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59millionmorons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 09:04 PM
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Why does terrorism always go up while Republicans are in office?
Two of the highest terrorism incidents have been during Republican watch 1983(Reagan) 2003(Bush).
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 09:05 PM
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1. Republicains could not defend and protect a Turkey sammich.
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stavka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 09:17 PM
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2. Terrorism is a tactic....it neither goes up or down
...anymore than the use of the ambush, the vertical envelopment, or the Blitz does in any particular frame of time.

Intensity of anti-American violence may well have gone up as you claim.

Terrorism is a noun that denotes the act of a particular verb, it is not a noun in-and-of itself.

It can never be found, or isolated, or defeated...any more than justice can.

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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 09:21 PM
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3. So they can justify their warmongering existence.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 09:22 PM
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4. 'cuz even maniacs tend to only kill people when they're being fucked with
and Republicans fuck with people more. Much as we invariably support Israel, under Carter and Clinton we kept the dialog open and tried to make some moves toward fairness. It goes alont with the spirit of liberalism: people have the right to be different. Reactionary nutcases want to eradicate anything different.

This is ot an issue of justification or fairness, it's pure causality.

But then, you knew this...
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 11:29 PM
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5. Read Chomsky for your answer...
If you've never read it, you are in for a shock!...

Read about the Right-Wing "Master Plan": http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-contents.html

Have you read "War is a Racket"?: http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 11:31 PM
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6. incompetence
and the magic of partnership and synergy
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