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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

  by minimus in

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  good move or bad?

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  Rub - First it's not England it's the United Kingdom or UK if you prefer.

  The UK has been the USA's greatest ally, we have fought and died beside American soldiers all over the world - even when your President started a war in Iraq for tenuous reasons.

  Now your latest Commander in Chief decided on a whim to assassinate the most beloved man in Iran - even people who were out protesting against him a few weeks ago in fear of their lives are now reportedly out screaming 'death to America'. President Trump didn't even have the decency to give Prime Minister Johnson a heads-up. And you think the solution is for America to walk away and let 'England' deal with the aftermath.

  You broke it - you own it.
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  I've read an awful lot of authoritative books on the modern history of the Middle East Redvip.

  Saudi did not do 9/11.
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

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  We invaded Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia where the hijackers came from - Was

  Will this canard never die?

  Bin Laden and some of his cronies were Saudi but, despite his family's long relationship with the House of Saud, he was disefranched by the regime long before 9/11.
  

  Al qaeda was primarily motivated by their contempt for the Saudi state. Saudi did not facilitate 9/11. I can think of many reasons to criticise Saudi Arabia but 9/11 is not one of them.
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

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  Rub - Are you proposing that all western powers leave the Middle East to its own devices?

  How long would it be before Israel was attacked?

  Do like having fuel for your car and for the wagons that bring food to your local store?
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  Adam could have put Jehovah In Paradox!

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  i'm going to be the first and throw this out there for others but, from careful study of the scriptures i've found a loophole that even adam who was perfect at the time missed!

  i'm sure everyone has heard the conundrum about ,"can god create a rock he can't lift?

  " and if he can't create one he can't lift, then god cannot do everything" well that doesn't really matter since we know jehovah says himself he cannot lie right?

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  There is no Satan in Genesis. In fact there is no Satan pre-exile. The Jews adopted dualism from the Zoroastrian religion during their time in Babylon.

  In Genesis it is just a talking serpent with legs.

  (Could you turn off the bold font and use more paragraphs please?)
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  Which songs give you goosebumps?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?

  ', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.

  y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.

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  Here you go. Give it 20 seconds - after dark - no noise - loud - with some Scotch.

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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

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  I really don't buy the line that feeding the 'military industry' is a motive for war. I think the motives are far more idiosyncratic and ad hoc.
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  Which songs give you goosebumps?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?

  ', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.

  y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.

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  Miles Davis - 'Flamenco Sketches' (alternative version) on Kind of Blue.

  Play it in the dark. The horn 10 seconds in will blow your mind. I listened to it late one night in a hospital bed with ear buds. Changed my world.
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

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  It was morally justified - Soleimani was a monster and an implacable enemy - but time will tell if it was wise.

  The backlash will be fierce and I don't trust President Trump to handle the escalation calmly.

  Contrary to the propaganda many Iranians will be euphoric that he is dead.
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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

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  Thanks for taking the time to type that out Earnest.

  It seems to show that Greta's obsession was not initiated by her parents. I feel a bit sorry for them. She is not a well child. She may be enjoying the international acclaim right now but I would fear for her future more than I fear for the planet.

  Environmentalism is a secular religion. Greta is being beatified as the patron saint of the green movement. What is needed is a rational conversation about what will actually make a difference and what is realistic not the endless virtue signalling, hysteria and tokenism.