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  If you were President????

  by LB in

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  lots of opinions here on this site.

  but i haven't seen anyone post an alternative to this war.

  i know many of you support it and many others recoil at the thought of this war.

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  gitasatsangha

  Pulling all non naval and non-ambassadorial forces back to the western hemisphere is a good idea. The US does not need to be in the business of liberating the world. If they are not liberated by now, its their own damned fault. Devil take the hindmost, as they say. For over two hundred years the USA has been an almost continuously "ON" war machine and its time to end it. Eisenhower and Washington, both Generals and Presidents warned respectively of the dangers of the military-industrial complex, and of binding alliances.

  For those who think America is some sleeping giant, rudely awakened by an attack, the giant never went to sleep, except for once in awhile when he was to poor to fight. Here is a little list of American armed conflicts abroad, and dometic armed conflicts since America's beginning.

  The American Revolutionary War1775-1785
  Native American Conquests 1775-1890 (too many to list individually)
  Shay's Rebellion 1786-1787
  Whiskey Rebellion 1794
  The Quasi War with France 1798-1800
  Fries' Rebellion of Pennsylvania 1799
  The Barbary Coast Wars 1800-1815
  War of 1812 1812-1815
  Mexican War 1846-1848
  Bleeding Kansas 1855-1860
  Battle of Harper's Ferry 1859
  American Civil War 1861-1865
  Hawaiian Intervention 1893
  Spanish-American War 1898
  Samoan Intervention 1898-1902
  Phillipino Independance Wars 1899-1913
  Boxer Rebellion 1900
  Panamanian Intervention 1900
  Latin American Interventions 1890-1933 (too many to list)
  Vera Cruz Landing 1914
  Mexican Invasion 1916-1917
  World War I 1917-1918
  Anti-Bolshevik Operations 1919-1921
  World War II 1941-1945
  The Cold War 1945-1990
  Korean War 1950-1953
  Invasion of Guatemala 1954
  Vietnam War 1956-1975
  1st Lebanon Intervention 1958
  Dominican Occupation 1965
  Bombing and later Evacuation of Cambodia 1969-1975
  Bombing of Laos 1971-1973
  Alcatraz "AIM" Occupation Removal 1971
  Wounded Knee II "AIM" Occupation 1975
  Operation Eagle Claw, Iran 1980 1980
  Libya 1981,1986
  Lebanon 1982-1984
  Grenadan Invasion 1983
  Operation Earnest Will: IRAN 1987-1988
  Panamanian Invasion 1989
  Persian Gulf War 1991
  Undeclared Iraqi War 1991-1998
  Somalia 1992-1994
  Branch Davidian Rebellion 1993
  Bosnia 1994-1995
  Haiti 1994
  Sudan 1998
  Afghanistan 1998
  Operation Desert Fox: Iraq 1998
  Undeclared Iraqi War 1998-2003
  Kosovo War 1999
  AlQaeda attack on USS Cole 2000
  Enduring Freedom- 2001-Present
  Afghanistan 2001-Present
  Phillipine Islamists 2001-Present
  Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003-?

  We went to war with Iraq for no better reason then the regime in charge wanted to. Whatever its own reasons are, are moot. It was going to happen. And it will happen again.
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  Is America going to allow another Turkish atrocity? ... escalation?

  by Simon in

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  in their rush to bomb iraq, it seem that america has cut a deal with turkey to allow overflights, thus allowing b52's from the uk to launch cruise missiles etc ... .

  the turkish army is moving into northern iraq !!.

  10,000 troops.

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  gitasatsangha

  America always turns a blind eye to the sick old man of Europe. Most Americans have absolutely no idea how hellish the Turks treat Kurds, or even their own people. I still don't see how a country that has state-owned brothels staffed with female prisoners was admitted to the EU.
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  Goofy's Introduction, hello

  by goofy in

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  i feel like i know some of you since i have been lurking here for almost two years, yikes!.

  let me introduce myself.

  i go by goofy here, you know the disney character, always liked him.

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  gitasatsangha

  Hi Goofy! I'm another guy who lurked her a few years (well.. i was on H20 and "Not the Party Line" Way back when).

  It's good to see your post. Now tell me. Why was Goofy able to talk but not Pluto?
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  DINOSAURS!

  by gitasatsangha in

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  ok.. odd question.

  why are their dinosaurs in old nwt inner jackets?

  i don't have one any more, but i recall that there was one of the two legged variety walking hapilly along the continent of africa on the old bible.

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  gitasatsangha

  Ok.. odd question.

  why are their dinosaurs in old NWT inner jackets? I don't have one any more, but I recall that there was one of the two legged variety walking hapilly along the continent of Africa on the old bible. Also I think the Paradise Lost book (The one that used to scare the $hit out of us kids) had some dinosaurs on the inner cover maps as well. I never got around to asking any elder or other bigwig:

  what's the deal with the dinosaurs in JW books?
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  WT-CD 2001 Missing the Babylon the Great Book

  by blondie in

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  i was putting away the books that are on the cd and lo and behold the btg book is no longer on the disk.

  blondie

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  gitasatsangha

  Elsewhere,

  They could probably do that, easilly. It would depend if they could find an adequate way to twist the book up to meet their current teachings without making too many holes in the quilt of their theology. It would probably have to be a book they didnt refer to, too often in the recent past so as not to require to many new editions of books.

  I would think perhaps that Song of Solomon might be first to go. which is a shame as its one my favoite bits of Judeo-Christian literature. I dont think the JWs have ever been overly happy about having what is basically an erotic interracial love poem in the book. They have managed to wrangle out a very difficult analogy out of it though, and so far they are sticking to its canonicity. For that matter they could suddenly decide to put a book of the bible BACK IN to the cannon like Maccabees or Gospel of Thomas, but i think for the JWs right now, less is more. In any case they would have to come up with another version of All Scripture is Inspired of God book, which has been done before.
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  What's The Strangest Thing that ever happened to you OUT IN SERVICE??

  by NaruNaruChan in

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  i once had a guy answer the door naked, and i laughed my butt off... you?

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  Working the trailer park one day this drunk woman asked me and my partner if we and our "pastor" could come over to her place to put oil on her. We didn't understand but she actually managed to explain that she was alcoholic and at the local church she used to go to, the preacher would actually pray over her and put oil on her head to help her fight the disease. I guess it had something to do with a biblical thing regarding annointing with oil. We said we'd talk to our elders about it and got the hell off her porch.

  But at least I was asked by a woman to oil her up while out in service.
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  Movies You Watch Over & Over & Over

  by 3acrewood in

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  have you noticed there are certain movies you just never get tired of watching?

  what's does your list include?

  here are some of mine (in no particular order as to favorites):.

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  gitasatsangha

  Same here with Ferris Beueller, Dirty rotten Scoundels and Groundhog Day.

  a few others I rewatch a bit are

  Indochine

  Life of Brian "Worse! How could it be worse! Jehovah Jehovah!"

  Brazil

  Bladerunner
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  how old are you? the avg. age here?

  by rekless in

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  i'm 56

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  gitasatsangha

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  There have been no military incursions into Iraq

  by Elsewhere in

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  baghdad is being pummeled and coalition troops are rapidly moving across the country securing one site after another... then all of a sudden an iraqi official stands in front of cameras and announces that there have been no military incursions into iraq.. lmao... these guys just don't know when to stop..

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  gitasatsangha

  "There have been no military incursions into Iraq. Coincidentally I would like to take a moment and thank all these American deliverymen for their speedy delivery of bombs, cruise missiles, artillary shells, and bullets we have been receiving."
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  JW's Should Not Wear Too Much Makeup Or Baggy Clothing Per New KM

  by minimus in

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  if you weren't quite sure how jehovah god expects you to dress, the april 2003 km helps us to see his viewpoint.

  "well-arranged dress shows reverence for god" is the article that assists us to know god's feelings on these matters.

  i will give you some quotes from the article: "soon we will have the privilege of being jehovah's guests at the 2003 ' give god glory' disctrict convention.

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  gitasatsangha

  no no please wear it, Sandy, as long as it isn't baggy!