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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 12:08 AM
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Is this, then, the Democratic plan to end the war?
Piss off the Turks with the Armenian resolution so that Turkey makes it difficult for us to reach Iraq through its air space, making it difficult to make war so we give up and go home?

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rusty quoin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 12:13 AM
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1. I don't understand this resolution.
I back Democrats, of course, but I think this is foolish.
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SergeyDovlatov Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 12:17 AM
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2. I am at loss too. I am not cynical enough to believe that this is ...
just a pissing contest.
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 12:22 AM
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5. Neither do I, which is why I wonder about different
reasons.

If we want to be mad at the Turks, look at what they are doing now, in Kurdistan.

The resolution by itself just shows how ineffective and irrelevant Congress is under Democratic majority, that the only achievement has to do with the Ottoman Empire that ceased to exist at the end of WWI.

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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 12:18 AM
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3. Yes! Brilliant! Author! nt
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 12:18 AM
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4. no but check out the great thread where 2000 active duty military leaders and
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