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The company of those who are actively seeking the truth is infinitely preferred to those who think they've already found it. -- Terry Pratchett
Fun fact of the day: Production of excrement by total human population of
the U.S. - 12,000 pounds/second.
It only hurts when I think.
"Better to screw an intern than to screw an entire country"
The Earth is our Mother. But who wants to live with your mother all your life?
Near death experience? Hell, I'm still waiting to have a near life experience.
So let me see if I have this straight: We invaded a country for whatever reason du jour (WMDs, Saddam an evil dictator, 9/11, terrorists, etc.), without the people at the top having the foreknowledge of the history of the area or the difference between various Muslim sects, took out the relatively secular (although admittedly dictator-based) government in favor of a far more Islamic (but democratically elected) government and continued to occupy said country, fighting in some cases FOR the Shia (being assisted by our sworn enemies, Iran) and against the insurgent Sunnis (that our allies, the Saudis, support). Have I got that right? Anyone else thinking that the people in charge do not know their ass from their elbow? Feel safer in that "War on Terror"? -- Crooksandliars.com 12/06/06
I have no intention of ever getting into a bastard sword duel in my street clothes. -- Vitus
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea." -- Mohandas Gandhi
"If you take away the right to say 'fuck,' then you take away the right to say 'fuck the government,' and maybe that's what all the rules are really about." -- Lenny Bruce
Cost of the war in Iraq:
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