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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 05:21 PM
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Rumsfeld calls insurgents "extremists". Could he call you an extremist?
Edited on Sun Jan-02-05 05:29 PM by norml
This is a, new term entering the debate, alert! Here is a link to the Google News results for the words, rumsfeld and extremists. http://news.google.com/news?q=rumsfeld%20extremists&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wn "These folks have a lot to lose: The extremists and terrorists and the people who are determined to try to take back that country are determined not to lose," said Mr Rumsfeld.
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Pam-Moby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 05:24 PM
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1. I am not a extremists
Just a person determined to get my country back...
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Rockerdem Donating Member (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 05:29 PM
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4. Let him
Who would give a crap?
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ckramer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 05:27 PM
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2. That's like calling your mother Mom
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 05:29 PM
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3. I'm sure he's called us much worse than that in private
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signmike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 05:42 PM
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5. Since I'm on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum from
Rummy, Hell Yes!

And I want my country back, too.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 05:47 PM
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6. Mr. Rumsfeld is a terrorist by his actions and words.
Mr. Rumsfeld is guilty of War Crime and Crimes Against Humanity. Mr. Rumsfeld is just one of a multitude in power in the George Walker Bush Administration guilty of these crimes. All one need to do is to look at we are doing in Iraq. The killing, maiming, and suffering of civilians we are causing there is as bad as anything Hitler did.
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thebigdonkey Donating Member (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 06:10 PM
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9. words alone can not make you a terroist
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 06:30 PM
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10. Well, yeah...
But there are his actions as Secretary of Defense to back up my charges.
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:51 AM
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13. You left out waging wars of aggression, as a war crime charge.
Crimes against humanity, and waging wars of aggression would be two of the war crime charges against Rummy.
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Rockerdem Donating Member (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 05:48 PM
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7. Of all the things to worrry about this admin, this is #4,287 on the list
nt
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:16 AM
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11. Is it really extremists that we are fighting? Why the use of that term?
It is because it is a term so broad that it could be applied to anyone who opposes them. Terms such as terrorist, or insurgent couldn't be applied to us, but they use terms such as extremist, or radical to describe us all the time.
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PST Donating Member (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 12:15 PM
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16. bingo
also, notice how fox doesn't talk about the 'War in Iraq' anymore, it has become the 'War on Terror'. it sounds and sells a lot better doesn't it? Pravda had more journalistic integrity than these whores.
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 06:01 PM
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8. Proud if he did.
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AgadorSparticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:34 AM
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12. kitchen must be getting REAL hot for him to spew this irrelevant shit.
bye bye rummy!

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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:59 AM
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14. A lot of us have been called "dissidents"
(because we believe there was election fraud). They probably consider dissidents to be extremists - just because we disagree with them.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 12:03 PM
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15. "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
These scumbags manage to make Barry Goldwater look good....
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