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ButterflyBlood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:12 AM Original message |
What makes Gaddafi's death any worse than Mussolini's or Ceaușescu's? |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. I don't celebrate anybody's death. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 01:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
21. me either. the people who did it have the burden. I won't help. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
2. after the crap Bush made up about Saddam, it's hard to take a claims that someone is the boogie man |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. That's like blinders on a horse. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 07:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. not really....most of the long time DU'ers here do have the history of Iraq.. |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Bush lied about WMDs, not Saddam's status as a genocidal monster. nt |
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ButterflyBlood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:24 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Plus Gaddafi's crimes were well documented long before Bush |
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SkyDaddy7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 08:45 AM Response to Reply #6 |
24. "Asshole had it coming just for Lockerbie alone" |
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whatchamacallit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 04:00 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. No we just provided him with the chem weapons and encouraged him |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. he was not a good guy, but they gilded the lily in other ways too, like the claim that he was |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Gaddafi hasn't exactly been hiding under a barrel. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
4. His death was a bit brutal, but it wasn't terribly drawn out. |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I don't agree with your "asshole" argument. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 03:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. The man is NOT a US citizen. He has no "rights" under our Constitution. |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Your post reinforces my analogy. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Well, no, it doesn't. Not in the slightest. You went on about the First Amendment. |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 10:11 PM Original message |
dupe |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. You and I have different understandings of the concept of "analogy." |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:21 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Well, here is my understanding of the term |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
9. Mussolini is a good comparison |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
10. It is well documented throughout history that brutal dictators mostly |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
12. There are clear differences. |
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AngkorWot (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
16. Obama's the president and it's a foreign policy success for him. |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
20. I don't have the heart to even care, because I remember my friend's death |
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great white snark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 03:02 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. My condolences frazzled. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 07:04 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Wow, what a tragic story, I'm so sorry to hear that. :( |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
25. Considering we didn't kill him, I have to wonder. |
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