20040316/en_bpiep/reportnewspapersweredeceivedbyiraqidefectors&printer=1

  new york bush administration officials were not the only people duped by tips from iraqi defectors in the run-up to the 2003 war.

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  Phantom Stranger

  A prime rule of the con is "you can't con someone who isn't looking to take advantage of someone else".
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  Victory for Terrorism

  by Yerusalyim in

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  the terrorists won a great victory in spain.

  mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.

  now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.

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  Phantom Stranger

  Whoops... my bad.

  Read my posts on this thread.
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  Congratulations, Spain - first government to fall because of Iraq, Bush!

  by TheOldHippie in

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  congratulations to the spanish people, who voted the socialists to power as a protest against the conservative government's supporting bush's war on iraq, and for claiming the madrid bombs were acts of the eta nationalists and not an al-qaida attack because of the war on iraq.. so one government has fallen, and there are many more to come, bush.. who says these days ain't fun?

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  Phantom Stranger

  OK, I let my anger at being accused of being against fighting terror get the better of me. My honest apologies for typing something I should only have muttered under my breath.

  Are you accusing someone who disagrees with the current actions of the US government re: Iraq as being on the side of the terrorists?

  Guys, seriously, I have been posting to both these threads all day, and working pretty hard to avoid being knee-jerk - you can disagree with the positions, but why tell me that I won't make an argument? I've got multiple posts setting up an argument - the only thing you've argued with is a statement I made explaining my personal opinion about a presidential candidate, which was obviously off-topic!
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  Iraqi expat group admits feeding bad intel to US, press

  by Phantom Stranger in

  1. social
  2. current

  report: newspapers were deceived by iraqi defectors

  from http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=90&u=/ep/20040316/en_bpiep/reportnewspapersweredeceivedbyiraqidefectors&printer=1

  new york bush administration officials were not the only people duped by tips from iraqi defectors in the run-up to the 2003 war.

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  Phantom Stranger

  Report: Newspapers Were Deceived by Iraqi Defectors

  From http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=90&u=/ep/20040316/en_bpiep/reportnewspapersweredeceivedbyiraqidefectors&printer=1

  NEW YORK Bush administration officials were not the only people duped by tips from Iraqi defectors in the run-up to the 2003 war. Newspaper reporters also received, and printed, information from them, much of which has turned out to be false, according to a lengthy report this morning by Jonathan S. Landay and Tish Wells of Knight Ridder news service.

  Knight Ridder's Washington bureau, which has broken numerous stories related to the Iraq war in recent months, has obtained a June 26, 2002, letter from the Iraqi National Congress (INC) to a U.S. Senate committee that listed 108 articles based on often fabricated information provided by the INC's "Information Collection Program," which was funded by the U.S. These articles appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Sun-Times, The Times of London and two Knight Ridder papers, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star and The Philadelphia Daily News, among others.
  

  "Feeding the information to the news media," Landay and Wells write, "as well as to selected administration officials and members of Congress, helped foster an impression that there were multiple sources of intelligence on Iraq's illicit weapons programs and links to Bin Laden. In fact, many of the allegations came from the same half-dozen defectors, weren't confirmed by other intelligence and were hotly disputed by intelligence professionals at the CIA, the Defense Department and the State Department."

  In at least one case, the reporters reveal, the INC made a defector available to a reporter even before the information had been vetted by U.S. officials. That defector claimed in a Dec. 20, 2001, article by Judith Miller in The New York Times that there were biological, nuclear and chemical warfare facilities located underground in Iraq. Nothing of the sort has since been found.

  "U.S. intelligence officials have determined that virtually all of the defectors' information was marginal or useless, and that some of the defectors were fabricators or embellished the threat from Saddam," Landay and Wells write. "Many of the articles relied on interviews with the same defectors, who appeared to change facts with each telling."

  The INC remains on the Pentagon payroll.

  A copy of the INC letter can be found at krwashington.com.
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  Victory for Terrorism

  by Yerusalyim in

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  the terrorists won a great victory in spain.

  mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.

  now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.

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  Phantom Stranger

  Read my posts.
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  Congratulations, Spain - first government to fall because of Iraq, Bush!

  by TheOldHippie in

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  congratulations to the spanish people, who voted the socialists to power as a protest against the conservative government's supporting bush's war on iraq, and for claiming the madrid bombs were acts of the eta nationalists and not an al-qaida attack because of the war on iraq.. so one government has fallen, and there are many more to come, bush.. who says these days ain't fun?

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  Phantom Stranger

  "One group sees the terrorists as the problem. The other group sees people who try to fight against it as the problem."

  Bullshit.
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  Victory for Terrorism

  by Yerusalyim in

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  the terrorists won a great victory in spain.

  mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.

  now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.

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  Phantom Stranger

  Jeez, at least attribute your Bush quotes...
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  Victory for Terrorism

  by Yerusalyim in

  1. social
  2. current

  the terrorists won a great victory in spain.

  mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.

  now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.

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  Phantom Stranger

  How can I mind my own business on a public forum? (BTW, the "grrr" was comical).

  I did not see the added data because you added it later... so now it is not identical, true...
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  Victory for Terrorism

  by Yerusalyim in

  1. social
  2. current

  the terrorists won a great victory in spain.

  mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.

  now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.

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  Phantom Stranger

  thichi:

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  Please don't add the same comment to more than one forum.

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