9/11, In my humble opinion

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[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]
:dubious:

And just how would you know what makes one platypus look hawt to another platypus?
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Who said anything what other platypuses thought? I happen to find platypuses to be a an extremely attractive and sexy creature. Maeglin just doesn’t have the right sexy curvy platypus forms. He’s just a scrawny little wanna-be platypus.

[QUOTE=Maeglin]
This may very well be true, but it does not invalidate my opinions on pretty much anything. Your opinion of polling, however, does.
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So you think polling and facts are the same. Right. Did I mention that you’re not a very intelligent platypus either.

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[QUOTE=spazurek]
I just want to say that I’m appalled and disgusted that anyone would even conceive of this, let alone voice it as though it represented a concensus.
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For my own part, I conceived it. At around 11am-ish on 9/11, I was ranting and raving “Nuke the fuck out of them! Get a big fat nuclear erasor and change all the fucking maps in the world! Afghanistan no longer exists!”

Of course, that was simply me expressing emotions at a very emotional time. I never seriously considered it or suggested it as viable foreign policy. Nor did anyone I know.

Oh, and Leaffan is a putz. In My Humble Opinion, anyone that voted for Bush the first time is a deluded moron. Anyone that voted for him a second time is an accessory to murder. Anyone that still supports him is as evil as Hitl – uh, Mussolini, and dumber than dirt. IMHO.

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[QUOTE=Rune]
So you think polling and facts are the same. Right.
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Word to the wise (and to you as well, I suppose) – by parading your opinion on polling, you are only advertising your own ignorance. Try reading up on it a bit before you proudly spout stupidity. Otherwise you just come off as a fool.

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In my opinion, most people on this message board aren’t going to care about my opinion. So I’m not going to waste their time with it.

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In My Humble Opinion, There was a turtle.

In My Humble Opinion, The Turtle laid an egg.

In My Humble Opinion, The egg is the Earth.

In My Humble Opinion, The egg is about to hatch.

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]
In My Humble Opinion, There was a turtle.

In My Humble Opinion, The Turtle laid an egg.

In My Humble Opinion, The egg is the Earth.

In My Humble Opinion, The egg is about to hatch.
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You have now officially pissed off the Illuminati. Please report to the nearest disintegration chamber at your earliest convenience.

Your friends,
-Some anonymous friend of yours we never heard of

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[QUOTE=tdn]
Word to the wise (and to you as well, I suppose) – by parading your opinion on polling, you are only advertising your own ignorance. Try reading up on it a bit before you proudly spout stupidity. Otherwise you just come off as a fool.
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Oh wow! Another stupid idiotic platypus. Two in the same thread! Who’d have thought such a thing would be possible. As for my opinion on polling in this thread. They are limited to saying a polls are not 100% accurate. You and Maeglin the Putz apparently disagree. I advise you start selling body parts, as it’s obvious you’re not going to survive on your wits.

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Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody’s got one.

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Endless war…the phrase makes me cold & sick inside.

I have a niece. Little Maggie is 4 this year. The thought that we might still be fighting in Iraq by the time she is in HS…!!!

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[QUOTE=Nancarrow]
Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody’s got one.
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Slight nitpic. tdn and Maeglin have a cloaca.

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[QUOTE=samclem]
IMHO, this belongs somewhere other than IMHO. BBQ Pit is where I’m putting it.

Moved. samclem
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Gee, Sam, I disagree with much of **Leaffan’s ** post, but why should he now be subject to insults and epithets because he stated his opinions and invited a similar response. He said nothing in his Op that was inflammatory, just unpopular. Seems like a very poor or at least unfair decision to move it on him.

Leaffan, what is the basis for your belief that Iraq was a major supporter of terrorism. Iran & Syria I would agree with, but not Iraq.
Why did Cheney & Rumsfeld rush the process to go to war when Colin Powell was trying to build a proper coalition?
Can you cite that most people were willing to use Nukes? I mean if we knew it was Bagdad that ordered 9/11 I would have agreed with you that day, but I think I was still in the minority.

Jim

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[QUOTE=Rune]
Oh wow! Another stupid idiotic platypus.
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What the fuck does that even mean?

Listen, Monsieur Dumas, if you’ve got some sort of credible argument that polling is inaccurate, put up. Otherwise, shut up.

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[QUOTE=Gary Kumquat]
Arguments? Arguments suggests that there’s some underlying logic or priniciple that the OP is trying to convey.

And as for this statement:

“In my humble opinion, all of us were extremely upset on Sept. 11/2001, and were willing to use nuclear weapons to retaliate.”

Fucking wonderful. Just who and what were you willing to nuke in retaliation for the slaughter of 3000 innocent people?

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This was probably the nadir of the lot. Speaking as someone who was actually there, I can do without his anger on my behalf. Neither I nor anyone else I know who breathed in the stink of jet fuel, plastic, steel, and bodies talked about nuclear retaliation.

If you are suggesting that the only things that are “facts” are proven deductively, then you are right, polls are not facts. You would be right, yet you would be even stupider than I had supposed. It is a good thing modern medicine does not submit to your definition of fact.

If you can reject the null hypothesis at the 95% level of confidence, is it a fact? If not, what is it?

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[QUOTE=Magiver]
Before Bush ever ran for President I was in favor of removing Saddam. The United States was a sitting duck in Saudi Arabia and it was becoming another Bosnia or Kosovo. As the World’s policeman we were permanently mired in an unstable region and we ended up paying for it.
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Thank God we’re no longer mired in an unstable region!

Sailboat

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[QUOTE=Nancarrow]
Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody’s got one.
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[sub]I haven’t.[/sub]

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[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, there is no conspiracy regarding the US government involvement in 9/11.
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They were warned about an attack, repeatedly. They were warned that an attack might involve planes, as well. At best, they were willfully ignorant.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, George W. Bush didn’t know about the hijacked planes.
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He’s a puppet and a moron; I doubt he knows much of anything. The planes could have been flown by the US military, and Bush wouldn’t have known, and still wouldn’t know.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, Iraq refused to comply with UN WMD inspections on a number of occasions.
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And when he finally did comply, we invaded. And people wonder why Iran isn’t cooperative.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, Saddam Hussein sanctioned the mass murder of Kurds under his regime.
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And our mass murders are somehow morally superior ?

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, Iraq was a breeding ground for terrorists.
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Lie, or delusion.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, the world will be a better place in years to come because of the proactive US stance on terrorism.
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We have no such stance. We are largely ignoring terrorism; Bush and friends are using it as an excuse for their own agenda, but they do very little to stop it, and much to encourage it. Then there’s our own terrorism to consider.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, all of us were extremely upset on Sept. 11/2001, and were willing to use nuclear weapons to retaliate. Now we’re upset because it’s taking a wee bit longer than anticipated.
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I wasn’t. And I’m upset in no small part because we aren’t even seriously trying to get the people who did it.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, George Bush is probably the exact right leader, at the exact right time in history.
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He’s scum and a fool, and he’s ruining the country and the world even faster than it was being ruined. He’s a lying, incompetent, Christocorporatefascist mass murdering moron. Anyone who supports him is evil or a fool.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, you can’t molly-coddle terrorists.
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Well, then Bush should stop.There’s a reason the CIA thinks Osama tried to help Bush get re-elected, you know. Bush might as well be an Al-Qaeda agent, given the way he behaves, and the way his actions benefit them.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, things are proceeding as they must, after 3,000 innocent lives were lost on one fine September 11 morning.
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I’m sure the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis we have murdered don’t matter to you at all.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, I wish he or she were right. But the world is a scary place and I thank the United States of America for having the fortitude to stand up to it.
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America has not. America is a nation of gutless, quivering, treacherous cowards, thieves and bullies.

[QUOTE=Leaffan]
In my humble opinion, I don’t give a shit.
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Of course not; as you are pro-Iraq war, you are an uncaring monster.

[QUOTE=Magiver]
There has been steady improvement in Iraq from day one so it’s far from a no-win situation.
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You have any evidence of that at all ? They are worse off than they were under Saddam.

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[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
He’s scum and a fool, and he’s ruining the country and the world even faster than it was being ruined. He’s a lying, incompetent, Christocorporatefascist mass murdering moron. Anyone who supports him is evil or a fool.
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You’ve got the beginnings of a good song going there.

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[QUOTE=Rune]
Slight nitpic. tdn and Maeglin have a cloaca.
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[QUOTE=Mangetout]
I haven’t.
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I suppose I ought to know better than to post an absolutist, and indeed uncited, claim in the Pit.

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Well Leaffan, for completelness shouldn’t you continue with:

In my humble opinion we should immediately attack Syria.

In my humble opinion we should immediately attack Saudi Arabia.

In my humble opinion we shoul dimmediately attack North Korea.

In my humble opinion we should immediately attack Iran.

I mean if you are serious about going after the places where terrorists get their support…

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[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus]
Well Leaffan, for completelness shouldn’t you continue with:

In my humble opinion we should immediately attack Syria.

In my humble opinion we should immediately attack Saudi Arabia.

In my humble opinion we shoul dimmediately attack North Korea.

In my humble opinion we should immediately attack Iran.

I mean if you are serious about going after the places where terrorists get their support…
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And, since we’re comparing the terrorists to the Nazis:

In my humble opinion we should carpet bomb every city in each of those countries until nothing is left standing and kill millions of innocent women and children. Because these guys are just like the Nazis, and that’s what we did to the Nazis.

Right, Leaffan? Or did you object to the way we dealt with the Nazis?