When a country abandons God. God then abandons the country.

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

 

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

You don't understand.. Iraq couldn't make its OPEC Quota so Kuwait and KSA picked up the slack.. When the war with Iran was over Kuwait demanded Saddam pay them.. Saudi Arabia forgave the debt.

 

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

You don't understand.. Iraq couldn't make its OPEC Quota so Kuwait and KSA picked up the slack.. When the war with Iran was over Kuwait demanded Saddam pay them.. Saudi Arabia forgave the debt.

Apparently I don't understand. Why would anyone give revenue from their oil to another country?

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

You don't understand.. Iraq couldn't make its OPEC Quota so Kuwait and KSA picked up the slack.. When the war with Iran was over Kuwait demanded Saddam pay them.. Saudi Arabia forgave the debt.

Apparently I don't understand. Why would anyone give revenue from their oil to another country?

Kuwait and KSA pumped extra to meet Iraq's quota. When it was over, Kuwait wanted Saddam to pay them back.. KSA wrote it off. Iraq was crippled by 20 years of war an sanctions BEFORE we invaded... and Iraq's reserves were in terrible shape from neglect.

 

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

You don't understand.. Iraq couldn't make its OPEC Quota so Kuwait and KSA picked up the slack.. When the war with Iran was over Kuwait demanded Saddam pay them.. Saudi Arabia forgave the debt.

Apparently I don't understand. Why would anyone give revenue from their oil to another country?

Kuwait and KSA pumped extra to meet Iraq's quota. When it was over, Kuwait wanted Saddam to pay them back.. KSA wrote it off. Iraq was crippled by 20 years of war an sanctions BEFORE we invaded... and Iraq's reserves were in terrible shape from neglect.

You still aren't making since. So what if Kuwait and KSA sold oil above their quota. Are you suggesting they gave Iraq the revenue from the oil they sold above their quota? Because if so, Iraq would not need to invade Kuwait because Iraq had Kuwait's money already. Who cares if Kuwait says we need our money back now. All Saddam had to say was fuck off I'm keeping it. He didn't need to invade Kuwait because he already had Kuwait's money.

Of course I am skeptical that any country would balance a quota by giving revenue from their oil to a country that under produced their quota.

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

You don't understand.. Iraq couldn't make its OPEC Quota so Kuwait and KSA picked up the slack.. When the war with Iran was over Kuwait demanded Saddam pay them.. Saudi Arabia forgave the debt.

Apparently I don't understand. Why would anyone give revenue from their oil to another country?

Kuwait and KSA pumped extra to meet Iraq's quota. When it was over, Kuwait wanted Saddam to pay them back.. KSA wrote it off. Iraq was crippled by 20 years of war an sanctions BEFORE we invaded... and Iraq's reserves were in terrible shape from neglect.

You still aren't making since. So what if Kuwait and KSA sold oil above their quota. Are you suggesting they gave Iraq the revenue from the oil they sold above their quota? Because if so, Iraq would not need to invade Kuwait because Iraq had Kuwait's money already. Who cares if Kuwait says we need our money back now. All Saddam had to say was fuck off I'm keeping it. He didn't need to invade Kuwait because he already had Kuwait's money.

Of course I am skeptical that any country would balance a quota by giving revenue from their oil to a country that under produced their quota.

Yes............. and, Kuwait continued to slant drill into the shared oilfield .. in the areas belonging to Iraq.

 

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

You don't understand.. Iraq couldn't make its OPEC Quota so Kuwait and KSA picked up the slack.. When the war with Iran was over Kuwait demanded Saddam pay them.. Saudi Arabia forgave the debt.

Apparently I don't understand. Why would anyone give revenue from their oil to another country?

Kuwait and KSA pumped extra to meet Iraq's quota. When it was over, Kuwait wanted Saddam to pay them back.. KSA wrote it off. Iraq was crippled by 20 years of war an sanctions BEFORE we invaded... and Iraq's reserves were in terrible shape from neglect.

You still aren't making since. So what if Kuwait and KSA sold oil above their quota. Are you suggesting they gave Iraq the revenue from the oil they sold above their quota? Because if so, Iraq would not need to invade Kuwait because Iraq had Kuwait's money already. Who cares if Kuwait says we need our money back now. All Saddam had to say was fuck off I'm keeping it. He didn't need to invade Kuwait because he already had Kuwait's money.

Of course I am skeptical that any country would balance a quota by giving revenue from their oil to a country that under produced their quota.

Yes............. and, Kuwait continued to slant drill into the shared oilfield .. in the areas belonging to Iraq.

I doubt very seriously that the bottom hole location of Kuwait's wells crossed the border. They may have been 1 foot inside the border but they would not have crossed the border. Companies drill right up to their lease boundary all the time. It's a common practice. It's called protecting one's correlative rights.

 

[Votto]

Hello everyone I'm new here and I'm interested in civilized discourse about our great nation

I do believe you are wrong about the great country/nation. As for belief in me it makes no difference as most of the christians are suedo christians.

I suedo agree

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

You don't understand.. Iraq couldn't make its OPEC Quota so Kuwait and KSA picked up the slack.. When the war with Iran was over Kuwait demanded Saddam pay them.. Saudi Arabia forgave the debt.

Apparently I don't understand. Why would anyone give revenue from their oil to another country?

Kuwait and KSA pumped extra to meet Iraq's quota. When it was over, Kuwait wanted Saddam to pay them back.. KSA wrote it off. Iraq was crippled by 20 years of war an sanctions BEFORE we invaded... and Iraq's reserves were in terrible shape from neglect.

You still aren't making since. So what if Kuwait and KSA sold oil above their quota. Are you suggesting they gave Iraq the revenue from the oil they sold above their quota? Because if so, Iraq would not need to invade Kuwait because Iraq had Kuwait's money already. Who cares if Kuwait says we need our money back now. All Saddam had to say was fuck off I'm keeping it. He didn't need to invade Kuwait because he already had Kuwait's money.

Of course I am skeptical that any country would balance a quota by giving revenue from their oil to a country that under produced their quota.

Yes............. and, Kuwait continued to slant drill into the shared oilfield .. in the areas belonging to Iraq.

I doubt very seriously that the bottom hole location of Kuwait's wells crossed the border. They may have been 1 foot inside the border but they would not have crossed the border. Companies drill right up to their lease boundary all the time. It's a common practice. It's called protecting one's correlative rights.

What do you mean bottom hole?

 

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?

Sure. It was a dispute over an oil field which extended across both countries and he had a ready made army that was funded - in part - by the US to fight Iran.

That and that Kuwait wouldn't forgive the OPEC quota debt Saddam incurred while fighting Iran.

Countries violate their quotas all the time in Opec.

You don't understand.. Iraq couldn't make its OPEC Quota so Kuwait and KSA picked up the slack.. When the war with Iran was over Kuwait demanded Saddam pay them.. Saudi Arabia forgave the debt.

Apparently I don't understand. Why would anyone give revenue from their oil to another country?

Kuwait and KSA pumped extra to meet Iraq's quota. When it was over, Kuwait wanted Saddam to pay them back.. KSA wrote it off. Iraq was crippled by 20 years of war an sanctions BEFORE we invaded... and Iraq's reserves were in terrible shape from neglect.

You still aren't making since. So what if Kuwait and KSA sold oil above their quota. Are you suggesting they gave Iraq the revenue from the oil they sold above their quota? Because if so, Iraq would not need to invade Kuwait because Iraq had Kuwait's money already. Who cares if Kuwait says we need our money back now. All Saddam had to say was fuck off I'm keeping it. He didn't need to invade Kuwait because he already had Kuwait's money.

Of course I am skeptical that any country would balance a quota by giving revenue from their oil to a country that under produced their quota.

Yes............. and, Kuwait continued to slant drill into the shared oilfield .. in the areas belonging to Iraq.

I doubt very seriously that the bottom hole location of Kuwait's wells crossed the border. They may have been 1 foot inside the border but they would not have crossed the border. Companies drill right up to their lease boundary all the time. It's a common practice. It's called protecting one's correlative rights.

What do you mean bottom hole?

Slant drilling or directional drilling will have a surface location and a bottom hole location. Directional drilling is the practice of accessing an underground oil or gas reserve by drilling in a non-vertical direction.

 

[hobelim]

if scripture is true

It is but you clearly don't understand it if you are going around condemning people to hell.

Ahem....As I have told you many times I am not condemning you or anyone to hell. Have you forgotten? I am telling you that because you violate the commands of God as a matter of religious devotion and desecrate the teachings of Jesus by worshiping and eating the lifeless work of human hands for spiritual life YOU ARE ALREADY IN HELL, not because I say so but because of what you say and openly admit to doing.

Your idiotic rationales for doing what you do at mass and inability to perceive the stupidity of it prove that you are under a curse, the death promised for your failure to conform to the will of God.

You have your reward already!

What a load of bollocks. Its always the same when religious republicans cannot justify the crazy religion they support. Our comes the obligatory threat of eternal fire.
Now you've extended it to doing gods commands without his authority and suggesting you know the appropriate punishment on gods behalf.
Who Do you think you are?
How arrogant of you to suggest you speak on behalf of your ghost?
You have nothing and never will. You're delusional.

lol.... Relax. I am being a sanctimonious prick on purpose. I am paying back these religious hypocrites in their own coin. Do you have any idea how much suffering they have caused throughout the ages? Should I coddle them? Pretend they are living according to the instruction in the bible when they obviously are not? Do you want these people to influence customs and laws to turn the world into a living hell based on their perverse views of life inspired by their inability to comprehend the simple hidden teaching in ancient hebrew children stories?

I am basing everything I said on what ding professes to believe, that the bible is the truth, the very word of God. Whether he exists or not he is a character in that book. As that character he says "do this, don't do that" and according to what is written ding is under the condemnation of that God for doing what God said to not do under penalty of death.

Remember these stories were written to educate children about the many types of personalities in this world, either clean or unclean. Every creature described in kosher law is a metaphor for a human archetype. Eat the flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate and you will defile and contaminate your mind and devolve into an unclean creature that cannot ruminate, think deeply.

Defy that instruction and you will lose your mind, your very soul. Have a go at trying to have a rational conversation with ding about his irrational beliefs that contradict his own holy book.

Maybe then you will realize that those fairy tales teach timeless truths about actual reality not because I am speaking for a ghost but because you will see and hear their insanity with your own eyes and ears, the consequence for failing to stand guard over the sanctity of their own mind.

I'm bookmarking this post.

Screw that.

Just go to confession and tell the priest to tell God for you just how sorry you are for your sins and then to prove your sincerity violate the law of God, sin some more, and get down on your knees and worship the lifeless work of human hands and then eat it for spiritual life.

Go ahead, Eat it. I'm sure that God will be very impressed

I am

Did you know that confessing one's sins has a practical benefit? One might even say it's a functional advantage.

lol... Confess sins that are not sinful and do that which is sinful?

Sure its a functional advantage to the church and state, getting people to confess their so called sins was an old fashioned way of gathering and weaponizing information before wiretaps.....

smarten up.

It would do you some good to speak your sins out loud to someone. It doesn't even have to be a priest. Just the act of speaking them out load will release the power it holds over you. I'm going to pray for you now.

Dear Lord, please help hobelim reach rock bottom as fast and as humanely as possible so that he may see the depths which he has fallen and repent like the prodigal son.

lol.... I do not sin. I always do exactly as God commands and so I dwell within the sanctuary of God. I never worship false gods, I never eat the vile and degrading flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate. I never worship the work of human hands, I never murder which is misleading others to defy the divine commands, I never pay homage to the devil; any species of serpent, never have eaten the flesh of anything that crawls on its belly, never eaten the flesh of teeming vermin who go down on all fours, I have never perjured myself in the name of God, never have spoken falsely about anybody, I eat the flesh and blood of Jesus daily, (the fruit of the tree of life), and so I have already risen from among the dead and have hold of eternal life. I have my reward already.

And there are a million ways to say FU. "I'll pray for you" is one of them. You want be to hit rock bottom? lol..What a guy! is that where you found your edible triune mangod? Fuck you back.

So take your phoney prayers and ram them up your snout. Your sins are as obvious as a white boulder in the middle of a plowed field, your prayers are meaningless. Your poison has no effect.

You will never understand me, never understand a word of what Jesus taught, and you will never see or hear from the living God for the rest of your miserable life in hell unless you learn to say;

Baruch Haba B'shem Adonai.

 

[ding]

I always do as God commands. ~ Jeffrey Dahmer

Me too. ~ David Berkowitz

Who doesn't? ~ Ted Kaczynski

 

[ding]

if scripture is true

It is but you clearly don't understand it if you are going around condemning people to hell.

Ahem....As I have told you many times I am not condemning you or anyone to hell. Have you forgotten? I am telling you that because you violate the commands of God as a matter of religious devotion and desecrate the teachings of Jesus by worshiping and eating the lifeless work of human hands for spiritual life YOU ARE ALREADY IN HELL, not because I say so but because of what you say and openly admit to doing.

Your idiotic rationales for doing what you do at mass and inability to perceive the stupidity of it prove that you are under a curse, the death promised for your failure to conform to the will of God.

You have your reward already!

What a load of bollocks. Its always the same when religious republicans cannot justify the crazy religion they support. Our comes the obligatory threat of eternal fire.
Now you've extended it to doing gods commands without his authority and suggesting you know the appropriate punishment on gods behalf.
Who Do you think you are?
How arrogant of you to suggest you speak on behalf of your ghost?
You have nothing and never will. You're delusional.

lol.... Relax. I am being a sanctimonious prick on purpose. I am paying back these religious hypocrites in their own coin. Do you have any idea how much suffering they have caused throughout the ages? Should I coddle them? Pretend they are living according to the instruction in the bible when they obviously are not? Do you want these people to influence customs and laws to turn the world into a living hell based on their perverse views of life inspired by their inability to comprehend the simple hidden teaching in ancient hebrew children stories?

I am basing everything I said on what ding professes to believe, that the bible is the truth, the very word of God. Whether he exists or not he is a character in that book. As that character he says "do this, don't do that" and according to what is written ding is under the condemnation of that God for doing what God said to not do under penalty of death.

Remember these stories were written to educate children about the many types of personalities in this world, either clean or unclean. Every creature described in kosher law is a metaphor for a human archetype. Eat the flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate and you will defile and contaminate your mind and devolve into an unclean creature that cannot ruminate, think deeply.

Defy that instruction and you will lose your mind, your very soul. Have a go at trying to have a rational conversation with ding about his irrational beliefs that contradict his own holy book.

Maybe then you will realize that those fairy tales teach timeless truths about actual reality not because I am speaking for a ghost but because you will see and hear their insanity with your own eyes and ears, the consequence for failing to stand guard over the sanctity of their own mind.

I'm bookmarking this post.

Screw that.

Just go to confession and tell the priest to tell God for you just how sorry you are for your sins and then to prove your sincerity violate the law of God, sin some more, and get down on your knees and worship the lifeless work of human hands and then eat it for spiritual life.

Go ahead, Eat it. I'm sure that God will be very impressed

I am

Did you know that confessing one's sins has a practical benefit? One might even say it's a functional advantage.

lol... Confess sins that are not sinful and do that which is sinful?

Sure its a functional advantage to the church and state, getting people to confess their so called sins was an old fashioned way of gathering and weaponizing information before wiretaps.....

smarten up.

It would do you some good to speak your sins out loud to someone. It doesn't even have to be a priest. Just the act of speaking them out load will release the power it holds over you. I'm going to pray for you now.

Dear Lord, please help hobelim reach rock bottom as fast and as humanely as possible so that he may see the depths which he has fallen and repent like the prodigal son.

lol.... I do not sin. I always do exactly as God commands and so I dwell within the sanctuary of God. I never worship false gods, I never eat the vile and degrading flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate. I never worship the work of human hands, I never murder which is misleading others to defy the divine commands, I never pay homage to the devil; any species of serpent, never have eaten the flesh of anything that crawls on its belly, never eaten the flesh of teeming vermin who go down on all fours, I have never perjured myself in the name of God, never have spoken falsely about anybody, I eat the flesh and blood of Jesus daily, (the fruit of the tree of life), and so I have already risen from among the dead and have hold of eternal life. I have my reward already.

And there are a million ways to say FU. "I'll pray for you" is one of them. You want be to hit rock bottom? lol..What a guy! is that where you found your edible triune mangod? Fuck you back.

So take your phoney prayers and ram them up your snout. Your sins are as obvious as a white boulder in the middle of a plowed field, your prayers are meaningless. Your poison has no effect.

You will never understand me, never understand a word of what Jesus taught, and you will never see or hear from the living God for the rest of your miserable life in hell unless you learn to say;

Baruch Haba B'shem Adonai.

It was a sincere prayer. Help me help you.

 

[Bernhard]

It is my belief that God is not a nationalist. His goal and interest is the welfare of mankind.

When in the past or present, a certain people believed God cares for them only, that was fallible people projecting their own limited understanding and mindset on God. It said more about them than about God.

 

[hobelim]

I always do as God commands. ~ Jeffrey Dahmer

Me too. ~ David Berkowitz

Who doesn't? ~ Ted Kaczynski

"I always do exactly as God commands" Jesus H. Christ (John 14:21)


"Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin, in fact, is lawlessness. But you know that Christ appeared to do away with sin, and in Him there is no sin. No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

My children, do not be misled: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the works of the devil.

Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: no one who does not do what is right is God's child, nor is anyone who does not love his brother." 1 John 3: 4-10

 

[hobelim]

if scripture is true

It is but you clearly don't understand it if you are going around condemning people to hell.

Ahem....As I have told you many times I am not condemning you or anyone to hell. Have you forgotten? I am telling you that because you violate the commands of God as a matter of religious devotion and desecrate the teachings of Jesus by worshiping and eating the lifeless work of human hands for spiritual life YOU ARE ALREADY IN HELL, not because I say so but because of what you say and openly admit to doing.

Your idiotic rationales for doing what you do at mass and inability to perceive the stupidity of it prove that you are under a curse, the death promised for your failure to conform to the will of God.

You have your reward already!

What a load of bollocks. Its always the same when religious republicans cannot justify the crazy religion they support. Our comes the obligatory threat of eternal fire.
Now you've extended it to doing gods commands without his authority and suggesting you know the appropriate punishment on gods behalf.
Who Do you think you are?
How arrogant of you to suggest you speak on behalf of your ghost?
You have nothing and never will. You're delusional.

lol.... Relax. I am being a sanctimonious prick on purpose. I am paying back these religious hypocrites in their own coin. Do you have any idea how much suffering they have caused throughout the ages? Should I coddle them? Pretend they are living according to the instruction in the bible when they obviously are not? Do you want these people to influence customs and laws to turn the world into a living hell based on their perverse views of life inspired by their inability to comprehend the simple hidden teaching in ancient hebrew children stories?

I am basing everything I said on what ding professes to believe, that the bible is the truth, the very word of God. Whether he exists or not he is a character in that book. As that character he says "do this, don't do that" and according to what is written ding is under the condemnation of that God for doing what God said to not do under penalty of death.

Remember these stories were written to educate children about the many types of personalities in this world, either clean or unclean. Every creature described in kosher law is a metaphor for a human archetype. Eat the flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate and you will defile and contaminate your mind and devolve into an unclean creature that cannot ruminate, think deeply.

Defy that instruction and you will lose your mind, your very soul. Have a go at trying to have a rational conversation with ding about his irrational beliefs that contradict his own holy book.

Maybe then you will realize that those fairy tales teach timeless truths about actual reality not because I am speaking for a ghost but because you will see and hear their insanity with your own eyes and ears, the consequence for failing to stand guard over the sanctity of their own mind.

I'm bookmarking this post.

Screw that.

Just go to confession and tell the priest to tell God for you just how sorry you are for your sins and then to prove your sincerity violate the law of God, sin some more, and get down on your knees and worship the lifeless work of human hands and then eat it for spiritual life.

Go ahead, Eat it. I'm sure that God will be very impressed

I am

Did you know that confessing one's sins has a practical benefit? One might even say it's a functional advantage.

lol... Confess sins that are not sinful and do that which is sinful?

Sure its a functional advantage to the church and state, getting people to confess their so called sins was an old fashioned way of gathering and weaponizing information before wiretaps.....

smarten up.

It would do you some good to speak your sins out loud to someone. It doesn't even have to be a priest. Just the act of speaking them out load will release the power it holds over you. I'm going to pray for you now.

Dear Lord, please help hobelim reach rock bottom as fast and as humanely as possible so that he may see the depths which he has fallen and repent like the prodigal son.

lol.... I do not sin. I always do exactly as God commands and so I dwell within the sanctuary of God. I never worship false gods, I never eat the vile and degrading flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate. I never worship the work of human hands, I never murder which is misleading others to defy the divine commands, I never pay homage to the devil; any species of serpent, never have eaten the flesh of anything that crawls on its belly, never eaten the flesh of teeming vermin who go down on all fours, I have never perjured myself in the name of God, never have spoken falsely about anybody, I eat the flesh and blood of Jesus daily, (the fruit of the tree of life), and so I have already risen from among the dead and have hold of eternal life. I have my reward already.

And there are a million ways to say FU. "I'll pray for you" is one of them. You want be to hit rock bottom? lol..What a guy! is that where you found your edible triune mangod? Fuck you back.

So take your phoney prayers and ram them up your snout. Your sins are as obvious as a white boulder in the middle of a plowed field, your prayers are meaningless. Your poison has no effect.

You will never understand me, never understand a word of what Jesus taught, and you will never see or hear from the living God for the rest of your miserable life in hell unless you learn to say;

Baruch Haba B'shem Adonai.

It was a sincere prayer. Help me help you.

lol...Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin...I'd rather be drawn and quartered.

You prayed for me to hit rock bottom so that becoming an idolator would seem like a step in the right direction. lol.

What a guy!

Is that what happened to you? You fucked up numbskull. In the hierarchy of hell the higher you climb the lower you get.

There is no bottom to the abyss for those like you who have been possessed by a self-negating multiplicity, eternally condemned by God, that is slowly disintegrating into nothingness.

If you ever wondered why you say "we" and "us" whenever I squeeze your head, now you know.

 

[ding]

I always do as God commands. ~ Jeffrey Dahmer

Me too. ~ David Berkowitz

Who doesn't? ~ Ted Kaczynski

"I always do exactly as God commands" Jesus H. Christ (John 14:21)


"Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin, in fact, is lawlessness. But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin. No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

My children, do be misled: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the works of the devil.

Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother." 1 John 3: 4-10

That's what what Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz and Ted Kaczynski said too.

 

[ding]

if scripture is true

It is but you clearly don't understand it if you are going around condemning people to hell.

Ahem....As I have told you many times I am not condemning you or anyone to hell. Have you forgotten? I am telling you that because you violate the commands of God as a matter of religious devotion and desecrate the teachings of Jesus by worshiping and eating the lifeless work of human hands for spiritual life YOU ARE ALREADY IN HELL, not because I say so but because of what you say and openly admit to doing.

Your idiotic rationales for doing what you do at mass and inability to perceive the stupidity of it prove that you are under a curse, the death promised for your failure to conform to the will of God.

You have your reward already!

What a load of bollocks. Its always the same when religious republicans cannot justify the crazy religion they support. Our comes the obligatory threat of eternal fire.
Now you've extended it to doing gods commands without his authority and suggesting you know the appropriate punishment on gods behalf.
Who Do you think you are?
How arrogant of you to suggest you speak on behalf of your ghost?
You have nothing and never will. You're delusional.

lol.... Relax. I am being a sanctimonious prick on purpose. I am paying back these religious hypocrites in their own coin. Do you have any idea how much suffering they have caused throughout the ages? Should I coddle them? Pretend they are living according to the instruction in the bible when they obviously are not? Do you want these people to influence customs and laws to turn the world into a living hell based on their perverse views of life inspired by their inability to comprehend the simple hidden teaching in ancient hebrew children stories?

I am basing everything I said on what ding professes to believe, that the bible is the truth, the very word of God. Whether he exists or not he is a character in that book. As that character he says "do this, don't do that" and according to what is written ding is under the condemnation of that God for doing what God said to not do under penalty of death.

Remember these stories were written to educate children about the many types of personalities in this world, either clean or unclean. Every creature described in kosher law is a metaphor for a human archetype. Eat the flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate and you will defile and contaminate your mind and devolve into an unclean creature that cannot ruminate, think deeply.

Defy that instruction and you will lose your mind, your very soul. Have a go at trying to have a rational conversation with ding about his irrational beliefs that contradict his own holy book.

Maybe then you will realize that those fairy tales teach timeless truths about actual reality not because I am speaking for a ghost but because you will see and hear their insanity with your own eyes and ears, the consequence for failing to stand guard over the sanctity of their own mind.

I'm bookmarking this post.

Screw that.

Just go to confession and tell the priest to tell God for you just how sorry you are for your sins and then to prove your sincerity violate the law of God, sin some more, and get down on your knees and worship the lifeless work of human hands and then eat it for spiritual life.

Go ahead, Eat it. I'm sure that God will be very impressed

I am

Did you know that confessing one's sins has a practical benefit? One might even say it's a functional advantage.

lol... Confess sins that are not sinful and do that which is sinful?

Sure its a functional advantage to the church and state, getting people to confess their so called sins was an old fashioned way of gathering and weaponizing information before wiretaps.....

smarten up.

It would do you some good to speak your sins out loud to someone. It doesn't even have to be a priest. Just the act of speaking them out load will release the power it holds over you. I'm going to pray for you now.

Dear Lord, please help hobelim reach rock bottom as fast and as humanely as possible so that he may see the depths which he has fallen and repent like the prodigal son.

lol.... I do not sin. I always do exactly as God commands and so I dwell within the sanctuary of God. I never worship false gods, I never eat the vile and degrading flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate. I never worship the work of human hands, I never murder which is misleading others to defy the divine commands, I never pay homage to the devil; any species of serpent, never have eaten the flesh of anything that crawls on its belly, never eaten the flesh of teeming vermin who go down on all fours, I have never perjured myself in the name of God, never have spoken falsely about anybody, I eat the flesh and blood of Jesus daily, (the fruit of the tree of life), and so I have already risen from among the dead and have hold of eternal life. I have my reward already.

And there are a million ways to say FU. "I'll pray for you" is one of them. You want be to hit rock bottom? lol..What a guy! is that where you found your edible triune mangod? Fuck you back.

So take your phoney prayers and ram them up your snout. Your sins are as obvious as a white boulder in the middle of a plowed field, your prayers are meaningless. Your poison has no effect.

You will never understand me, never understand a word of what Jesus taught, and you will never see or hear from the living God for the rest of your miserable life in hell unless you learn to say;

Baruch Haba B'shem Adonai.

It was a sincere prayer. Help me help you.

lol...Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin...I'd rather be drawn and quartered.

You prayed for me to hit rock bottom so that becoming an idolator would seem like a step in the right direction. lol.

What a guy!

Is that what happened to you? You fucked up numbskull. In the hierarchy of hell the higher you climb the lower you get. There is no bottom to the abyss.

I prayed for your soul, brother.