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wouldn't it be a good step if obama asked the iraqi pres to pardon this guy?

"i like my sugar w/ coffee and cream" and to complete the b-boys breakfast bits: "i don't mean to brag - i don't mean to boast - but i'm inter-continental when i eat french toast"

cc.com erotic performance = poor

odd, then, that they seem so ineffective on you, socrates

They probably don't have as many assholes like you talking about murdering people like it is some kind of joke. whaaa? dude, the germans invented dark humor!

dude, do you want habeus corpus? it's kinda like a golden-rule baby-jesus thing - if you want basic human rights, you have to afford them to everybody else too, and you don't get to pick and choose because then the whole fucking thing falls apart. people should be able to challenge their detention if they actually did some fucked up shit, they should be tried if they're guilty, they should be punished it they're not guilty, they should be free what on earth is so hard to understand about that? do we really have to refight the english civil war? resign the magna carta? re-create hammurabi's code? exactly how far back in time do you want to go?

if we didn't want to afford due process and other basic rights to non-usa citizens then we shouldn't have joined the u.n. or signed the convention on human rights serenity, certainly you've read military history? you know, something other than world war 2 stuff where we were the golden knights, the conquering heroes? history shows, time after time after time, that military power, unchecked by silly, dumb-ass, know-nothing, liberal-wanker civilians results in totalitarian states - what exactly are you fighting for? do you want to preserve the ideals of the american liberal democracy or not? if you just want to be in a neo-fascist state, can you please emmigrat to russia, eh?

a more sensible cut n' paste job, complete w/ the source, another dead hero, douglas adams: "This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. "

tyler durden has some soap to sell you kev

as far as releasing bad guys and having them show back up on the battlefield - hey, look at your history - its a time-honored tradition! - for example, the north and south exchanged prisoners during the civil war (and when the practice was stopped, the "american auschwitz" of andersonville resulted) - prisoner exchanges were common in the napoleonic wars too - now, the germans and soviets just murdered each others prisoner, but then how well do we remember them? your choices w/ POWs/enemy combatants/guys in pj's/whatever are a) kill them after they surrender (okay, solves the problem, but costs you your national soul in the process) b) hold them for the duration of the war (problematic given the politics/expense, especially when you declare a war that by definition can have no ending - "war on terror") or c) at some point release/exchange them. is there a 4th option?

if we'd defined them as soldiers, then no, we could have used the geneva convention, which would have banned the torture we used on them, and doesn't require trials i guess i'm a traitor but i have sympathies for our enemies, or at least i try to honestly understand them - they have some legitimate arguments, not the least of which is that we (and you seem to personify this quite well) think of ourselves as the new rome, as an imperial master which has the god-given right to impose it's will on the world and in the process trample all over anyone in our way - look at yourself - clearly you think of yourself as strong and brave - if you were born and raised in afghanistan/iraq/saudi arabia/iran/pakistan, which side would you be on right now? would you not see us as arrogant or hypocritical?

um, carl, wtf? wasn't the point obvious? there's been another giant school shooting, this time in germany? i seem to recall there was a school shooting in krautland of international repute just a few years ago too, so not exactly a strong piece of evidence of the effectiveness of gun control in preventing fucked-up shit. we still got the krauts beat though w/ recent stories of shootings at offices, churches n' homes.

what are you guys worried for - don't you know your government is in control?

in stuttgart, my old home town... if we just banned germans, this wouldn'tve happened!

...and then eat some ho-hos

i desire her to take a bath

that should be an easy question to answer upon landing back on dry-land

1.6 million for these boys...

i find just TALKING to a hot girl usually works pretty well

look into the mirror, tilt your head back and say "AH" no doubt your ma was conquered by the great roof(ie) there pink?

where's the great roof bill?

what shapp said seriously, it's not like big lines form for this route - and if you rope solo it (4 bolts right off the ground make it a great for that) you don't even have to bore the hell out of your belayer!

i doubt she voted

i usually curse when i read too

what are you talking about, non-political? clearly this poor girl's condition is the result of bush, cheney and the minions of the military-industrial complex!