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         Geoff Gibson Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | 1
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It's so super-secret it doesn't exist. 
Or maybe its kept with the Colonel's recipe.  Have you thought about that?!?!? 
;o) 
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         Scott Richards Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | 2
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Wow, I'm absolutely in the minority here...
  Unless the situation gets a whole lot worse in Iraq, I support staying in it for at least several more years at near current troop levels, and maybe decades at reduced levels.  I think that's the only option we have that has a shot at salvaging something halfway good out of this.
  And by 'good', I mean a relatively stable and free democratized, Western-allied, nation in the Middle East, while avoiding a civil war.  There's no guarantee we'll get there, but I think it's the only decent path we have out of this. 
I completely agree on this.  While we shouldn't have ever gone in, in the first place, now that we are there, a fast pull-out would do a lot more harm than good. 
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         Kevin Hagerman Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | 3
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We're gonna MSG our way out of Iraq?
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         Geoff Gibson Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | 4
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Toed: 
As someone who voted for Bush in 2000 all I can tell you is I am sorry -- I didn't know when I pulled the lever that he would start this war.  I understand how you feel, believe me. 
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         Kevin Hagerman Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:21pm | IP Logged | 5
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It is the 2004 voters who can't pretend ignorance.  And there were a LOT of them.
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         Geoff Gibson Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | 6
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We're gonna MSG our way out of Iraq?  
Kevin: There is strong evidence of the Colonel's role in all things secret.  Here is some testimony to that:  
Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.  Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?  Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"  Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?  Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass! 
  
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         Michael Roberts Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | 7
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Did anybody really believe that a privileged, failed business man, drug 
 addict, C student could pull off, let alone conduct something so complex as 
 nation building?
 
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 There are plenty of reasons to attack Bush, but I don't think his college 
 grades should be one of them. Neither Gore nor Kerry were great students.
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         Christopher Alan Miller Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | 8
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It is the 2004 voters who can't pretend ignorance.  And there were a LOT of them 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
And a lot wish there was a better candidate to choose. 
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         Kevin Hagerman Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | 9
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This is where voting AGAINST someone comes into play.  Saddam Hussein would have been preferable to another term of Bush.
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         Christopher Alan Miller Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | 10
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How do you expect to be taken seriously when you make absurd statements like that? 
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         Michael Roberts Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | 11
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Saddam Hussein would have been preferable to another term of Bush.
 
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 You are so wrong. Saddam would have plunged us into a never-ending war 
 with Canada to get back at Terrance and Phillip.
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         Michael Roberts Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | 12
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How do you expect to be taken seriously when you make absurd statements 
 like that?
 
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 Kevin expects to be taken seriously?
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