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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain. (AP)
Last update - 11:52 20/05/2008
McCain blasts Obama for saying Iran poses lesser threat than Soviets
By The Associated Press
Tags: Iran, John Mccain, Israel 

Republican John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama of inexperience and reckless judgment for saying Iran does not pose the same serious threat to the United States as the Soviet Union did in its day.

The likely Republican presidential nominee made the criticism Monday in Chicago, Obama's home turf.

"Such a statement betrays the depth of Senator Obama's inexperience and reckless judgment. These are very serious deficiencies for an American president to possess," McCain said at the restaurant industry's annual meeting.
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He was referring to comments Obama made Sunday in Pendleton, Oregon: "Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, 'We're going to wipe you off the planet.'"

McCain's campaign on Monday distributed a video clip of Obama making the comments.

McCain listed the dangers he sees from Iran: "It provides deadly explosive devices used to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq, sponsors insurgents in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East and is committed to Israel's destruction. The threat the government of Iran poses is anything but tiny," McCain said.

Responding to McCain, Obama told a town hall rally later Monday in Billings, Montana, "Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat. But the Soviet Union posed an added threat, he said. The Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one."

Israel and the U.S., among other countries, believe that Iran is covertly pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

Obama said the threat from Iran had grown as a result of the U.S. war in Iraq. "Iran is the biggest single beneficiary of a war in Iraq that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged," he said. "And John McCain wants to double down that failed policy. If McCain is elected, Obama said, We'll keep talking tough in Washington, while countries like Iran ignore our tough talk."

The alternative, Obama said, is to follow the example of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who negotiated with the Soviet Union. Obama called for tough, disciplined and direct diplomacy.

"That's what Kennedy did; that's what Reagan did," he said.

Obama returned to the theme during a noisy rally before more than 7,000 backers in Bozeman, Montana.

"He and I are in a big argument right now because I said we should talk not just to our friends, but we should talk to our enemies," said Obama. "He wants to pursue the same failed policies of George Bush, talking tough and not getting anything done. We've got to change our foreign policy."

Although the Democratic primary race rolls on, McCain and Obama have criticized each other as if they are in the general election campaign. On Friday, Obama called McCain's foreign policy naive and irresponsible; McCain questioned whether Obama has the strength and judgment to be commander in chief.

At the heart of the dispute between the candidates is Obama's assertion that, as president, he would meet with leaders of these rogue countries without preconditions. Obama insists that direct engagement with the Soviets helped prevent nuclear war and, over time, helped to bring down the Berlin Wall.

McCain strongly disagrees with Obama's position; he argues such a meeting would lend international prestige to U.S. foes.

An unconditional summit meeting with the next American president would confer both international legitimacy on the Iranian president and could strengthen him domestically, when he is very unpopular among the Iranian people, McCain said.

Later Monday, McCain said it makes no sense that Obama would not negotiate with the Islamic terrorist group Hamas but would meet with Iran, a sponsor of Hamas.

"It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the issues we face, particularly in the Middle East," McCain told reporters in Savannah, Georgia.

In Chicago, McCain's remarks were interrupted for several moments by three protesters from the Code Pink anti-war group, one of whom yelled, "No war in Iran!" as she was hustled from the room.

McCain prefaced his speech to the National Restaurant Association with criticism of Obama but then focused mostly on economic issues. He said Obama and his Democratic rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would raise taxes and regulate businesses more than ever.

The Arizona senator has been trying to counter the allegation by Democrats that McCain would continue Bush administration policies.

Yet McCain's arguments on Monday - on tax cuts, trade agreements and farm subsidies - mirror those of President Bush.

McCain said letting the Bush tax cuts expire, as the Democrats would do, would raise taxes by a trillion dollars or more. And he said Obama was wrong to oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement, a pact that, though still controversial after more than a decade, resulted in an estimated $17 billion in exports from Illinois alone.

McCain said farm subsidy payments, like those in the farm bill Congress recently sent to Bush, are the biggest obstacle to global trade deals. Like McCain, Bush dislikes the bill and is threatening to veto it.

"Here we are at a time when food prices are at historic highs, and farm income is up by 56 percent in just the past two years," McCain said. "Yet even now, the Congress has voted to give billions of dollars in subsidies to some of the biggest and richest agribusiness corporations in America."

The Illinois Farm Bureau and other farm groups point out that high energy prices have driven up the costs farmers pay to produce their crops.

"Farmers are in the middle of planting the most expensive crop in history," Illinois Farm Bureau President Philip Nelson said last week.

Acknowledging he was in Obama territory, McCain said he agreed with Illinois Democrats that Obama is the right choice to be their senator.

"I couldn't agree more, and I promise to do everything in my power to help him finish his first term in the United States Senate," McCain quipped.



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      2.   Sorry it`s so... 09:21  |  Esther 20/05/08
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      4.   And all those Republicans are experienced 09:29  |  El-Birawi 20/05/08
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      6.   soviets more dangerous 09:45  |  PAUL PAVEL FELDMAN 20/05/08
      7.   Sheeple in Israel, and America...ENOUGH! 09:54  |  Goldstein 20/05/08
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      9.   #2, Esther,"Obama has now clinched his rookie status" 09:56  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/05/08
      10.   to Cipora 10:35  |  Anubhav 20/05/08
      11.   IT IS ABUDANTLY CLEAR OBAMA DOESNT KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS ABOUT 10:36  |  v hardman 20/05/08
      12.   "tiny McCain" said.... 10:39  |  Akiva P 20/05/08
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      15.   Bush Republicans are meeting with Iranians in Bahgdad 10:53  |  El-Birawi 20/05/08
      16.   #KA = Khales Amariyeh of Hebron and al-Jazeera 10:56  |  Yonatan 20/05/08
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      18.   #13 El-Birawi from "somewhere" 11:06  |  Yonatan 20/05/08
      19.   #10, Anubhav 11:27  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/05/08
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      21.   When I was young and Red..... 11:45  |  Keops 20/05/08
      22.   Yonatan. I do give a damn about American more than you do 11:46  |  El-Birawi 20/05/08
      23.   El Birawi and the morans - campaigning against the Jews 11:53  |  x-ray 20/05/08
      24.   #20, "kennedy had zero experience" 11:56  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/05/08
      25.   jarkata and Kennedy 12:03  |  Ruby 20/05/08
      26.   # 24, CIPORA 12:11  |  indrajaya 20/05/08
      27.   # 25, RUBY 12:19  |  indrajaya 20/05/08
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      29.   el Beer- "morAn" 12:36  |  ankhfnkhonsu 20/05/08
      30.   #22 El-Birawi re Yonatan 12:52  |  H 20/05/08
      31.   McCain blasts Obama 12:59  |  Hadas 20/05/08
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      33.   #17 Tali 13:23  |  Kapule David Mabuta 20/05/08
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      39.   A Game of Nuance 13:41  |  Ronnie Wolman 20/05/08
      40.   El B of the USA 13:50  |  x-ray 20/05/08
      41.   # 37, GIL 13:55  |  indrajaya 20/05/08
      42.   #28 El-Birawi - I forgot to add 13:55  |  Yonatan 20/05/08
      43.   Are you saying there are one billion Muslim terrorists 13:57  |  El-Birawi 20/05/08
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      45.   #32 Zekeria 14:06  |  Kapule David Mabuta 20/05/08
      46.   Obama is right 14:13  |  JOE 20/05/08
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      55.   # 44, YONATAN 14:32  |  indrajaya 20/05/08
      56.   Wolmans Memory falters and runs 14:34  |  Ramius 20/05/08
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      58.   #35 Mark B on His Hero 14:45  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      59.   McCain is like a character from Doctor Strangelove 14:47  |  Natallie Durson 20/05/08
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      62.   #49 Gil 15:00  |  North American 20/05/08
      63.   #43 El Birawi - Islamic terrorism has deep roots 15:09  |  Yonatan 20/05/08
      64.   Jewish folk 15:13  |  laddy 20/05/08
      65.   North American (not likely) - 62 15:18  |  ChanahS 20/05/08
      66.   #Brod 15:18  |  Kapule David Mabuta 20/05/08
      67.   North American 62 cont`d 15:20  |  ChanahS 20/05/08
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      71.   Ramius 15:27  |  CHGODMK 20/05/08
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      77.   us 15:46  |  laddy 20/05/08
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      79.   #71 SCHNOOKMK 15:51  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      80.   Dear Channah 62 15:53  |  North American 20/05/08
      81.   North American The only reason your troops are in Iraq 15:57  |  Gil 20/05/08
      82.   For those who can`t think objectively 16:06  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      83.   #70 Bob Dole Revisited 16:10  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      84.   #54 THE (unalphabet ) TEACHER/INSTRUCT 16:12  |  Imad 20/05/08
      85.   Ramius Uranus 16:23  |  CHGODMK 20/05/08
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      88.   #69 Koranic Desecrations 16:38  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      89.   Dear North American 16:38  |  Gil 20/05/08
      90.   Dear North American 16:39  |  Gil 20/05/08
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      92.   # 72 answer to El-Birawi 16:42  |  Abu Halil 20/05/08
      93.   Ronnie 16:44  |  CHGODMK 20/05/08
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      95.   The objective thinking of Tosefta 16:53  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 20/05/08
      96.   #85 Schnook from no where 16:54  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      97.   Is McCain off his meds? 17:17  |  W 20/05/08
      98.   Potential threat compared to real threat! 17:19  |  Roxana from IRAN 20/05/08
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      103.   # 96, RAMIUS 17:32  |  indrajaya 20/05/08
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      107.   Dear Gil #81 18:03  |  North American 20/05/08
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      109.   Objective thinking (Darth Zaider #95) 18:12  |  Tosefta 20/05/08
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      112.   #101 How many US Citizens and Hollow Men etc. 18:16  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      113.   North American (#107) ``The Jews are behind you`` 18:32  |  Gil 20/05/08
      114.   frenz 105-US more dangerous than both combined 18:36  |  examiner 20/05/08
      115.   # 91 Lynn. On US aid. Not as much as you like to think. 18:37  |  John Syracuse 20/05/08
      116.   #101 Peter SM 18:39  |  Cool B 20/05/08
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      119.   Cool B #94 18:49  |  Brod 20/05/08
      120.   He is willing to meet a Holocaust Denier 18:50  |  Liliane 20/05/08
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      123.   we all shall shine 19:12  |  roger wallace 20/05/08
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      125.   #51, Ronnie 19:14  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/05/08
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      127.   #106 Ramius in the North 19:24  |  Ari ben Yisrael 20/05/08
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      132.   #119 Brod 19:37  |  Cool B 20/05/08
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      134.   #127 Ari 19:39  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      135.   #115 John Syracuse....we aren`t selling anything 19:41  |  Lynn 20/05/08
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      137.   # 127, ARI BEN YISRAEL 19:47  |  indrajaya 20/05/08
      138.   #132 Cool B 19:48  |  Robert/Montreal 20/05/08
      139.   If the US economy goes further down, does not matter 19:55  |  jaffar 20/05/08
      140.   #125, Ronnie 19:56  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/05/08
      141.   Obama is going to win 19:58  |  tadchase 20/05/08
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      143.   #137 Little Inrajaness again has to munch on her Panama 20:05  |  Ramius 20/05/08
      144.   Cool B #132 20:08  |  Brod 20/05/08
      145.   #138 Robert/Montreal 20:21  |  Cool B 20/05/08
      146.   # 143, RAMIUS (ROMULUS) 20:23  |  indrajaya 20/05/08
      147.   MCAIN MEANS THREAT TO ISRAEL 20:25  |  sam i am 20/05/08
      148.   #144 Brod 20:28  |  Cool B 20/05/08
      149.   TO # 92 Abu Halil 20:29  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 20/05/08
      150.   # 34 Yonatan,Yonatan. To Whom Are You Trying To teach? 20:40  |  KATHY 20/05/08
      151.   McCain thinks Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei answers to Ahmedinijad 20:45  |  Pablo B 20/05/08
      152.   Mr. Obama, Kennedy and Reagan didn`t just talk 20:46  |  Nach 20/05/08
      153.   Iran, no threat at all in NE 20:56  |  Dav 20/05/08
      154.   Lynn #135 US Aid 20:57  |  John Syracuse 20/05/08
      155.   # 122 El Birawi..What has that To do With The Subject At hand? 20:59  |  KATHY 20/05/08
      156.   McCain is.. (words fail me!) 21:13  |  hollingsworth 20/05/08
      157.   Lynn `we aren`t selling` #135 21:27  |  John Syracuse 20/05/08
      158.   45# Kapula David Mabuta Obama is an ignorant fool and I will pt-1 21:40  |  Akram Zekaria 20/05/08
      159.   # 109 Tosefta and more on objective thinking 22:13  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 20/05/08
      160.   45# Kapula David Mabuta . 22:16  |  Akram Zekaria 20/05/08
      161.   Obama is for unity and peace 22:22  |  FRED CARUSO 20/05/08
      162.   McCAIN or McALZHEIMER`S ? 22:31  |  Arik Silverman 20/05/08
      163.   Hollingsworth #145 22:35  |  Brod 20/05/08
      164.   So spake Hollingsworth 22:40  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 20/05/08
      165.   El-Birawi - VOTE FOR MCCAIN 23:28  |  Steven 20/05/08
      166.   JOSEPH VISTE...YOU ARE BEING WATCHED 23:29  |  big brother 20/05/08
      167.   indrajaya,when you muslim bastards start respecting other 23:39  |  terrornator 20/05/08
      168.   # 98. Roxanna from Iran. 23:42  |  Stephen. 20/05/08
      169.   Scream as much as you like, this is a wrong track 23:54  |  Iranian-American 20/05/08
      170.   #Zekaria 00:03  |  Kapule David Mabuta 21/05/08
      171.   Brod/Hollingsworth USSR vs Iran 00:12  |  tadchase 21/05/08
      172.   roxana # 98 iran is a threat to their own people and to everyone 00:27  |  terrornator 21/05/08
      173.   Brod 00:38  |  hollingsworth 21/05/08
      174.   Lynn#146 00:44  |  John Syracuse 21/05/08
      175.   indrajaya HAARETZ DOES NOT ALLOW IT 00:56  |  Justin 21/05/08
      176.   McCain is absolutely correct... 00:57  |  Dennie 21/05/08
      177.   El-Birawi 01:01  |  rich 21/05/08
      178.   Brod #150 OTT. 01:03  |  examiner 21/05/08
      179.   Ramius 01:08  |  CHGODMK 21/05/08
      180.   Darth Zaider (Ed)#147 If I may? 01:10  |  examiner 21/05/08
      181.   Iran regime poses the same kind of threat as Nazi Germany 01:28  |  Democrat 21/05/08
      182.   Robert from Montreal on ZIonism 01:37  |  Ibrahim 21/05/08
      183.   Brod #150 OTT. 02:01  |  examiner 21/05/08
      184.   Darth Zaider (Ed)#147 If I may? 02:02  |  examiner 21/05/08
      185.   Haaretz.Apart form all My Jewish Brethren,A Treasure Is Ramius!!! 02:03  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      186.   Lynn #146 02:14  |  John Syracuse 21/05/08
      187.   Evaluate the past record 02:24  |  Mark Lincoln 21/05/08
      188.   Quick to the asylum 02:26  |  Mark Lincoln 21/05/08
      189.   # 146 John Syracuse....sorry, I missed that point 02:32  |  Lynn 21/05/08
      190.   Darth Zaider #158 03:06  |  Tosefta 21/05/08
      191.   to tadchase 03:19  |  hollingsworth 21/05/08
      192.   Evolve or die 03:24  |  evolution 21/05/08
      193.   For # 180 Examiner on Iran’s offer to be good 03:31  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 21/05/08
      194.   Evolve or die - part 2 03:37  |  evolution 21/05/08
      195.   # 84 Imad..|I am Bound to remind you that The Muslims Plagiarized 03:43  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      196.   # 79 Raimus...Oh dear What a good response:Kennedy`s grandpa: 03:53  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      197.   # 79 Ramius. an Addendum.Bushes Grandfather A Follower ofHitler.. 03:59  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      198.   Barack Obama spins his naivete as "wisdom". 04:04  |  Fortuna Benmayor 21/05/08
      199.   181 - nazi germany and iran the same? 04:09  |  sand 21/05/08
      200.   Hollingsworth #145 04:23  |  Brod 21/05/08
      201.   Darth Zaider #158 04:36  |  Tosefta 21/05/08
      202.   El-Birawi 04:39  |  RW 21/05/08
      203.   #160 Zekaria 04:58  |  Kapule David Mabuta 21/05/08
      204.   El-Birawi McCain is the one 05:05  |  Steven 21/05/08
      205.   Olmert is as bad as Obama is. Both are defeatists 05:19  |  Isaac Rubinstein 21/05/08
      206.   Slowman`s wisdom on skipping posts 05:38  |  Press Ass 21/05/08
      207.   #197 Naivete? 06:15  |  student of ME 21/05/08
      208.   El-Birawi – Bravo for giving credit to the Jews 06:21  |  RW 21/05/08
      209.   McCain; Loads of experience; screwing up... 06:22  |  Gray 21/05/08
      210.   WHY WOULD ANYONE BOTHER WITH MCCAIN? 06:31  |  FRITZ 21/05/08
      211.   202# Kapula David Mabuta :Obama will make Israel wake up 07:30  |  Akram Zekaria 21/05/08
      212.   Obama and Iran 07:54  |  Reid 21/05/08
      213.   Obama and Iran II 08:07  |  Reid 21/05/08
      214.   Brod - Cuban Missile Crisis? 08:12  |  Mark of Lewiston 21/05/08
      215.   Al Birawi - Main issue in US election - Gas 08:21  |  Reid 21/05/08
      216.   McCain is wrong 08:49  |  kevin 21/05/08
      217.   Gray #209 13:20  |  Brod 21/05/08
      218.   Mark of Lewiston #214 13:47  |  Brod 21/05/08
      219.   #218 Brod, on the soviet mindset.... 14:05  |  Johnboy 21/05/08
      220.   Johnboy #219 14:55  |  Brod 21/05/08
      221.   Irdrajaya #20 Kennedy and Experience 15:19  |  Brod 21/05/08
      222.   Indrajaya #69 McCain and Koran 15:25  |  Brod 21/05/08
      223.   #220 Brod makes A Bold Claim 15:46  |  Johnboy 21/05/08
      224.   # 192 &194 evolution..Exactly on point.And that is the trouble 15:56  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      225.   # 195 Imad..here is a list about the genius of the ancient greeks 16:32  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      226.   # 212 & # 213 Reid re: Obama.You Have Described The Man Called 16:57  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      227.   Kapule David Mabuta #66 20:24  |  Brod 21/05/08
      228.   TO # 155 KATHY 21:05  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 21/05/08
      229.   #223 Jb No Man You tot em up jb.And the Delusional is You! 21:49  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      230.   #183 examiner..Correction..Ahmed the Mad Threatened Israel 22:07  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      231.   # 203 Kapule David Mabuta--From Australia.How Reassuring,How 22:47  |  KATHY 21/05/08
      232.   TO 155 KATHY 22:56  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 21/05/08
      233.   # 228 & 232 THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT,..THANKS BROTHER.About Grant: 00:16  |  KATHY 22/05/08
      234.   TO ANY OF REMIUS POSTS:I THINK I KNOW WHO YOU MAY BE,AND.. 00:30  |  KATHY 22/05/08
      235.   # 179 CHGODMK...Is That Really You,or An Impostor? 00:41  |  KATHY 22/05/08
      236.   #229 Kathy is a laugh!!! 01:13  |  Johnboy 22/05/08
      237.   # 52 My Dear,dear ChanahS. Too Polite To That 01:33  |  KATHY 22/05/08
      238.   # 81 Gil,Gil dear Gil.He Is Not A North American!! 02:21  |  KATHY 22/05/08
      239.   # 92 Abu Halil...KUDOS FOR YOU INSISIVE RESPONSE TAHKS YOU FOR 02:37  |  Just me 22/05/08
      240.   203# Kapula David Mabuta. The world left too much on the Jewish 03:10  |  Akram Zekaria 22/05/08
      241.   TEA PARTY 03:24  |  MR FELDMAN 22/05/08
      242.   TEA PARTY 03:44  |  MR. FELDMAN/BOSTON 22/05/08
      243.   # 236 jb,,Back atcha` ya too jb.You live and learn. 04:23  |  KATHY 22/05/08
      244.   #236 JB No Kathy Is Not A Laugh.So Back atcha` ya too 04:47  |  KATHY(exhausted) 22/05/08
      245.   hear, hear, El Birawi 21:13  |  hollingsworth 22/05/08
      246.   #242 Say Mr. Feldman 22:14  |  ballistic 22/05/08
      247.   to ballistic 03:30  |  MR FELDMAN 23/05/08
      248.   El-Birawi, can you believe? I am a POPE of ROME. 23:28  |  POPE of ROME 12/07/08
      249.   el Beer- "morAn 23:38  |  Rodriguez 12/07/08
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