Fair Tax

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Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba

SO what? Money is Money.

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So, if Bush were to sell Stinger Missiles to al-Queda elements you'd have no problem with that?

Hmm..

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Originally Posted by Omni

Can you justify this again, please?

You suck, btw.

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Oh cool another me to assnut.


yes I can.

The only way we as a nation are every going to have equal rights is to have everyone pay a flat tax. It should be somewhat lower than the middle class pays right now. This can be accomplished by reducing government spending on the top level and making a more conserted effort to increase jobs and pay rates for the lower class.


PS. Go to sleep

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Originally Posted by Melf

Spo: Have we caught Bin Laden? No. Didn't Bush himself say that he "wasn't a priority?" Didn't Bob Novak reveal that Rove and Libby leaked Plume's name? Stewart has nothing to do with it.

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Those are arguments based on semantics, because Bush was speaking in the context of neutralizing Al Qaeda's operational capability and Plume's name couldn't possibly have been "leaked" by anyone unless Wilson had already done so to the press (which he did in a sloppy attempt to discredit Bush). There's far more evidence that Hillary had Vincent Foster murdered, if you want to go down that road.

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Originally Posted by g0zen

So, if Bush were to sell Stinger Missiles to al-Queda elements you'd have no problem with that?

Hmm..

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He did (Bush Sr)

Of course I do, but that's not going to change the fact the Iran fly's F-15's. WE sell weapons, we sell food. It's a bitch of a life we live.

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Originally Posted by SpoDaddy

Those are arguments based on semantics, because Bush was speaking in the context of neutralizing Al Qaeda's operational capability and Plume's name couldn't possibly have been "leaked" by anyone unless Wilson had already done so to the press (which he did in a sloppy attempt to discredit Bush). There's far more evidence that Hillary had Vincent Foster murdered, if you want to go down that road.

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Quick, somebody call Dan Rather, oh, wait....

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Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba

The only way we as a nation are every going to have equal rights is to have everyone pay a flat tax.

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Equal rights? That was a bad answer.

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Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba

PS. Go to sleep

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I am.

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Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba

Gozen, the Byzantines say your wrong.

http://www.historyofjihad.org/byzantine.html

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Okay, couple of things:

1.) The Byzantines are not Western.

2.) The state-on-state violence between Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire cannot be tied to the ideology of al-Queda or the global jihad movement. In fact, the version of Islam preached in the Empire is still considered the most moderate and tolerant towards non-Muslims.

3.) Omitted from the article is how Byzantium's OTHER biggest enemy other than the Ottomans was Western Christendom, who considered the Orthodox Church as much a heresy as Islam.

My point is Jihads have been a part of Muslim history for 2000 years. They just found a new enemy (I know you knew that, you stinker you)

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Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba

He did (Bush Sr)

Of course I do, but that's not going to change the fact the Iran fly's F-15's. WE sell weapons, we sell food. It's a bitch of a life we live.

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Doublethink in action folks.

1984 reference aside.

You can't ascertain who's right and wrong by who sells weapons to whom.

We (the US) sold the Nazi's weapons in both WW'S, does that make us part of the atrocities that took place in Germany?

AQ was at one time the enemy of our enemy......

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Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba

My point is Jihads have been a part of Muslim history for 2000 years. They just found a new enemy (I know you knew that, you stinker you)

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It's not as simple as that. The concept of 'jihad' (struggle) has been part of Islam since the time of the Prophet and the Rightly Guided Caliphs. What has changed is how that struggle is intrepreted; whether it's the inner struggle a Muslim confronts in day-to-day life, self-defense from an aggressor, or the forceful conversion or killing of all non-Muslims. It has been intrepreted and reinterpreted numerous times, and the jury is still out on which way is most 'right'. The fact is that most practicing Muslims don't obsess over jihad, they are more concerned with following the five tenets of their faith. The radical anti-modern, anti-western view of violent jihad is expressed by a minority of the minority.