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Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1000
And allowing a sales manger plus two engineers to cook up a product noone thought of because everyone thought it trivial; "every customer would do that...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1001
Colonel Forbin I've gathered (not really having my finger "on the pulse" for the short period I was there) that Bell perceived the development teams' organization as a structural defect that needed to...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1002
Colonel Forbin k... empowerment: Temporally speaking it's a buzzword most commonly used by groups that contain the words "Rights...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1003
That is because you are using a completely wrong meausuring stick. AFAICT, the age-old conflict about what is the true Islam underrides a lot of this. Another thing...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1004
Yes. Those Islamic extremists do not have the corner market on stupidity. The US has a similar problem with Xians...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1005
Dunno about that. Saddam thought that the Arabs in SW Iran would support him. Wrong. The Iranians thought that the Shia would support...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1006
Hope not.. for reasons that may be appearent with time. Just been reading a message in...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1007
I wouldn't necessarily say "created", although thanks to these devices a lot of people get away with things that in the past would have removed...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1008
Charlie Gibbs Me not having anything to hide is not equivalent to me putting stuff on display. I realize...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1009
You misunderstand. I have a strong bias against ALL parties to the middle east conflict, as they have made such royal buttes of themselves...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1010
I agree with this completely. It seems like the IRA conflict all over. As soon as some idiot...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1011
Colonel Forbin Sure, you can have an "unwinnable war"...just do what Bush has done: Declare war...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1012
Andrew Swallow Is the American army 100% volunteer based, as it is in the UK? We don't have any "national service...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1013
keith It is a shame that US politics has degraded to the point where it is so severely polarized. I remember when I used to visit the US as...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1014
Frank Kotler Unfortuanely, Bush will be out of office before that time. The problem is an impeachment has little chance of succeeding...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1015
Sevag Krikorian So, let's get this straight: Your rationale to hit Iraq harder is that you're not as sufficiently brutal and evil as Saddam...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1016
Beth We are not sufficiently brutal on the insurgents. This is the only way to treat a culture that respects-fears strength and laughs at any...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1018
1) Both Bush Presidents worked with Nixon during the Watergate scandals, 2) GWB was NOT elected by popular vote during the first election, 3) Jeb through out 100,000 African votes during his...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1019
Evenbit Play a little fair. Saddam went after rebels himself and he didn't play nice doing so. Result: A nation that was under control and slowly becoming the beacon of the Middle East before...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1020
This is the definition of quagmire- no acceptable way out. The GOP put us in this situation, I think they have to put up or shut up. The only fast way out of Iraq...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1021
bah "No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th." George Walker Bush Jnr., 17th September, 2003 The...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1022
rpl No, that's the whole point, you daft git...Africa cannot actually pay its debts...it does...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1024
There wasn't containment. While the US and Britain were keeping the playpen doors shut, France, Germany and Russia were trading throught the trap...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1025
bah Actually, technically, the "Dark Ages" are the name for the period of time caused when the Romans left Britain... Romans were city-livers...they liked records and...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1026
Charles Shannon Hendrix Indeed, the families of people missing since the London planting have placed their names and pictures in the newspapers, in order to...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1027
CBFalconer By the way, if you had continued to read, then you would have found the following: "but when the Romans left and the...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1028
CBFalconer ...and where did I say immediately after? I didn't...I was "skipping", as I wasn't intending to provide any "exhaustive and fully complete history of everything that ever...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1029
T.M. Sommers Well, I didn't intend to convey that...I meant "when the Romans left" as in "once the Romans were no longer there"...not directly after but sometime...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1030
Beth Perhaps, but that is what you wrote, and people can only go by what you write. We can't read your mind. for someone who claims to be so open-minded and tolerant, you are...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1031
CBFalconer These comments are directed to T.M. in particular... If it appears that the comments don't...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1032
rpl If I tricks"...a No, on the contrary, I cannot protest at all...if I do, then this is a "psychological trick"...if I make a convincing case, then it's a "psychological trick"...if...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1033
rpl has. Well, at least we can agree on something, that it was, indeed, fantastic to see Pink Floyd back again... "Money...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1034
Beth Confidence inversely proportional to ego, that's the difference; of course the sound engineers know if...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1035
CBFalconer Screw you... I said plenty of times that I'm fully capable of writing short postings (I've posted many...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1037
The purpose of storytelling is pbutt on info and experience. Even auld farts benefit from...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1038
I certainly agree that the storytelling is pbutting on info and experience. I do *not* always see that the old-timers are learning something new every time. I agree that the field...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1039
This is largely a product of short term outcome oriented business management thinking. Maximize short term profit...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1040
Colonel Forbin) writes: At the time I left one PPOE, I coined the term "invalidation of knowledge". This outfit was obsessed with replacing the old, perfectly-functional systems with shiny new...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1041
That would be a perfectly efficient world if they learned what they needed every time. This newsgroup is unique in that the most OT discussions pull up knowledge that somebody else wondered...
The "F" stands for "Folklore" was: US Military Dead during Iraq War
Unique in that respect within the few groups that I post-lurk but no real evidence beyond that. Doesn't have to have a direct...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1043
bah Not at all; I was quite resigned to never getting into this crap in the first place but you insisted on dragging everyone down to the depths of...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1044
Rather than a$$uming things why not state the facts and present valid arguments? Killing people by hiring someone to destroy your own citizens? 1) Salem bin Laden died on the George W...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1045
Kelli Halliburton What opposition? And I don't think any such thing because you can choose to "trim" out whatever you like in reply (in fact, you should...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1046
T.M. Sommers Ah, well, I confess to still being in the process of learning the skill of being able to suffer fools gladly...pardon my failure to achieve...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1047
bah Oh dear, you've returned to this bizarre crap again, have you? This irrational "seige mentality...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1048
Beth ... snip ... Which was precisely what you said. The fact that you modified it somewhere deep in the bowels of an excessive (to my mind) post is not germane. The following is a...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1049
and somewhere This was part of a longer story told about intelligence gathering during the first gulf war. The storyteller...
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I liked the LA-120, and even the LA-36. Compared to an ASR33 they were heavensent. Quiet, fast, easy to setup and use...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1051
The whole idea of terrorism is "shock and awe." You want the people to freak out over the idea...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1052
on Some leakage?! Define hard currency. And how much do you think was enough? I don't remember how many...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1053
Hard currency = a world traded currency such as could be used to buy WMD materials on the open market. It takes more than a few million $ to build an...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1054
Offically (as opposed to unofficial, private involvement), only since WWII have we been involved in a big way...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1055
And the US consistently acted in a fair manner with Iran and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Emirates; and performed joint ventures with technology transfer in deals...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1056
Yup. Most of that was the rug, spice and oil biz. There must have been some tourist trade. WEll, that's what I thought but there's a post somewhere that claims the US has...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1057
Perhaps that was a reference to the war with the Barbary pirates (not to be confused with the Pittsburgh...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1058
Well put, but there is an element of change in US policy that has largely gone unrecognized in these discussions. The people really in control of the US at this point are economic capitalists who...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1059
bah Here: "I was talking about the good old days when Clinton did nothing serious about the first attempt at...