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The Original Vune: It seems that people from Northern Ireland are the same as our American liberals; you are very good at decrying Bush's methods while failing to offer up an alternative. It is a well known fact that the Democratic party of this country failed miserably in the last elections for one main reason; while they are excellent whiners and criers about Bush's methods, they offer no alternatives. They are not leaders. At least the Repu

kingbee: Please see below a description of the Gulag: The Soviet system of forced labor camps was first established in 1919 under the Cheka, but it was not until the early 1930s that the camp population reached significant numbers. By 1934 the Gulag, or Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps, then under the Cheka's successor organization the NKVD, had several million inmates. Prisoners included murderers, thieves, and other commo