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		<title>By: TigerHawk</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2005/01/25/the-orange-revolution-goes-mesopotamian/#comment-35383</link>
		<dc:creator>TigerHawk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My co-blogger quoted John Podhoretz this morning, to wit:



&lt;em&gt;If white South Africans had refused to participate in that nation&#039;s first-ever free elections back in 1994, nobody on earth would have argued that their lack of participation invalidated the election results.&lt;/em&gt;



The argument that a Sunni boycott of next week&#039;s election renders them less legitimate in the eyes of anybody other than authoritarian Sunnis is &lt;em&gt;ridiculous&lt;/em&gt;.  Was the American presidential election of 1864 legitimate?  Of course it was, even though at the time most Democrats thought that it wasn&#039;t....


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My co-blogger quoted John Podhoretz this morning, to wit:</p>
<p><em>If white South Africans had refused to participate in that nation&#8217;s first-ever free elections back in 1994, nobody on earth would have argued that their lack of participation invalidated the election results.</em></p>
<p>The argument that a Sunni boycott of next week&#8217;s election renders them less legitimate in the eyes of anybody other than authoritarian Sunnis is <em>ridiculous</em>.  Was the American presidential election of 1864 legitimate?  Of course it was, even though at the time most Democrats thought that it wasn&#8217;t&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: notthisgirl</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2005/01/25/the-orange-revolution-goes-mesopotamian/#comment-35382</link>
		<dc:creator>notthisgirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think I&#039;ll turn Kos&#039; quote back in on itself - &lt;i&gt;&quot;Screw them&quot;&lt;/i&gt;.



Roger and you guys here - I firmly believe we will be standing on the right side of history.




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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I&#8217;ll turn Kos&#8217; quote back in on itself &#8211; <i>&#8220;Screw them&#8221;</i>.</p>
<p>Roger and you guys here &#8211; I firmly believe we will be standing on the right side of history.</p>
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		<title>By: Katherine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katherine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PS.  By ìthat stupidî I do not mean Iraqi peopleÖ.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PS.  By ìthat stupidî I do not mean Iraqi peopleÖ.</p>
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		<title>By: Katherine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katherine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rick,



Yes, there is no doubt that in the eyes of the Dems/MSM there will be enough election ìirregularitiesî to deem it invalid.  Why, if less than 99.96% of the voters turn out that will mean that the Iraqis really want the return of the Saddam, wonít it?  After all that was the margin that voted for him last time around, earning the Iraqi voters gushing adoration of the journalists all around the globe. Iraqis really, really loved the guy, didnít they?  No wonder they support their own brave &quot;Minutemen&quot; so much.



Are these people born that stupid or does it require special education to get there, you think?


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rick,</p>
<p>Yes, there is no doubt that in the eyes of the Dems/MSM there will be enough election ìirregularitiesî to deem it invalid.  Why, if less than 99.96% of the voters turn out that will mean that the Iraqis really want the return of the Saddam, wonít it?  After all that was the margin that voted for him last time around, earning the Iraqi voters gushing adoration of the journalists all around the globe. Iraqis really, really loved the guy, didnít they?  No wonder they support their own brave &#8220;Minutemen&#8221; so much.</p>
<p>Are these people born that stupid or does it require special education to get there, you think?</p>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seems the Donks actually believe that they haven&#039;t been nasty or aggressive enough (ho ho, that&#039;s rich!)to beat back those evil Republicans. They need to fight fire with fire and get &quot;the message&quot; out to the poor brainwashed red-state bumpkins.



They are clearly insane, and it is a joy to watch them furiously punching holes in the bottom of their boat.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems the Donks actually believe that they haven&#8217;t been nasty or aggressive enough (ho ho, that&#8217;s rich!)to beat back those evil Republicans. They need to fight fire with fire and get &#8220;the message&#8221; out to the poor brainwashed red-state bumpkins.</p>
<p>They are clearly insane, and it is a joy to watch them furiously punching holes in the bottom of their boat.</p>
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		<title>By: richard mcenroe</title>
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		<dc:creator>richard mcenroe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Well, I did send my camera.&quot;



Give me a lens, that&#039;s a stout-hearted lens

that will take photographs by the score!



Start me with ten, from a stout-hearted lens

and Iíll soon give you ten thousand more, Oh!



Photo by photo and stronger and stronger

truth grows as they come from the store!



Then__thereís nothing in the world can spin or say &quot;depends&quot;

When__stouthearted men__can take pictures lens by lens!



With apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II...




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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Well, I did send my camera.&#8221;</p>
<p>Give me a lens, that&#8217;s a stout-hearted lens</p>
<p>that will take photographs by the score!</p>
<p>Start me with ten, from a stout-hearted lens</p>
<p>and Iíll soon give you ten thousand more, Oh!</p>
<p>Photo by photo and stronger and stronger</p>
<p>truth grows as they come from the store!</p>
<p>Then__thereís nothing in the world can spin or say &#8220;depends&#8221;</p>
<p>When__stouthearted men__can take pictures lens by lens!</p>
<p>With apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: richard mcenroe</title>
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		<dc:creator>richard mcenroe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rick Ballard ó I predict a two-step.  The Democrats will at one and the same time condemn the elections as invalid and state that now that the Iraqis have had their election we must leave and cut off all material support.  Hey, it worked in &#039;72...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rick Ballard ó I predict a two-step.  The Democrats will at one and the same time condemn the elections as invalid and state that now that the Iraqis have had their election we must leave and cut off all material support.  Hey, it worked in &#8217;72&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Rick Ballard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick Ballard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Katherine,



I doubt that the Dems are anywhere near the bottom yet. Watch how they will describe the Iraqi elections next week with their M$M propaganda arm leading the hallelujah chorus. The 5-6% that the M$M took from Bush allows them to continue to assert a status that will require at least two more elections to finally disprove. Why shouldn&#039;t the Zombiecrat Senators continue to spout losers rhetoric? They have no opposition within their own fiefs and Frist has not shown the requisite fortitude to quiet them as yet.



The bright side is that if they are silly enough to continue and if they are stupid enough to try and engage in a filibuster then I believe that Frist will find the backbone to force a rule change that allows the Reps to govern per their legitimate majority in the House and Senate.



February will be a very interesting month.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Katherine,</p>
<p>I doubt that the Dems are anywhere near the bottom yet. Watch how they will describe the Iraqi elections next week with their M$M propaganda arm leading the hallelujah chorus. The 5-6% that the M$M took from Bush allows them to continue to assert a status that will require at least two more elections to finally disprove. Why shouldn&#8217;t the Zombiecrat Senators continue to spout losers rhetoric? They have no opposition within their own fiefs and Frist has not shown the requisite fortitude to quiet them as yet.</p>
<p>The bright side is that if they are silly enough to continue and if they are stupid enough to try and engage in a filibuster then I believe that Frist will find the backbone to force a rule change that allows the Reps to govern per their legitimate majority in the House and Senate.</p>
<p>February will be a very interesting month.</p>
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		<title>By: Katherine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katherine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Richard,



ìA party who sends a Klansman to keep a black woman out of the State Department sure as hell has no substance.î



I have been following this one in total astonishment.  I know that the Dems truly believe in their press releases but this level of political tone-deafness is astounding.  After the election I was wondering whether a modicum of common sense would prevail among the Democratic leadership.  It doesnít seem to be happening; dropping Mikey Moore goes only that far and I am not even convinced that Democrats, as opposed to Hollywood, really dropped him.



I have not lost my interest yet; I admit that I watch with morbid fascination how low the Democrats can go. They never disappoint those days, do they?



One can almost start believing that they all become Zombies controlled by mind-rays by Karl Rove.


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Richard,</p>
<p>ìA party who sends a Klansman to keep a black woman out of the State Department sure as hell has no substance.î</p>
<p>I have been following this one in total astonishment.  I know that the Dems truly believe in their press releases but this level of political tone-deafness is astounding.  After the election I was wondering whether a modicum of common sense would prevail among the Democratic leadership.  It doesnít seem to be happening; dropping Mikey Moore goes only that far and I am not even convinced that Democrats, as opposed to Hollywood, really dropped him.</p>
<p>I have not lost my interest yet; I admit that I watch with morbid fascination how low the Democrats can go. They never disappoint those days, do they?</p>
<p>One can almost start believing that they all become Zombies controlled by mind-rays by Karl Rove.</p>
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		<title>By: BigFire</title>
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		<dc:creator>BigFire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of the oddest thing about the plane you shown is that it might belong to the notorious international air freight shipper (that&#039;s to put it mildly) Viktor Bout.  Bout build his post Soviet shipping empire out of precisely this kind of plane that flies everywhere, no questions ask regarding the cargo (which are frequently weapons going into arms embargo zones).  Currently he&#039;s wanted for arms smuggling in both EU &amp; United State jurstiction.



It&#039;s been suggested more than once that some of Bout&#039;s planes have been use for shipping large equipments into Iraq, though the evidence is kind of inconclusive.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the oddest thing about the plane you shown is that it might belong to the notorious international air freight shipper (that&#8217;s to put it mildly) Viktor Bout.  Bout build his post Soviet shipping empire out of precisely this kind of plane that flies everywhere, no questions ask regarding the cargo (which are frequently weapons going into arms embargo zones).  Currently he&#8217;s wanted for arms smuggling in both EU &amp; United State jurstiction.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been suggested more than once that some of Bout&#8217;s planes have been use for shipping large equipments into Iraq, though the evidence is kind of inconclusive.</p>
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