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While it is completely true that the U.S. dollar under Bush has lost about 1/3rd of it's value, it is also true that oil is priced by the U.S. dollar. Indeed it was the threat that Saddam would move to pricing Iraqi Oil by the Euro, "Rand Simberg" wrote in message Geez, another nutcase that believes this nonsense. Obviously you would rather avoid your gaze. http://www.thefinancials.com/Samples/i001731v.PDF April 2003 Euro/USD = .85 Feb 2005 Euro/USD = 1.32 that in part prompted Bush to illegally invade that nation and murder 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians. "Rand Simberg" wrote in message That didn't happen. Don't state it as though it's factual. Hawking brands Iraq deaths a crime MICHAEL SETTLE November 03 2004 Stephen Hawking, Britain's best-known scientist, last night branded the 100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq a war crime. As he made his unsual foray into politics, Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, told MPs the countdown to the end of the Black Watch's 30-day redeployment had begun, meaning their task will end on or by December 2. Professor Hawking told an event in Trafalgar Square, organised to remember those killed in Iraq, that the conflict was based on two lies. "The first was we were in danger of weapons of mass destruction and the second was Iraq was somehow to blame for September 11. "It has been a tragedy for all the families that have lost members. As many as 100,000 people have died, half of them women and children. If that is not a war crime, what is?" - Hawking The government has urged caution about the 100,000 estimate, proffered by US scientists, because it was based not on an actual bodycount but on extrapolation. A previous estimate was 15,000 deaths. Hawking was among celebrities who read 5000 names of those who have died in Iraq. The event, organised by CND and Stop the War Coalition to coincide with the US presidential election, took place in parallel with similar readings in 28 cities in Europe, Australia, the US and Iraq. Hawking, author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time and who is wheelchair-bound with motor neurone disease, was joined by Ken Livingstone, the London mayor, and Harold Pinter, the playwright. At the Commons, Mr Hoon told the defence committee the Black Watch had achieved full operational capability yesterday and he was confident they would be back in their base within 30 days. Asked if the Scottish soldiers would act as "ratcatchers" to intercept insurgents as they fled Falluja, the secretary of state replied: "Essentially, their job is to maintain stability in a particularly defined area; precisely what they have been doing in the south." However, he conceded: "If there is a significant operation against Falluja, there will be a significant change in the level of activity in the area the Black Watch are currently occupying." MPs expressed disbelief when Mr Hoon revealed he had met Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, a week before the American request for the Black Watch to redeploy but had not mentioned it. James Cran, the Tory MP for Beverley in Yorkshire, said he was astonished there had been no high-level political contact. Mike Hancock, Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth South, asked the minister: "Your political counterpart meets you a week before and he does not mention it to you. We are expected to believe that? It simply does not stack up." Mr Hoon said there had been no formal political request, which he stressed underlined the government's repeated contention that it was all done through the military. Frank Roy, the Labour MP for Motherwell and Wishaw, pressed the secretary of state over families of Scottish troops who felt "confused, afraid and left in the dark" over the redeployment. He also complained Scottish families had had to pay to send parcels to their loved ones serving in Iraq. Elsewhere, Clarence House announced the Prince of Wales would on Saturday meet the families of Black Watch soldiers at the regimental barracks at Warminster in Wiltshire. In Iraq, car bombs killed at least a dozen people in Baghdad and Mosul as pressure mounted on Iyad Allawi, the interim prime minister, to avoid ordering a full-scale US attack on Falluja. Mohammed Bashar al Faidhi, a spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, said his group would organise civil disobedience and boycott the January elections. |
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:04:46 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Vendicar
Decarian" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: While it is completely true that the U.S. dollar under Bush has lost about 1/3rd of it's value, it is also true that oil is priced by the U.S. dollar. Indeed it was the threat that Saddam would move to pricing Iraqi Oil by the Euro, Geez, another nutcase that believes this nonsense. that in part prompted Bush to illegally invade that nation and murder 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians. That didn't happen. Don't state it as though it's factual. |
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:11:42 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Vendicar
Decarian" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Indeed it was the threat that Saddam would move to pricing Iraqi Oil by the Euro, "Rand Simberg" wrote in message Geez, another nutcase that believes this nonsense. Obviously you would rather avoid your gaze. No, obviously I'd like to live in a real world, rather than a fantasy one. that in part prompted Bush to illegally invade that nation and murder 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians. "Rand Simberg" wrote in message That didn't happen. Don't state it as though it's factual. Hawking brands Iraq deaths a crime long trollish post snipped Yes, whenever I want commentary on the latest current events, I go to a clueless physicist. |
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Rand Simberg wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:54:23 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Vendicar Decarian" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: "Rand Simberg" wrote in message Yes, that's why he wasted so much time working to get resolutions passed, and sent Colin Powell to work for it, This would be the Colon Powell who went to the U.N. and spent 1.5 hours telling lie after lie about Iraq, and eventually having to resort to holding up fake viles of anthrax, and cartoons showing artists conceptions of what the he claimed Saddam had? No. The other one. |
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Rand Simberg wrote: I'm not a "Clinton hater." As you said befo For eight long years, whenever I objected to the co-Presidents using the Constitution for toilet paper, or using their office for the personal aggrandizement and power of themselves and their cronies, and moving their little Dixie Mafia from Little Rock to Washington, I was dubbed a "Clinton hater." We may disagree with the Mafia, and we may criticize the Mafia, but we don't *hate* the Mafia. Granted, the Mafia may murder, kidnap, steal, smuggle, and terrorize, but "hate" is a very strong word. It's a word that you shouldn't just toss around, unlike the word "Mafia". I'm just someone who's not a Clinton koolaid drinker We may disagree with Jim Jones, we may criticize Jim Jones, but we don't *hate* Jim Jones... -- /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) / \ Home page: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/ \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print * |
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Rand Simberg wrote: I don't, in fact, hate the Mafia, Dixie or otherwise. .... Hate seems to be an extreme emotion that leftists tend to feel, and project on others. I didn't hate Ted Bundy, either. We hate those who want to kill. - George W. Bush http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...020521-11.html I hate Microsoft. - Rand Simberg http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/000511.html I can see that you don't hate sanctimony. -- /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) / \ Home page: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/ \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print * |
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Rand Simberg wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:47:22 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away, (Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: I don't, in fact, hate the Mafia, Dixie or otherwise. ... Hate seems to be an extreme emotion that leftists tend to feel, and project on others. I didn't hate Ted Bundy, either. We hate those who want to kill. - George W. Bush http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...020521-11.html I'm George Bush? Who knew? Having problem with english comprehension again? Or do you think you are the only one to not be a leftist? Alain Fournier |
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:52:50 -0800, in a place far, far away, Alain
Fournier made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Hate seems to be an extreme emotion that leftists tend to feel, and project on others. I didn't hate Ted Bundy, either. We hate those who want to kill. - George W. Bush http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...020521-11.html I'm George Bush? Who knew? Having problem with english comprehension again? Or do you think you are the only one to not be a leftist? No, many people aren't leftists, who are also not George Bush. Also, I never stated that only leftists feel hate. Many on the "right" (whatever the heck that means) do to. As does, apparently, at least occasionally, George Bush. Apparently, you still need to work on that logic thing. |
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