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    Could this be made into the civil rights or anti-slavery movement of the early 21st century? My only concern is…
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    • I'm glad I read both of those, thanks. I'm always amazed that people don't find the phrases "crippling sanctions" and…
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    • Hear hear. It upsets me that this basic argument is cast as somehow an ossified fossil of "left" thinking. Or…
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    • Then how about a slightly more serious and sophisticated policy position on nuclear weaponry than: "Don't you dare build a…
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    • Fine, good propositions. But I think the existing US position rests on the following: Proposition 3: All options, including aerial…
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    • No, because maintaining the bluster means that you can't even have a sensible policy over a world where Nuclear weapons…
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    • And putting North Korea and Iran in the same or even adjacent categories is stretching things. Iran is not controlled…
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    • Mine? The great granddaddy of the vicious aggressors, the United Kingdom, of course 😀 I understand what you say, and…
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    • So Iran striving for a bomb (which still has not been established - it simply hasn't) isn't at all in…
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    • Get there quickly and secretly. Like Pakistan and India.
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    • Surely the outright snarling by Israel (possessor of 200 warheads)and the ramped up sabre-rattling by the US is probably cementing…
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    • Boo, your maths are wrong! McCain won 47% of the vote, this means that if one of twenty if his…
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    • Seconded. I live around the corner from this, it's quite inspirational really 🙂 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newington_Green_Unitarian_Church
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    • There is a slightly nauseating twist to what you say. Maybe Lieberman's reward is a million dollar salary for doing…
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    • Why would you see evidence that Obama has done those things? There seems to be plenty of public fandango, the…
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    • Booman, aren't there are two possibilities? Lieberman really wants to kill a public option stone dead. Therefore he wasn't straight…
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    • Hear hear! (as my own infantile Parliamentarians are prone to shout) I think you've done excellently on this topic Booman,…
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    • You're right that in a simple one-on-one negotiation (the central Market in Istanbul is a fine place to practice this)…
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    • We are at a stage where every committee of the US congress has or is about to pass a version…
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    • The will of the majority does usually get expressed in a democracy, but change has to happen through the legislative…
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