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cocoamix:
Call me crazy, but I'd want someone to have at least be a fucking veteran before he orders troops to war.
Someone who understands first hand the horrors of war.
Really they're not hard to find.
Looking among Rich Texas oil barons who went to Yale  is not a good place to find them.

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. "
-Douglas MacArthur

Calum:
true, also somebody who was a C student at Yale despite having his daddy's money behind him shouldn't be in charge of picking his own nose unsupervised, let alone given command of a nation, a country or the future of the planet.

flap:
While we're bashing Bush, this is quite funny: http://www.bushwatch.net/ourfearlessleader.mp3

He has balls alright. I would never have the courage to consistently make a fuckwit of myself in front of the whole world over and over again like he does.

xyle_one:

quote:Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:

Just to add fuel to the fire, Go to the BBC's website and in their search box, type the words "taliban" and "Texas", two words that you wouldn't think of using together all that much, and just see what the first item is in the results.
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thats great

 
quote: BBC News | West Asia | Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
  Thursday, December 4, 1997 Published at 19:27 GMT World: West Asia Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline The 1,300km pipeline will carry gas across ...
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/west_asi.../37021.stm
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speaking of Afghanistan & oil.. this is a snippet from an article with Gore Vidal
 
quote: What it was really about -- and you won't get this anywhere at the moment -- is that this is an imperial grab for energy resources. Until now, the Persian Gulf has been our main source for imported oil. We went there, to Afghanistan, not to get Osama and wreak our vengeance. We went to Afghanistan partly because the Taliban -- whom we had installed at the time of the Russian occupation -- were getting too flaky and because Unocal, the California corporation, had made a deal with the Taliban for a pipeline to get the Caspian-
area oil, which is the richest oil reserve on Earth. They wanted to get that oil by pipeline through Afghanistan to Pakistan to Karachi and from there to ship it off to China, which would be enormously profitable. Whichever big company could cash
in would make a fortune. And you'll see that all these companies go back to Bush or Cheney or
to Rumsfeld or someone else on the Gas and Oil Junta, which, along with the Pentagon, governs the United States.

We had planned to occupy Afghanistan in October, and Osama, or whoever it was who hit us in September, launched a pre-emptory strike. They knew we were coming. And this was a warning to throw us off guard.

With that background, it now becomes explicable why the first thing Bush did after we were hit was to get Senator Daschle and beg him not to hold an investigation of the sort any normal country would have done. When Pearl Harbor was struck, within 20 minutes the Senate and the House had a joint committee ready. Roosevelt beat them to it, because he knew why we had been hit, so he set up his own committee. But none of this was to come out, and it hasn't come out.  
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http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/33/features-cooper.php

[ January 30, 2003: Message edited by: ecsyle_one ]

Bazoukas:
And the stupid keep on becoming even more stupid from what I see and the crowd gathers around.

 Nice topic for the MES forum.   :rolleyes:

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