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		<title>By: Philadelphia Steve</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-161841</link>
		<dc:creator>Philadelphia Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regarding:
&quot;The Surge was not just an effort to bring in a lot more troops to walk the streets and man checkpoints. It was meant to clear or purge large areas of the Islamo Fascists so as to reduce the violence in and around Baghdad - where 80% of the violence was taking place. It is a very large operation where the Diyala campaign, called Arrowhead Ripper, is just one element:&quot;


Revelation!  The Insurgency must truly be on its last legs!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regarding:<br />
&#8220;The Surge was not just an effort to bring in a lot more troops to walk the streets and man checkpoints. It was meant to clear or purge large areas of the Islamo Fascists so as to reduce the violence in and around Baghdad &#8211; where 80% of the violence was taking place. It is a very large operation where the Diyala campaign, called Arrowhead Ripper, is just one element:&#8221;</p>
<p>Revelation!  The Insurgency must truly be on its last legs!</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160618</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Bozoer rebbe

Well, I don\â€™t deny Jews are a nation (within a nation) historically;
Napolean also noted this.&lt;/i&gt;

I never said the you did, but many, if not most, Muslims do. In Islam, Jews can only exist as subservient second class citizens, forced to pay head taxes to fund Muslim wars of aggression. 

However, I did notice that you avoided my main point, that far from not being nationalistic, AQ wants to establish a worldwide Muslim empire, where the Ummah, the Muslim nation, is sovereign.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Bozoer rebbe</p>
<p>Well, I don\â€™t deny Jews are a nation (within a nation) historically;<br />
Napolean also noted this.</i></p>
<p>I never said the you did, but many, if not most, Muslims do. In Islam, Jews can only exist as subservient second class citizens, forced to pay head taxes to fund Muslim wars of aggression. </p>
<p>However, I did notice that you avoided my main point, that far from not being nationalistic, AQ wants to establish a worldwide Muslim empire, where the Ummah, the Muslim nation, is sovereign.</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160617</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;And \â€outing\â€ my contactsâ€“yeah, such as you would love to
put the most plaintaive on the most dangerous missions, wouldn\â€™t you?&lt;/i&gt;

No, if I was a military commander, I&#039;d assign the most competent people regardless of their political beliefs (providing they were within the normal spectrum of US political ideologies). More to the point, without identifying your sources, you have no credibility.

Also, I wonder how those putative parents with &quot;kids&quot; in Iraq (I love how the left infantilizes our soldiers) would feel, if their sons or daughters were killed in action, God forbid, and you told them how their offspring were &quot;kayo&#039;d&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>And \â€outing\â€ my contactsâ€“yeah, such as you would love to<br />
put the most plaintaive on the most dangerous missions, wouldn\â€™t you?</i></p>
<p>No, if I was a military commander, I&#8217;d assign the most competent people regardless of their political beliefs (providing they were within the normal spectrum of US political ideologies). More to the point, without identifying your sources, you have no credibility.</p>
<p>Also, I wonder how those putative parents with &#8220;kids&#8221; in Iraq (I love how the left infantilizes our soldiers) would feel, if their sons or daughters were killed in action, God forbid, and you told them how their offspring were &#8220;kayo&#8217;d&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: thecentercannothold</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160184</link>
		<dc:creator>thecentercannothold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bozoer rebbe

Well, I don\&#039;t deny Jews are a nation (within a nation) historically;
Napolean also noted this.

&lt;i&gt;\&quot;Your casual dismissal of the loss of US soldiers (â€?kayosâ€?) shows that you revel in their deaths.\&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

Scrutinize Strata\&#039;s archives for the past few years. He\&#039;s so
casual about the losses he goes out of his way never to mention them specifically. As the Bushies forbade media from Dover, Rebbe,
hoping Americans wouldn\&#039;t notice.

And \&quot;outing\&quot; my contacts--yeah, such as you would love to
put the most plaintaive on the most dangerous missions, wouldn\&#039;t you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bozoer rebbe</p>
<p>Well, I don\&#8217;t deny Jews are a nation (within a nation) historically;<br />
Napolean also noted this.</p>
<p><i>\&#8221;Your casual dismissal of the loss of US soldiers (â€?kayosâ€?) shows that you revel in their deaths.\&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Scrutinize Strata\&#8217;s archives for the past few years. He\&#8217;s so<br />
casual about the losses he goes out of his way never to mention them specifically. As the Bushies forbade media from Dover, Rebbe,<br />
hoping Americans wouldn\&#8217;t notice.</p>
<p>And \&#8221;outing\&#8221; my contacts&#8211;yeah, such as you would love to<br />
put the most plaintaive on the most dangerous missions, wouldn\&#8217;t you?</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160169</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Additionally - al-Qaeda is not nationalistic.&lt;/i&gt;

Actually, they are uber nationalistic in that they seek to establish a worldwide caliphate under the hegemony of the Muslim &quot;ummah&quot;. Ummah is Arabic for &quot;nation&quot;. They are so nationalistic, that they claim the term ummah for themselves exclusively and deny that Jews (described in the Hebrew bible as an &quot;am&quot;, the Hebrew cognate of ummah) are a nation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Additionally &#8211; al-Qaeda is not nationalistic.</i></p>
<p>Actually, they are uber nationalistic in that they seek to establish a worldwide caliphate under the hegemony of the Muslim &#8220;ummah&#8221;. Ummah is Arabic for &#8220;nation&#8221;. They are so nationalistic, that they claim the term ummah for themselves exclusively and deny that Jews (described in the Hebrew bible as an &#8220;am&#8221;, the Hebrew cognate of ummah) are a nation.</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160168</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;(the traditional response to being double-crossed - think of Bush as Tony Soprano and Saddam as Paulie Walnuts)&lt;/i&gt;

Even your Sopranos analogy is off.  Paulie Walnuts never tried to whack Tony. Tony never double-crossed Paulie, though Paulie did feel unappreciated by the boss. The closest he came to betraying Tony was when he tried to curry favor with Carmine Sr., who hardly recognized him and Paulie slinked back to Tony.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>(the traditional response to being double-crossed &#8211; think of Bush as Tony Soprano and Saddam as Paulie Walnuts)</i></p>
<p>Even your Sopranos analogy is off.  Paulie Walnuts never tried to whack Tony. Tony never double-crossed Paulie, though Paulie did feel unappreciated by the boss. The closest he came to betraying Tony was when he tried to curry favor with Carmine Sr., who hardly recognized him and Paulie slinked back to Tony.</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160158</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Youâ€™re a political sociopath masquerading as a patriot, Dale-rat.
How you taking the last three dozen kayos of US troops? Ooops,
I answered my own question; sociopaths cannot feel regret.&lt;/i&gt;

Your casual dismissal of the loss of US soldiers (&quot;kayos&quot;) shows that you revel in their deaths.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Youâ€™re a political sociopath masquerading as a patriot, Dale-rat.<br />
How you taking the last three dozen kayos of US troops? Ooops,<br />
I answered my own question; sociopaths cannot feel regret.</i></p>
<p>Your casual dismissal of the loss of US soldiers (&#8220;kayos&#8221;) shows that you revel in their deaths.</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160157</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;voxampguy &lt;/i&gt;

It figures that you would get your facts wrong. Everyone knows that the Fender Bassman is the holy grail of amps. While the AC-30 is a great amp and a major part of the British invasion sound, the simple fact is that after Jimi got to London just about all the great Brit guitarists switched to Marshalls, which are based on the Bassman circuitry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>voxampguy </i></p>
<p>It figures that you would get your facts wrong. Everyone knows that the Fender Bassman is the holy grail of amps. While the AC-30 is a great amp and a major part of the British invasion sound, the simple fact is that after Jimi got to London just about all the great Brit guitarists switched to Marshalls, which are based on the Bassman circuitry.</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160154</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Mechanized brigades are great for invading and seizing ground. During a prolonged and ill-advised occupation, they are tin death traps, as the troopers well know.&lt;/i&gt;

And instead of recognizing the flexibility of US troop tactics in switching to less vulnerable to IED foot patrols, as the article you cited describes, you choose to ignore it. 

It&#039;s good that you weren&#039;t around in 1944, when Sherman tanks were true death traps going against the superior German tanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Mechanized brigades are great for invading and seizing ground. During a prolonged and ill-advised occupation, they are tin death traps, as the troopers well know.</i></p>
<p>And instead of recognizing the flexibility of US troop tactics in switching to less vulnerable to IED foot patrols, as the article you cited describes, you choose to ignore it. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s good that you weren&#8217;t around in 1944, when Sherman tanks were true death traps going against the superior German tanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160150</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;I think that it is possible that you donâ€™t even know what â€œfascismâ€ is, do you?....Corporately controlled governmentâ€¦that is the basis of Fascism. It is ok to have your own opinion, but not your own facts.&lt;/i&gt;

Don&#039;t quote the late Patrick Moynihan unless your own facts are factual. You have it exactly backwards. Fascism involves government controlled corporations. I.G. Farben, Krupp and other German corporation didn&#039;t quite tell the Nazis what to do. Actually, one of the reasons why Germany lost the war was precisely because the Nazis told the corporations what to do, instead of as in the US, where flexible entrepreneurs competed for military contracts. While Henry Kaiser figured out how to turn cargo hulls into escort carriers, Ford switched from passenger cars to building B-24 bombers at Willow Run, and Chrysler mass produced tanks at the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, Nazi planners assigned tank production to traditional German manufacturers of heavy equipment who were used to producing relatively low production numbers. Germany produced about 23,000 Panzer, Panther and Tiger variants. By comparison, the US produced about 90,000 tanks during WWII.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>I think that it is possible that you donâ€™t even know what â€œfascismâ€ is, do you?&#8230;.Corporately controlled governmentâ€¦that is the basis of Fascism. It is ok to have your own opinion, but not your own facts.</i></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t quote the late Patrick Moynihan unless your own facts are factual. You have it exactly backwards. Fascism involves government controlled corporations. I.G. Farben, Krupp and other German corporation didn&#8217;t quite tell the Nazis what to do. Actually, one of the reasons why Germany lost the war was precisely because the Nazis told the corporations what to do, instead of as in the US, where flexible entrepreneurs competed for military contracts. While Henry Kaiser figured out how to turn cargo hulls into escort carriers, Ford switched from passenger cars to building B-24 bombers at Willow Run, and Chrysler mass produced tanks at the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, Nazi planners assigned tank production to traditional German manufacturers of heavy equipment who were used to producing relatively low production numbers. Germany produced about 23,000 Panzer, Panther and Tiger variants. By comparison, the US produced about 90,000 tanks during WWII.</p>
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		<title>By: Bozoer Rebbe</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-160143</link>
		<dc:creator>Bozoer Rebbe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;I happen to know several parents whose kids stationed in Iraq openly say few Iraqis like them or want them there, say no Iraqs can be trusted and who express absolute puzzlement as to why they are there.&lt;/i&gt;

What are the families&#039; names? What service branches are their adult children (not &quot;kids&quot;) serving in?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>I happen to know several parents whose kids stationed in Iraq openly say few Iraqis like them or want them there, say no Iraqs can be trusted and who express absolute puzzlement as to why they are there.</i></p>
<p>What are the families&#8217; names? What service branches are their adult children (not &#8220;kids&#8221;) serving in?</p>
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		<title>By: DaleinAtlanta</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-5#comment-159322</link>
		<dc:creator>DaleinAtlanta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The debacle on the battlefield was quite enough to
send the support from 80% to 45% for â€œrightists.â€ 


Ah,...yeah, okay, keep believing it....chirp......chirp......chirp.....

More &quot;Zobee&quot; Polls, Nutbag?

Of cousre, won&#039;t get that Pun, because it&#039;s in Arabic, but that&#039;s okay, I couldn&#039;t expect any actual knowledge or experience out of an Anti-American, Pro-Jihadi, Anti-Semitic Nutbag, Leftist Loon, could I then?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The debacle on the battlefield was quite enough to<br />
send the support from 80% to 45% for â€œrightists.â€ </p>
<p>Ah,&#8230;yeah, okay, keep believing it&#8230;.chirp&#8230;&#8230;chirp&#8230;&#8230;chirp&#8230;..</p>
<p>More &#8220;Zobee&#8221; Polls, Nutbag?</p>
<p>Of cousre, won&#8217;t get that Pun, because it&#8217;s in Arabic, but that&#8217;s okay, I couldn&#8217;t expect any actual knowledge or experience out of an Anti-American, Pro-Jihadi, Anti-Semitic Nutbag, Leftist Loon, could I then?</p>
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		<title>By: thecentercannothold</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-4#comment-159290</link>
		<dc:creator>thecentercannothold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to admit a pollster would probably hang up on your 
crochety psycho ass  ,believing they misdialed and got a ward.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to admit a pollster would probably hang up on your<br />
crochety psycho ass  ,believing they misdialed and got a ward.</p>
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		<title>By: thecentercannothold</title>
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		<dc:creator>thecentercannothold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to admit a pollster would probably hang up on your 
crochety psycho ass  ,believing they has misdialed and got a ward.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to admit a pollster would probably hang up on your<br />
crochety psycho ass  ,believing they has misdialed and got a ward.</p>
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		<title>By: For Enforcement</title>
		<link>http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4087/comment-page-4#comment-159262</link>
		<dc:creator>For Enforcement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey centerbunghole

&lt;i&gt;Americans who identify themselves as on the conservative Right
have turned steadily agaisnt the Iraq Warâ€“with little help from me&lt;/i&gt;

baloney,  I&#039;m an American Conservative and I have not been, even for one minute, against the Iraq war.   Quit getting your poll results from  KOS.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey centerbunghole</p>
<p><i>Americans who identify themselves as on the conservative Right<br />
have turned steadily agaisnt the Iraq Warâ€“with little help from me</i></p>
<p>baloney,  I&#8217;m an American Conservative and I have not been, even for one minute, against the Iraq war.   Quit getting your poll results from  KOS.</p>
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