{"article":{"id":41922,"heading":"TAKE THE IRAQI WAR QUIZ","author":"STEPHEN SHALOM","created":"2003-03-28 02:01:53","modified":"2003-09-27 03:27:12","last_modified":"Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:27:12","article":"

IRAQI WAR QUIZ

by Stephen R. Shalom



1.\tThe anti-war movement supports our troops by urging that they be brought home immediately so they neither kill nor get killed in a unjust war.

How has the Bush administration shown its support for our troops?

a.\tThe Republican-controlled House Budget Committee voted to cut

$25 billion in veterans benefits over the next 10 years.

b.\tThe Bush administration proposed cutting $172 million from

impact aid programs which provide school funding for children of

military personnel.

c.\tThe administration ordered the Dept. of Veterans Affairs to stop

publicizing health benefits available to veterans.

d.\tAll of the above.

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2.\tThe anti-war movement believes that patriotism means urging our country to do what is right.

How do Bush administration officials define patriotism?

a.\tPatriotism means emulating Dick Cheney, who serves as

Vice-President while receiving $100,000-$1,000,000 a year from

Halliburton, the multi-billion dollar company which is already lining

up for major contracts in post-war Iraq.

b.\tPatriotism means emulating Richard Perle, the warhawk who serves

as head of the Defense Intelligence Board while at the same time

meeting

with Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi on behalf of Trireme, a company

of which he is a managing partner, involved in security and military

technologies, and while agreeing to work as a paid lobbyist for Global

Crossing, a telecommunications giant seeking a major Pentagon

contract.

c.\tPatriotism means emulating George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul

Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, John Bolton, Tom DeLay, John Ashcroft, Lewis

Libby, and others who enthusiastically supported the Vietnam War while

avoiding serving in it and who now are sending others to kill and be

killed in Iraq.

d.\tAll of the above.

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3.\tThe Bush administration has accused Saddam Hussein of lying regarding his weapons of mass destruction.

Which of the following might be considered less than truthful?

a.\tConstant claims by the Bush administration that there was

documentary evidence linking Iraq to attempted uranium purchases in

Niger, despite the fact that the documents were forgeries and CIA

analysts doubted their authenticity.



b.\tA British intelligence report on Iraq's security services that

was in fact plagiarized, with selected modifications, from a student

article.

c.\tThe frequent citation of the incriminating testimony of Iraqi

defector Hussein Kamel, while suppressing that part of the testimony

inwhich Kamel stated that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had been

destroyed following the 1991 Gulf War.

d.\tAll of the above.

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4.\tWhite House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher stormed out of a press conference when the assembled reporters broke into laughter after he declared that the U.S. would never try to bribe members of the UN.

What should Fleisher have said to defend himself?

a.\tIt wasn't just bribery; we also ordered the bugging of the home

and office phones and emails of the UN ambassadors of Security Council

member states that were undecided on war.

b.\tOh, come on! We've been doing this for years. In 1990 when Yemen

voted against authorizing war with Iraq, the U.S. ambassador declared

\"That will be the most expensive 'no' vote you ever cast.\"

c.\tWhy do you think the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act makes one

of the conditions for an African country to receive preferential

access to U.S. markets that it \"not engage in activities that undermine

United States national security or foreign policy interests\"?

d.\tAll of the above.

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5.\tGeorge Bush has declared that \"we have no fight with the Iraqi people.\"

What could he have cited as supporting evidence?

a.\tU.S. maintenance of 12 years of crippling sanctions that

strengthened Saddam Hussein while contributing to the death of

hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

b.\tThe fact that \"coalition\" forces have indicated that they will use

cluster bombs in Iraq, despite warnings from human rights groups

that \"The use of cluster munitions in Iraq will endanger civilians for

years to come.\"

c.\tBy pointing to the analogy of Afghanistan, which the U.S.

pledged not to forget about when the war was over, and for which the

current Bush administration foreign aid budget request included not

one cent in aid.

d.\tAll of the above.

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6.\tThe Bush administration has touted the many nations that are

part of the \"coalition of the willing.\"

Which of the following statements about this coalition is true?

a.\tIn most of the coalition countries polls show that a majority,

often an overwhelming majority, of the people oppose the war.

b.\tMore than ten of the members of the coalition of the willing are

actually a coalition of the unwilling - unwilling to reveal their

names.



c.\tCoalition members - most of whose contributions to the war are

negligible or even zero - constitute less than a quarter of the

countries in the UN and contain less than 20% of the world's

population.



d.\tAll of the above.

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7.\tThe war on Iraq is said to be part of the \"war on terrorism.\"

Which of the following is true?

a.\tA senior American counterintelligence official said: \"An

American invasion of Iraq is already being used as a recruitment tool

by Al Qaeda and other groups....And it is a very effective tool.\"

b.\tAn American official, based in Europe, said Iraq had become \"a

battle cry, in a way,\" for Al Qaeda recruiters.



c.\tFrance's leading counter-terrorism judge said: \"Bin Laden's

strategy has always been to demonstrate to the Islamic community that

the West, and especially the U.S., is starting a global war against

Muslims. An attack on Iraq might confirm this vision for many

Muslims. I am very worried about the next wave of recruits.\"

d.\tAll of the above.

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8.\tThe Bush administration says it is waging war to stop the spread

of weapons of mass destruction. Which of the following is true?

a.\tThe United States has refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test

Ban Treaty, viewed worldwide as the litmus test for seriousness about

nuclear disarmament.

b.\tThe United States has insisted on a reservation to the Chemical

Weapons Convention allowing the U.S. President the right to refuse an

inspection of U.S. facilities on national security grounds, and

blocked efforts to improve compliance with the Biological and Toxin Weapons

Convention.

c.\tVice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, Director of the Defense

Intelligence Agency, testified on Feb. 11, 2003, \"The long-term

trends with respect to WMD and missile proliferation are bleak. States seek

these capabilities for regional purposes, or to provide a hedge to

deter or offset U.S. military superiority.\"

d.\tAll of the above.

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9.\tThe Bush administration says it wants to bring democracy to Iraq

and the Middle East. Which of the following is true?

a.\tIf there were democracy in Saudi Arabia today, backing for the

U.S. war effort would be the first thing to go, given the country's

\"increasingly anti-American population deeply opposed to the

war.\"

b.\tThe United States subverted some of the few democratic

governments in the Middle East (Syria in 1949, Iran in 1953), and has

backed undemocratic regimes in the region ever since.

c.\tThe United States supported the crushing of anti-Saddam Hussein

revolts in Iraq in 1991.

d.\tAll of the above.

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10.\tColin Powell cited as evidence of an Iraq-Al Qaeda link an

audiotape from bin Laden in which he called Saddam Hussein and his

Baath Party regime \"infidels.\" Which of the following is more

compelling evidence?

a.\tAn FBI official told the New York Times: \"We've been

looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think

it's there.\"

b.\tAccording to a classified British intelligence report seen by

BBC News, \"There are no current links between the Iraqi regime

and the al-Qaeda network.\"

c.\tAccording to Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global

Network of Terror, \"Since U.S. intervention in Afghanistan in

October 2001, I have examined several tens of thousands of documents recovered

from Al Qaeda and Taliban sources. In addition to listening to 240

tapes taken from Al Qaeda's central registry, I debriefed several Al Qaeda

and Taliban detainees. I could find no evidence of links between Iraq

and Al Qaeda.\"

d.\tAll of the above.



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ANSWERS AND SOURCES

1.\td (a) Cong. Lane Evans, \"Veterans Programs Slashed by House

Republicans,\" Press Release, 3\/13\/03,

http:\/\/www.veterans.house.gov\/democratic\/press\/108th\/3-13-03budget.htm<\/a>.

(b) Brian Faler, \"Educators Angry Over Proposed Cut in Aid; Many

Children in Military Families Would Feel Impact,\" Washington

Post,

3\/19\/03, p. A29. (c) See Veterans' for Common Sense, letter to George

W.

Bush, 3\/20\/03 http:\/\/www.veteransforcommonsense.org\/print.asp?id=563<\/a>;

Melissa B. Robinson, \"Hospitals Face Budget Crunch,\"

Associated Press,

7\/31\/02; Jason Tait, \"Veterans angered by marketing ban,\"

Eagle-Tribune

(Lawrence, MA), 8\/2\/02,

http:\/\/www.eagletribune.com\/news\/stories\/20020802\/FP_003.htm<\/a>



2.\td (a) Warren Vieth and Elizabeth Douglass, \" Ousting Hussein

could open the door for U.S. and British firms. French, Russian and

Chinese rivals would lose their edge,\" Los Angeles Times,

3\/12\/03, p.

I:1; Robert Bryce and Julian Borger, \"Halliburton: Cheney is

still paid

by Pentagon contractor, Bush deputy gets Dollars 1m from firm with

Iraq

oil deal,\" Guardian (London), 3\/12\/03, p. 5 (which notes that

Halliburton \"would not say how much the payments are; the

obligatory

disclosure statement filled by all top government officials says only

that they are in the range of\" $100,000 and $1 million. (b)

Seymour M.

Hersh, \"Lunch with the Chairman,\" New Yorker, 3\/16\/03;

Stephen Labaton,

\"Pentagon Adviser Is Also Advising Global Crossing,\" NYT,

3\/21\/03, p.

C1. Perle is to be paid $725,000 for his lobbying effort, including

$600,000 if his lobbying is successful. (c) New Hampshire Gazette,

\"The

Chickenhawks,\" http:\/\/nhgazette.com\/chickenhawks.html<\/a>.

3.\td (a) See the evidence collected in Cong. Henry Waxman's letter

to George W. Bush, 3\/17\/03,

http:\/\/www.house.gov\/waxman\/text\/admin_iraq_march_17_let.htm<\/a>.

(b) See

Glen Rangwala's report, http:\/\/traprockpeace.org\/britishdossier.html<\/a>.

(c) See Glen Rangwala's report, http:\/\/traprockpeace.org\/kamel.html<\/a>.

4.\td (a) Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy, and Peter Beaumont, The

Observer (London), 3\/2\/03. (b) Quoted in Phyllis Bennis, Calling the

Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN, New York: Olive Branch,

1996, p. 33. (c) Sarah Anderson, Phyllis Bennis, and John Cavanagh,

Coalition of the Willing or Coalition of the Coerced?: How The Bush

Administration Influences Allies in Its War on Iraq, Washington, DC:

Institute for Policy Studies, 2\/26\/03, p. 4.

5.\td (a) For background, see Anthony Arnove, ed., Iraq Under Siege:

The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, Cambridge: South End Press,

updated ed. 2003. (b) Paul Waugh, \"Labour MPs Attack Hoon After

He

Reveals That British Forces Will Use Cluster Bombs,\" Independent,

3\/21\/03, p. 4; Human Rights Watch, Press Release, 3\/18\/03:

\"Persian

Gulf: U.S. Cluster Bomb Duds A Threat; Warning Against Use of Cluster

Bombs in Iraq.\" (c) Zvi Bar'el, \"Flaws in the Afghan

Model,\" Ha'aretz,

3\/14\/03,

http:\/\/www.haaretzdaily.com\/hasen\/objects\/pages\/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?ite<\/a>

mNo=272884.

6.\td (a) See, for example, the revealing comment of Secretary of

State Powell: \"We need to knock down this idea that nobody is on

our

side. So many nations recognize this danger [of Iraq's weapons]. And

they do it in the face of public opposition.\" Quoted in Steven R.

Weisman With Felicity Barringer, \"Urgent Diplomacy Fails To Gain

U.S. 9

Votes In The U.N.\" NYT, 3\/10\/03, p. A1) (b) U.S. Dept. of State,

Daily

Press Briefing, Richard Boucher, Washington, DC, 3\/18\/03. (c) Country

list: White House, Statement of Support from Coalition, 3\/25\/03,

http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/03\/print\/20030325-8.html<\/a>;

population calculated from Statistical Abstract of the United States,

2001, Washington, DC: 2001, table 1327. Total includes USA. The White

House list includes countries whose leaders have done no more than

state

their support for the United States, and the listing changes from day

to

day, with some countries being added and some removed.

7.\td (a) Don Van Natta Jr. and Desmond Butler, \"Anger On

Iraq Seen

As New Qaeda Recruiting Tool,\" NYT, 3\/16\/03, p. I:1. (b) Van

Natta and

Butler, NYT, 3\/16\/03. (c) Van Natta and Butler, NYT, 3\/16\/03.

8.\td (a) Colum Lynch, \"U.S. Boycotts Nuclear Test Ban

Meeting; Some

Delegates at U.N. Session Upset at Latest Snub of Pact Bush Won't

Back,\"

Washington Post, 11\/12\/02, p. A6. (b) Amy E. Smithson, \"U.S.

Implementation of the CWC,\" in Jonathan B. Tucker, The Chemical

Weapons

Convention: Implementation Challenges and Solutions, Monterey

Institute,

April 2001, pp. 23-29, http:\/\/cns.miis.edu\/pubs\/reports\/tuckcwc.htm<\/a>;

Jonathan Tucker, \"The Fifth Review Conference of the Biological

and

Toxin Weapons Convention,\" Feb. 2002,

http:\/\/www.nti.org\/e_research\/e3_7b.html<\/a>. (c)

Testimony before the

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, excerpted at

http:\/\/traprockpeace.org\/usefulquotesoniraq.html<\/a>.



9.\td (a) Craig S. Smith, \"Saudi Arabia Seems Calm But, Many

Say, Is

Seething,\" NYT, 3\/24\/03, p. B13. In fact, \"Though the Saudi

government

officially denies it, the bombing campaign is being directed from

Saudi

Arabia - something that few Saudis realize.\" (b) On Syria, see

Douglas

Little, ACold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945

1958,@ Middle East Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter 1990, pp. 55 57. On

Iran, see Mark J. Gasiorowski, \"The 1953 Coup D'Etat in

Iran,\"

International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 19, Aug. 1987, pp.

261-86. (c) Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes:

The

Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, New York: HarperPerennial. 1999, chap.

1.

10.\t d (re audiotape, see David Johnston, \"Top U.S.

Officials Press

Case Linking Iraq To Al Qaeda,\" NYT, 2\/12\/03, p. A1; Mohamad

Bazzi,

\"U.S. says bin Laden tape urging Iraqis to attack appears

real,\"

Newsday, 2\/12\/03, p. A5. (a) James Risen and David Johnston,

\"Split at

C.I.A. and F.B.I. On Iraqi Ties to Al Qaeda,\" NYT, 2\/2\/03, p.

I:13. (b)

\"Leaked Report Rejects Iraqi al-Qaeda Link,\" BBC News,

2\/5\/03. (c) Rohan

Gunaratna, \"Iraq and Al Qaeda: No Evidence of Alliance,\"

International

Herald Tribune, 2\/19\/03.



Interpreting Your Score

9-10 Correct: Excellent. Contact United for Peace and Justice,

http:\/\/www.unitedforpeace.org\/<\/a>, and work to

fight the war and the system

that produced it.

6-8 Correct: Fair. You've been watching a few too many former generals

and government officials who provide the \"expert\"

commentary for the

mainstream media. Read the alternative media!

3-5 Correct: Poor. Don't feel bad. George W. Bush only got a C- in

International Relations at College.

0-2 Correct: Failing. You have a bright future as an

\"embedded\"

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I'm going to print this out and pass it around school as a flyer.","author":"Adam Smith","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 05:48:58","modified":"2003-03-28 05:48:58","fileurl":""},{"id":60020,"heading":"the horror","article":"Fuck the corporate media","author":"Sy$teMF@iLuRe","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-27 10:07:42","modified":"2003-05-27 10:07:42","fileurl":""},{"id":60268,"heading":"If yo uask the wrong questions","article":"You will get the wrong answers.\r\n\r\nThat is the situation with your questionare.","author":"scottie","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-29 07:00:27","modified":"2003-05-29 07:00:27","fileurl":""},{"id":60289,"heading":"scottie","article":"And YOU will never have anything intelligent to say.","author":"brigg","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-29 13:13:58","modified":"2003-05-29 13:13:58","fileurl":""},{"id":60299,"heading":"^","article":"Not me. 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All of us KOBES are hung like pimples.\r\n\r\nwww.kobehq.com","author":"KOBE SBM","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-29 14:29:25","modified":"2003-05-29 14:29:25","fileurl":""},{"id":60663,"heading":"I'm getting a PhD in Penis Growth","article":"My life as a short dicked man has driven me to compulsive Internet stalking. 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But screw them, they are all sub-humans anyway right?","author":"..","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-13 14:16:45","modified":"2003-07-13 14:16:45","fileurl":""},{"id":72174,"heading":"without the C I A","article":"We wouldn't have this mountain of hate directed againts the people who have NO idea what the C I A does for its pay.\r\nThey are the goons of the corporations to deal with 'trouble makers'.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-13 14:21:08","modified":"2003-07-13 14:21:08","fileurl":""},{"id":72178,"heading":"..","article":"a. U.S. maintenance of 12 years of crippling sanctions that \r\nstrengthened Saddam Hussein while contributing to the death of \r\nhundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. \r\n\r\nodd I though they were UN sactions, but don't worry more than two thirds of the deaths occured in the shite south, while the Kurds in the north had litte to no increase in the child mortalty rate DESPITE THE SANCATIONS. Still better 200,000 die so Saddam can have 50 new places rather than say 6,000 to get rid of him.","author":"..","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-13 14:29:53","modified":"2003-07-13 14:29:53","fileurl":""},{"id":72179,"heading":"^","article":"circle \r\ncircle going nowhere \r\ncircle stuck in neutral \r\n\r\n","author":"circle","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-13 14:43:20","modified":"2003-07-13 14:43:20","fileurl":""},{"id":72181,"heading":"..","article":"b. The United States subverted some of the few democratic \r\ngovernments in the Middle East (Syria in 1949, Iran in 1953), and has \r\nbacked undemocratic regimes in the region ever since.\r\n\r\nHalf truth, Syria 49 the French, Iran 53 MI6 lead the charge not the CIA. After all as you guys have ingeniously figured out it's largely about oil in the middle east. In 1953 Iran nationalized the ADOL oil company, - a British oil company, who do you think was really pissed off? and also by the way rejected compensation terms. Don't get me wrong the CIA did play a role; I think the Brits fed them some line about the Commies trying to take over. Don't know why the CIA hates Commies, they have only killed more people than fascists.\r\n","author":"..","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-13 14:48:45","modified":"2003-07-13 14:48:45","fileurl":""},{"id":72182,"heading":"^","article":"circle \r\ncircle going nowhere \r\ncircle stuck in neutral \r\n\r\n","author":"circle","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-13 14:51:06","modified":"2003-07-13 14:51:06","fileurl":""},{"id":72186,"heading":"..","article":"c. France's leading counter-terrorism judge said: "Bin Laden's \r\nstrategy has always been to demonstrate to the Islamic community that \r\nthe West, and especially the U.S., is starting a global war against \r\nMuslims. An attack on Iraq might confirm this vision for many \r\nMuslims. I am very worried about the next wave of recruits." \r\n\r\nThis is why you should never ever listen to the French. Damn Algeria and Vietnam. Anyway Bin Laden\u2019s ultimate goal is the over through of the house of Saud and replacing it with an Islamic government. Bin Laden has no respect or love for Saddam and is as happy as everyone else who didn\u2019t want this war, to see Saddam go. Although the Iraqi war so far has benefited him almost as much as the United States. It still is a very interesting proxy war. But bad news, I think the CIA now has a really low opinion of his capabilities, and since the Saudi government is bending over backwards now to the US. I don't think the CIA is going with their original plan to have an Islamic revolution in Arabia, to bad I was sorting off hoping for it. Good Justice, Persians out Arabs in. \r\n","author":"..","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-13 15:14:23","modified":"2013-11-11 00:23:54","fileurl":""},{"id":72188,"heading":"^","article":"circle \r\ncircle going nowhere \r\ncircle stuck in neutral \r\n\r\n","author":"circle","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-13 15:19:11","modified":"2003-07-13 15:19:11","fileurl":""},{"id":81081,"heading":"square","article":"square\r\nfour corners\r\ncome to a screeching halt at each one\r\nthen continue tell i come \r\nto another one\r\nsquare","author":"square","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-06 02:33:31","modified":"2003-09-06 02:33:31","fileurl":""},{"id":81082,"heading":"square","article":"square\r\nfour corners\r\ncome to a screeching halt at each one\r\nthen continue tell i come \r\nto another one\r\nsquare","author":"square","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-06 02:33:41","modified":"2003-09-06 02:33:41","fileurl":""},{"id":81083,"heading":"square","article":"square\r\nfour corners\r\ncome to a screeching halt at each one\r\nthen continue tell i come \r\nto another one\r\nsquare","author":"square","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-06 02:33:51","modified":"2003-09-06 02:33:51","fileurl":""},{"id":81087,"heading":"GO BUSH!!!","article":"why are liberals so brainwashed? Peace is not patriotic when we have some physco dictator with the capabilities of biological and nuclear weapons to use on the US or any other nation they want. It is great they got rid of Saddam and i hope they find and kill him. he has done horrible things to the people of Iraq and if he had the chance, he would do it to people living in the US. By the way, he does not care if you are against the war, he would still kill you, brutally if possible. And I am sick and tired of you liberals and your argument saying oh, well, they have found no evidence of nuclear weapons in Iraq, so we had no right to go into that country. OK Saddam is a ruthless dictator, but not a COMPLETE IDIOT! he obviously would hide or send the nuclear weapons some where else. What a stupid argument! you take him for a dumbo, when really, it is you liberals who are dumb and brain washed by all these liberal, tree hugging, pot smoking, enviromental crazy, peace fundamentalists in the government who don't give any good reasons to hate and degrade Bush! you are all like sheep, follow each other and make fun of any one who is pro bush or who is for the war in Iraq, so you know what? just shut up and try to use your brains for once!!!!","author":"kick saddam","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-06 02:49:07","modified":"2003-09-06 02:49:07","fileurl":""},{"id":81088,"heading":"GO BUSH!!!","article":"why are liberals so brainwashed? Peace is not patriotic when we have some physco dictator with the capabilities of biological and nuclear weapons to use on the US or any other nation they want. It is great they got rid of Saddam and i hope they find and kill him. he has done horrible things to the people of Iraq and if he had the chance, he would do it to people living in the US. By the way, he does not care if you are against the war, he would still kill you, brutally if possible. And I am sick and tired of you liberals and your argument saying oh, well, they have found no evidence of nuclear weapons in Iraq, so we had no right to go into that country. OK Saddam is a ruthless dictator, but not a COMPLETE IDIOT! he obviously would hide or send the nuclear weapons some where else. What a stupid argument! you take him for a dumbo, when really, it is you liberals who are dumb and brain washed by all these liberal, tree hugging, pot smoking, enviromental crazy, peace fundamentalists in the government who don't give any good reasons to hate and degrade Bush! you are all like sheep, follow each other and make fun of any one who is pro bush or who is for the war in Iraq, so you know what? just shut up and try to use your brains for once!!!!","author":"kick saddam","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-06 02:50:26","modified":"2003-09-06 02:50:26","fileurl":""},{"id":81090,"heading":"twisted echo revisited","article":"why are morons so brainwashed? Peace is not patriotic when we have some physco dictator with the capabilities of biological and nuclear weapons to use on any other nation we want. It would be great if they got rid of Bush & Co. and i hope they find and *** him. he has done horrible things to the people of Iraq and if he had the chance, he would do it to people living in the US. By the way, he does not care if you are against the war, he would still kill you, brutally if possible. And I am sick and tired of you morons and your argument saying oh, well, they have found no evidence of nuclear weapons in Iraq, so we had no right to go into that country. OK Bush is a ruthless dictator, but a COMPLETE IDIOT! he obviously would hide or send the nuclear weapons some where else. What a stupid argument! you take him for a dumbo, when really, it is you morons who are dumb and brain washed by all these idiot, tree chopping, tobacco smoking, enviromental crazy, war fundamentalists in the government who don't give any good reasons to hate and degrade the Constitution! you are all like sheep, follow each other and make fun of any one who is anti bush or who is against the war in Iraq, so you know what? just shut up and try to use your brains for once???!","author":".","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-06 02:58:48","modified":"2003-09-06 02:58:48","fileurl":""},{"id":81276,"heading":"your leader got a d.u.i. snorted coke and was awol in the military","article":"mr "go bush" writes like a 4th grader and sounds about as intellegent as his idol.\r\n\r\nhey there dummy\/\r\ndid yo ever read in the history books how YOUR government OVERTHREW the only two DEMOCRATIC countries in the middle east...SYRIA AND IRAN?\r\n\r\never read how your government PROTECTS certain DICTATORS all over the world as long as they play ball ECONOMICALLY\r\n\r\n\r\nI GUESS THIS IDIOT NEVER BOTHERED TO READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE befor coming up with a response","author":"kick bush out","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-07 21:27:13","modified":"2003-09-07 21:27:13","fileurl":""},{"id":83309,"heading":"BLAST FROM THE PAST","article":"HERES THE LIES FROM BACK IN THE DAY.\r\nTHE LIES YOU MORONS BELIEVED TO\r\nSET THE CASE OF \r\nIRAQ=AL-QUEDA=BIN LADEN=911 TERRORISM\r\n\r\nNOW BUSH SAYS NO IT AINT TRUE???\r\nTHAT THERE WAS NO AL QUEDA LINKS TO SADDAM AND 911\r\n\r\n10.\tColin Powell cited as evidence of an Iraq-Al Qaeda link an \r\naudiotape from bin Laden in which he called Saddam Hussein and his \r\nBaath Party regime "infidels." Which of the following is more \r\ncompelling evidence? \r\n\r\na.\tAn FBI official told the New York Times: "We've been \r\nlooking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think \r\nit's there." \r\n\r\nb.\tAccording to a classified British intelligence report seen by \r\nBBC News, "There are no current links between the Iraqi regime \r\nand the al-Qaeda network." \r\n\r\nc.\tAccording to Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global \r\nNetwork of Terror, "Since U.S. intervention in Afghanistan in \r\nOctober 2001, I have examined several tens of thousands of documents recovered \r\nfrom Al Qaeda and Taliban sources. In addition to listening to 240 \r\ntapes taken from Al Qaeda's central registry, I debriefed several Al Qaeda \r\nand Taliban detainees. I could find no evidence of links between Iraq \r\nand Al Qaeda." \r\n\r\nd.\tAll of the above. \r\n\r\n\r\nDONT FORGET TO READ THE YAHOO ARTICLE!!!\r\n\r\ni ll be posting your right winger bullshit \r\nsoon\r\nto make you idiots look even more dumb.\r\nYOUR OWN QUOTES AGAINST YOU!!","author":" FIRST POSTED march 10th 2003","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-18 22:28:20","modified":"2003-09-18 22:28:20","fileurl":""},{"id":83500,"heading":"unfortunate","article":"i wish i knew all these things beforehand.\r\nit is such a shame.\r\nmy son died two months ago in Iraq .\r\ni wish i had him back.\r\nplease stop this war.","author":"marine mom","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-19 18:33:14","modified":"2003-09-19 18:33:14","fileurl":""},{"id":84656,"heading":"fuck bush","article":"this is bullshit\r\n\r\nwar on terror is a lie\r\n\r\nstop the killing now","author":"truth","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-25 23:55:13","modified":"2003-09-25 23:55:13","fileurl":""},{"id":84933,"heading":"did you bother to read the article?","article":"wow\r\n7 months after this was written\r\nnow all the \r\n"conspiracy theories"\r\nare turning our to be true.....","author":"goober","parent_id":41922,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-27 03:27:12","modified":"2003-09-27 03:27:12","fileurl":""}]}