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Why can't we just let the Libyans fight it out (...and then make friends with the winners)
The Daily Mail ^ | March 20, 2011 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 03/20/2011 4:13:01 AM PDT by Scanian

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To: Sarah-bot

Idiot.


181 posted on 03/20/2011 7:45:52 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: wtc911

Dude, what is your major malfunction?


182 posted on 03/20/2011 7:47:08 AM PDT by Sarah-bot
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To: Sarah-bot
I don’t like being accused of fraud.

So who was it that you "called up one night"?

Where did you find the number?

Hmmm?

183 posted on 03/20/2011 7:50:26 AM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: Sarah-bot
I'd recommend you ask that question in a bar in norht Georgia at about 2:00 AM on Saturday night. Just kidding.

To me, I believe what Sherman did to Georgia and South Carolina may have hastened the end of the war and shown that the Confederate Army could no longer protected its people. But it was not a just war policy. Grant beat Lee's army in the field through constant battles of attrition. Dresden did not win WWII. The Russian horde, the British and Americans beat the damn Nazis. The air war made it possible by destroying strategic and tactical targets, not by slaughtering people in Dresden or Hamburg. I don't think any of the authorities on that war believe otherwise.

184 posted on 03/20/2011 7:50:56 AM PDT by elhombrelibre ("I'd rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party." Norman Podhoretz)
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To: humblegunner

One of the folks at Free Republic. I didn’t get his name, but he seemed to be a nice fellow.


185 posted on 03/20/2011 7:52:23 AM PDT by Sarah-bot
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To: Sarah-bot
One of the folks at Free Republic.

Just rang up the old home office, huh?

186 posted on 03/20/2011 7:54:51 AM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: elhombrelibre

So you don’t agree with Sherman’s method. The thing is that Sherman cared about his men and winning the war. He didn’t care about political correctness.


187 posted on 03/20/2011 7:55:35 AM PDT by Sarah-bot
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To: humblegunner

Dude, You can pay Free Republic, see. And I used that information to contact them. Instead of peeing in the wind why don’t you try to contact them yourself. You will see that it is possible. Like I said, I didn’t take the mans name. All I know is that he was a pretty decent person on the phone.


188 posted on 03/20/2011 8:00:23 AM PDT by Sarah-bot
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To: Sarah-bot
No malfunction here at all. Your repeated posts over days show that you think killing people is nothing but practice or training.

You are an idiot.

189 posted on 03/20/2011 8:05:50 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Sarah-bot

No, let them kill each other. Much smarter.


190 posted on 03/20/2011 8:05:57 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: mewzilla

So now what, we need a couple of school buses and a Lambo to get the job done. I chose the school buses for visibility on the way down and to save money over motor coaches.


191 posted on 03/20/2011 8:06:15 AM PDT by wita
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To: Sarah-bot
And I used that information to contact them.

My last donation confirmation contained no telephone contact info.

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So tell me where you got the phone number.

192 posted on 03/20/2011 8:06:30 AM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: wtc911

I think easy targets are practice. That is all I am saying. If you want to call the enemy people that is your choice.


193 posted on 03/20/2011 8:08:01 AM PDT by Sarah-bot
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To: Sarah-bot
I am trying to discuss effective and ethical war measures. I do not believe that avoiding the slaughter of civilians is undue care about political correctness.

Using the war methods you advocate fits well with the way the Germans made war on Belgium in WWI, the way the Nazis made war in WWII, the rape of Naking, and Genghis Khan. You're far too cavalier about slaughter and in the advocacy of it to be honest with you.

194 posted on 03/20/2011 8:10:12 AM PDT by elhombrelibre ("I'd rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party." Norman Podhoretz)
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To: humblegunner

Keep trying, If you want to contact them bad enough you will figure it out. I didn’t write down there number.


195 posted on 03/20/2011 8:10:18 AM PDT by Sarah-bot
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To: Sarah-bot

There is no right side in the Libyan civil war. It is a civil war between two violent radical factions that the US should take no part in settling.

Qaddafi on one side and Al Qaeda on the other, those are the choices.


196 posted on 03/20/2011 8:11:06 AM PDT by Eva
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To: elhombrelibre

We have to be honest about war. When war comes to are front porch we will all become caviler.


197 posted on 03/20/2011 8:13:07 AM PDT by Sarah-bot
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To: Sarah-bot
No, not genocide. I simply believe you have to do what Sherman did. Is that fair?

No.

198 posted on 03/20/2011 8:13:28 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline licharacteristics.ke that.)
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To: Allegra

Why not?


199 posted on 03/20/2011 8:14:43 AM PDT by Sarah-bot
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To: Sarah-bot
If you want to contact them bad enough you will figure it out.

I don't have to figure it out, chief. I know.

You can either demonstrate where you found a number to
"call" Free Republic or admit you are full of crap.

200 posted on 03/20/2011 8:15:38 AM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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