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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-02-06 01:30 PM
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You cannot be the world's #1 Arms Dealer & claim to want Peace.
Not if you want to be taken seriously as a so called honest broker, as we often claim to be in the middle east. You just can't sell weapons of mass destruction to any nation with the price and go about bragging about spreading freedom and democracy and love and liberation.

You cannot give Israel 3 billion a year for decades and expect to be called a fair arbitrator unless you were to give Palestine billions in cash and bombs too.

Oh, I guess you CAN claim it, they are obviously claiming it, but nobody ever points out the gross hypocrisy of it all.
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don954 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-02-06 01:41 PM
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1. kinda ironic isnt it?
And china is building weapons factories, they want in on the game too. I wonder if that's what is going to break our relationship with china? After all, war is OUR core business model...
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-02-06 01:45 PM
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3. Heh
My guess is war WITH China is eventually gonna break our relations with China. Isn't that the end game with the leocons?
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-02-06 01:43 PM
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2. "give Palestine billions in cash and bombs too"
That barely audible creaking sound is poppy bush opening his crypt, you just got his attention.
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partylessinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-02-06 01:45 PM
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4. The truth hurts. But there stands the truth. The truth stands alone.
Thank you!
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partylessinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-02-06 01:45 PM
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5. duplicate
Edited on Wed Aug-02-06 01:49 PM by partylessinOhio
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