Is Westboro Baptist Church A "Hate Group"?

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  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    The voters think Obama is a muslim and born outside the USA.

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    I'm confused. If you aren't an advocate for the Iraq war......what are you arguing about? Unless Iraq was close to acquiring nukes - and an effective delivery system - the existence of a few barrels of chemical weapons hardly justifies the cost of the war to our country.
     
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    OK, I'll ask you the same question: was the Iraq war worth the cost to the US? If not, what are you arguing about?
     
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    To answer your question, this started out with me saying I don't understand how people could believe Saddam didn't have WMD's when we invaded. I didn't defend going to Iraq. I'm not pimping Bush. I'm not tearing down President Obama.

    jlprk took offense to what I said apparently, and proceeded to make up a bunch of crap and state his opinion as fact, which I've been disputing.

    I must have missed the vote on whether Saddam was hiding WMD's.

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  5. Denny Crane

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    My view is Saddam needed to be disarmed. He was. We didn't need to nation build. The Iraqis should have sorted things out for themselves.
     
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    Disarmed of what? He had nothing that could hurt us.

    This wasn't some gentlemen's debate over UN measures, which is the impression given in this thread. Bush killed many hundreds of thousands (2 million by a couple of estimates, the estimators apparently not infiltrated enough by Western intelligence) and operated several dozen torture factories.
     
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    The internetz is serious bizness, yo!

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    Yes.

    Same with the KKK, the New Black Panthers, and La Raza.

    Haters, all of them.
     
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    http://www.examiner.com/article/calif-limits-picketing-abilities-for-groups-like-westboro

    Basically taking away their right of free speech and right of assembly.

    http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/Bills/SB_661/20112012/

     
  10. magnifier661

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    I like how some people "Maris"; lol. Generalize that a church like this is like all Christian Churches. The myopic mentality in this forum baffles me sometimes.
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    That's good too. Got a question for you though. So why was he executed by his own people?
     

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