Re: Kennedy In The Cuban Missile Crisis

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> On Jul 10, 6:13 am, Jack Linthi*** <jacklinthi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jul 9, 9:10 pm, "La N" <nilita2004NOS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > "Jack Linthi***" <jacklinthi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Jul 9, 9:53 am, "La N" <nilita2004NOS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> "Jack Linthi***" <jacklinthi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> > On Jul 8, 9:39 pm, "La N" <nilita2004NOS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> >> "Peter Skelton" <skelt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> >> > On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:15:27 GMT, "La N"
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> > > >> >> >>"John Briggs" <john.brig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> >> >>> Peter Skelton wrote:
> > > >> >> >>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:46:36 +0100, "John Briggs"
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> > > >> >> >>>>> William Black wrote:
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> > > >> >> >>>>>>>> He's said he isn't going to run away in Iraq or
> > > >> >> >>>>>>>> Afghanistan.
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> > > >> >> >>>>>>>> That'll do for me...
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> > > >> >> >>>>>>> As in ... "you broke it, you fix it?"
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> > > >> >> >>>>>> As in 'I don't want to live in a world where the USA
has
> > > >> >> >>>>>> ceased
> > > >> >> >>>>>> to
> > > >> >> >>>>>> be a power'.
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> > > >> >> >>>>> Really?  Wouldn't it be a safer one?
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> > > >> >> >>>> Power vaccuums are a really bad thing. Look at the mess 
> > > >> >> >>>> that
> > > >> >> >>>> came
> > > >> >> >>>> out of the collapse of the evil empire. It had to happen,
> > > >> >> >>>> don't
> > > >> >> >>>> get me wrong there but several nasty wars, including the
> > > >> >> >>>> current
> > > >> >> >>>> messes in Iraq and Afghanistan, resulted.
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> > > >> >> >>> Er, no - that really isn't what happened.
> > > >> >> >>> --
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> > > >> >> >>Yes, I would like my countryman, Mr. Skelton, to clarify
SVP.
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> > > >> >> > OFCS it's bloody simple. While the evil empire existed,
nobody
> > > >> >> > would risk starting a war like Iraq without UN agreement (or
> > > >> >> > agreement of the evil empire). Exit the Iraq mess.
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> > > >> >> > Given that the resources in Iraq were available for 
> > > >> >> > Afghanistan,
> > > >> >> > exit the Afghan mess.
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> > > >> >> > Do you really need me to explain how the mess in the Balkans

> > > >> >> > or
> > > >> >> > the various nasty little wars and the middle-sized one going

> > > >> >> > on
> > > >> >> > in the shards of the old Soviet Union are related to the
> > > >> >> > break-up?
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> > > >> >> And ... so .... when / if the US pulls out of Iraq (under 
> > > >> >> Obama's
> > > >> >> leader****p), then what ....?
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> > > >> >> - nilita
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> > > >> > If we get lucky Iran tries to take our place.
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> > > >> You're an Obama sup****ter, Jack. Doesn't his foreign policy scare
> > > >> you?
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> > > >> - nilita
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> > > > In what way?
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> > > You know what they're saying ... that he's going to pull the US out
of
> > > Iraq,
> > > create a huge power vacuum, thus making the Middle East a dangerous
> > > place
> > > for the world!
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> > > - nilita
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> > I would like to see Iran in our position now. Eight million Sunnis,
> > five million Kurds, at least two ****a factions and the additional
> > problem of being Persian not Arab. Pakistan is what makes the Middle
> > East a dangerous place, even though it is not technically part of the
> > Middle East. Meantime those dastardly Israelis are going around making
> > peace pacts with obvious bad people and making the whole U.S.
> > operation look like your Uncle Walter trying to rearrange Thanksgiving
> > dinner so he won't have to sit at the same table with your second
> > cousin.
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> Point to be taken
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/world/asia/10terror.html?_r=1&hp&or...
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> WA****NGTON — American military and intelligence officials say there
> has been an increase in recent months in the number of foreign
> fighters who have traveled to Pakistan’s tribal areas to join with
> militants there.
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> The flow may reflect a change that is making Pakistan, not Iraq, the
> preferred destination for some Sunni extremists from the Middle East,
> North Africa and Central Asia who are seeking to take up arms against
> the West, these officials say.
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> The American officials say the influx, which could be in the dozens
> but could also be higher, shows a further strengthening of the
> position of the forces of Al Qaeda in the tribal areas, increasingly
> seen as an im****tant base of sup****t for the Taliban, whose forces in
> Afghanistan have become more aggressive in their campaign against
> American-led troops.
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> According to the American officials, many of the fighters making their
> way to the tribal areas are Uzbeks, North Africans and Arabs from
> Persian Gulf states. American intelligence officials say that some
> jihadist Web sites have been encouraging foreign militants to go to
> Pakistan and Afghanistan, which is considered a “winning fight,”
> compared with the insurgency in Iraq, which has suffered sharp
> setbacks recently.
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> The number of foreign fighters entering Iraq has dropped to fewer than
> 40 a month from as many as 110 a month a year ago, a military
> spokesman in Baghdad said Wednesday. “The sanctuary situation in
> Pakistan’s tribal areas and North-West Frontier Province is more,
> rather than less, troublesome than before,” Gen. David D. McKiernan,
> the new NATO commander in Afghanistan, said in a telephone interview.
> “The ****ous border has allowed insurgent militant groups a greater
> freedom of movement across that border, as well as a greater freedom
> to resupply, to allow leader****p to sustain stronger sanctuaries, and
> to provide fighters across that border.”  <more>
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> Hmm ... then "we" better pull out of Iraq and move on in to Pakistan.
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> Whatever happens in the future, Bush sup****ters will retroactively blame
> Obama.
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> - nilita

If they can get that in during their confessions

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Ahhhhh .... you're implying that by then waterboarding will truly be en 
vogue!

- nilita