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|  #21 Posted on 31.8.04 1517.27
Reposted on: 31.8.11 1518.09 | Originally posted by SKLOKAZOID
Bush is right, and I'm glad he said it. He has the right idea, but I still disagree with his methods.
Originally posted by SKLOKAZOID
Bush isn't right, and I regret that he said it. He has the wrong idea, and I disagree with his methods.
Does the "SK" in "SKLOKAZOID" stand for "Senator Kerry"? :)
(edited by JayJayDean on 31.8.04 1317) | PalpatineW
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| #22 Posted on 31.8.04 1719.54
Reposted on: 31.8.11 1722.09 | Originally posted by StampedeFan23
Cuba's government is wonderful
Human Rights Watch, Dr. Oscar Biscet, everyone on this list serving a 25 year sentence, as well as Reporters Sans Frontieres are all inclined to disagree with you.
I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were just trolling, here. | DrDirt
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| #23 Posted on 31.8.04 2046.39
Reposted on: 31.8.11 2046.42 | What he said originally is indeed what any thinking person knows. However, he never should have said it in that way. You would have to know that people would pounce on it.
Jimmy Carter told the country things they didn't want to hear, even thouh in retrospect, he was correct on alot of it re the oil situation. Being honest is one of the reasons he lost. People don't want to hear hard truths from the president when a positive lie can suffice and make them feel better. | AWArulz
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| #24 Posted on 31.8.04 2054.59
Reposted on: 31.8.11 2055.16 | Originally posted by Jaguar
If you truly think the idea of communism has faded, or that there are no longer people in the world who believe in it, I have some great property in Brooklyn to sell you.
-Jag
Jag - there's all kind of people in the world, but the concept of communism as fought bthrough the years of the cold war is effectively dead.
I agree communism is alive. But their convention is over
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|  #25 Posted on 1.9.04 1745.10
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Perhaps I shouldn't have said "wonderful". Certainly Cuba has it's problems, but they seem pretty minor from what I saw while I was there. They have more democracy that the US and Canada, with a representative for about every 200 people reporting on up the chain to Castro. Everyone seems very informed on the political process and up on international news.
And let's remember that the West is holding politcal prisoners of their own, in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, no less. Enemy combattants...
/not trolling | OndaGrande
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| #26 Posted on 1.9.04 1955.34
Reposted on: 1.9.11 1956.59 | | Then why are they risking their lives in rickety boats to come here? I didn't see a whole lot of Americans trying to escape to Cuba when I was in the Coast Guard. | Grimis
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| #27 Posted on 2.9.04 0632.46
Reposted on: 2.9.11 0633.46 | Originally posted by StampedeFan23
Perhaps I shouldn't have said "wonderful". Certainly Cuba has it's problems, but they seem pretty minor from what I saw while I was there. They have more democracy that the US and Canada, with a representative for about every 200 people reporting on up the chain to Castro. Everyone seems very informed on the political process and up on international news.
This is so ludicrous as to be funny, if the people of Cuba weren't so oppressed. The fact that you bought the line the government feeds tourists says something. Originally posted by StampedeFan23
And let's remember that the West is holding politcal prisoners of their own, in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, no less. Enemy combattants...
/not trolling
Yes, because god knows that we shouldn't hold terrorists plotting to kill us. | Grimis
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| #28 Posted on 2.9.04 0632.46
Reposted on: 2.9.11 0634.38 | Originally posted by StampedeFan23
Perhaps I shouldn't have said "wonderful". Certainly Cuba has it's problems, but they seem pretty minor from what I saw while I was there. They have more democracy that the US and Canada, with a representative for about every 200 people reporting on up the chain to Castro. Everyone seems very informed on the political process and up on international news.
This is so ludicrous as to be funny, if the people of Cuba weren't so oppressed. The fact that you bought the line the government feeds tourists says something. Originally posted by StampedeFan23
And let's remember that the West is holding politcal prisoners of their own, in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, no less. Enemy combattants...
/not trolling
Yes, because god knows that we shouldn't hold terrorists plotting to kill us. | dMr
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|  #29 Posted on 2.9.04 1007.57
Reposted on: 2.9.11 1010.09 | Originally posted by Grimis
...god knows that we shouldn't hold terrorists plotting to kill us.
They're being held without trial or charge. Neither you nor I have been presented with any evidence which proves (or disproves) that they are all 'terrorists plotting to kill us'. Unless of course you count the word of your authorities. Personally I'd like a little more. | | ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE |
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