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Tommymac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 09:18 AM
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29. Way to provoke thought.
Your point is well made. Thank you for adding this dose of needed reality to today's discussions. Recommended and kicked.
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  -Yet when 40+ Iraqis are killed, when 100s+ Iraqis are wounded, no DUer LynnTheDem  Jul-07-05 08:46 AM   #0 
  - Good point......  WCGreen   Jul-07-05 08:47 AM   #1 
  - I don't recognize any moratorium, bu$h has made terrorism political  liberal N proud   Jul-07-05 08:48 AM   #2 
  - And we know who is responsible for those attacks  justinsb   Jul-07-05 08:48 AM   #3 
  - or on 9/11 for that matter  JanMichael   Jul-07-05 08:48 AM   #4 
  - No that's a great point...  true_notes   Jul-07-05 08:49 AM   #5 
  - Don't forget the omnipresent occupation  dpibel   Jul-07-05 11:20 AM   #59 
  - I sent a msg to Springer about that. Not to minimize what happened,  kikiek   Jul-07-05 08:50 AM   #6 
  - Correct n/t  malaise   Jul-07-05 08:51 AM   #7 
  - Thank you Lynn  tyedyeto   Jul-07-05 08:51 AM   #8 
  - Thank you, Lynn  acmejack   Jul-07-05 08:51 AM   #9 
  - Exactly. It's obscene.  Bouncy Ball   Jul-07-05 08:54 AM   #10 
  - It certainly is.  Il_Coniglietto   Jul-07-05 09:06 AM   #21 
  - That's certainly the message we get, isn't it?  Bouncy Ball   Jul-07-05 09:10 AM   #26 
     - My sister-in-law said the same to me back in summer '03; "We should  LynnTheDem   Jul-07-05 09:20 AM   #30 
     - Someone I worked with said the same thing  there-s a   Jul-07-05 09:42 AM   #41 
  - Which is it?  DS1   Jul-07-05 09:32 AM   #37 
     - By both groups, I meant Londoners and Iraqis.  Bouncy Ball   Jul-07-05 09:37 AM   #38 
  - Amen.  wicket   Jul-07-05 08:54 AM   #11 
  - fill me in ... who/where is scalling for a moratorium? (musta missed it)  ret5hd   Jul-07-05 08:55 AM   #12 
  - here  there-s a   Jul-07-05 09:44 AM   #42 
     - Thanks. n/t  zidzi   Jul-07-05 09:55 AM   #47 
  - Very astute.  Goldmund   Jul-07-05 08:56 AM   #13 
  - Didn't you stop what you were doing on 9/11? I did. So did everyone  applegrove   Jul-07-05 08:57 AM   #14 
  - 1. No. 2. Do you stop every week when 40+ Iraqis are killed in a day?  LynnTheDem   Jul-07-05 09:07 AM   #22 
     - Oh yes I did. I stopped and thought when Iraq was invaded. And  applegrove   Jul-07-05 09:24 AM   #35 
        - I hope you stop everything you're doing every week  LynnTheDem   Jul-07-05 09:38 AM   #39 
  - Well said  johnnie   Jul-07-05 08:58 AM   #15 
  - And they did no harm to us whatsoever.  Just Me   Jul-07-05 08:59 AM   #16 
  - How many died in Afghanistan the other day when we accidently bombed  kikiek   Jul-07-05 09:05 AM   #19 
     - "Accidently"? I don't think it was an accident at all.  Media_Lies_Daily   Jul-08-05 09:42 AM   #69 
  - Bravo, Lynn. n/t  mondo joe   Jul-07-05 08:59 AM   #17 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-07-05 09:02 AM   #18 
  - ain't that the truth. n/t  rman   Jul-07-05 09:05 AM   #20 
  - I understand your point but I also want to point out that  Coventina   Jul-07-05 09:08 AM   #23 
  - I feel the same ... the world should mourn for them equally,  cmt928   Jul-07-05 09:08 AM   #24 
  - kick. n/t  rooboy   Jul-07-05 09:09 AM   #25 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-07-05 09:15 AM   #27 
  - You're absolutely right  ChavezSpeakstheTruth   Jul-07-05 09:16 AM   #28 
  - Way to provoke thought.  Tommymac   Jul-07-05 09:18 AM   #29 
  - The problem is not that they do not call a moratorium  Mass   Jul-07-05 09:22 AM   #31 
  - Absolutely right, Lynn. To hell with PC and racism.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Jul-07-05 09:24 AM   #32 
  - To Be Perfectly Clear, Ms. Dem  The Magistrate   Jul-07-05 09:24 AM   #33 
  - And if we want to be 100% callous about this  Vladimir   Jul-07-05 06:26 PM   #62 
  - exceptionalism  bigtree   Jul-07-05 09:24 AM   #34 
  - Iraqis aren't whiteish  Pawel K   Jul-07-05 09:30 AM   #36 
  - Perhaps you've never met an Iraqi  Karenina   Jul-07-05 06:48 PM   #63 
     - Well, exactly  Pawel K   Jul-08-05 09:34 AM   #67 
        - I'm sorry Pawel K  Karenina   Jul-08-05 12:40 PM   #70 
           - No problem  Pawel K   Jul-08-05 12:59 PM   #71 
  - That's exactly what I was thinking when I watched the news  sunnystarr   Jul-07-05 09:39 AM   #40 
  - Well, a lot of DUers are from London  Zuni   Jul-07-05 09:44 AM   #43 
  - Yeah, but these were white people who got killed  Jacobin   Jul-07-05 09:46 AM   #44 
  - Because to most people it still is not a real war...  Tommymac   Jul-07-05 10:03 AM   #52 
  - Were I to hear of an attack in Prague, I would be far more upset  igil   Jul-07-05 10:35 AM   #54 
     - So, no recognition that if you shoot at someone, they may shoot back?  Jacobin   Jul-07-05 11:06 AM   #56 
  - THANK YOU!  manic expression   Jul-07-05 09:46 AM   #45 
  - I hadn't come across that  zidzi   Jul-07-05 09:49 AM   #46 
  - Isn't it, though?  buddyhollysghost   Jul-07-05 09:56 AM   #48 
  - What bothers me even more  CWebster   Jul-07-05 09:57 AM   #49 
  - Outside of direct U.S. Military Operations, why should I care  DS1   Jul-07-05 10:00 AM   #50 
  - Once it gets to YOUR neighborhood  Karenina   Jul-07-05 07:45 PM   #64 
  - i'll just "me too" instead of getting another post deleted  Monkie   Jul-07-05 10:00 AM   #51 
  - Thankyou Lynn, your'e right!  Talismom   Jul-07-05 10:28 AM   #53 
  - Thats the first thing I thought of  KelleyKramer   Jul-07-05 10:54 AM   #55 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-07-05 11:15 AM   #57 
  - Indeed, and no DU'er blamed the victims either or felt they deserved it(nt  The Straight Story   Jul-07-05 11:15 AM   #58 
  - Not only that - If someone were posting from Iraq  bloom   Jul-07-05 11:56 AM   #60 
  - Thanks for the links. nt  Tommymac   Jul-07-05 06:06 PM   #61 
  - Who called for this moratorium?  Hardhead   Jul-07-05 07:54 PM   #65 
  - A very sad commentary indeed! n/t  Tinoire   Jul-07-05 07:57 PM   #66 
  - Precisely. It needs to be said, nt  blondeatlast   Jul-08-05 09:35 AM   #68 
 

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