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Welcome back soly, we'll anxiously wait for your pictures.
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith
Whoa. Soly in Iraq!
Tell us everything!
I mean everything! Even the ugly part! Who cares about PG-13? Those kids can take it!![]()
Pleased to read that you're back safely, soly. I look forward to hearing your impressions.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
Good to hear you’re alive.
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Welcome back Soly, it's good to hear that you're OK.
"Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"
-Wise words from John Prescott
WB Soly; glad to have you back in one piece.
As to FoxNews: that is surprising. Do you mean it's on everywhere in the green zone, or everywhere else too? Is it the Iraqis that prefer FoxNews or the is it the Americans?
"I love this fellow God. He's so deliciously evil." --Stuart Griffin
Welcome back to the org soly, have a balloon!
Hurin: I'd think it's due to the connections between the Bush administration and Fox.
Student by day, bacon-eating narwhal by night (specifically midnight)
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We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
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More likely at the request of the troops. During the invasion British sailors and airmen requested that their news feed be changed from BBC to Sky because of the anti-war/defeatist tone of the BBC. And the soldiers on the front-line were also furious at the BBC for the same tone and style of reporting on the World Service, pretty much their only link with the outside world whilst the war was going on. I've read of SAS soldiers deep in Iraq in GW1 stopping what they were doing on Saturday evenings, pulling out their LW radios and getting the football comentary off the World ServiceOriginally Posted by Tiberius
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Sorry for the hi-jack, hope I haven't turned your thread into a debate on the reporting of the war Soly![]()
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
I heard in some places they actually destroyed the BBC provided television equipment.Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
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