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Hello,
Nicely said David.
I just wanted to show you guys what R. Wilson wrote after that whole thing.
WAR AGAINST SOME TERRORISTS
7 Ways of Looking at a Monkey-House
Just as the War Against Drugs would make some kind of sense if they honestly
called it a War Against Some Drugs, I regard Dubya's current Kampf as a War
Against Some Terrorists. I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs
CIA headquarters in Langtry.
I turned on CNN a few days ago and a White House robot announced that the
rebels in Chechnya "were" no longer freedom fighters but "are" now terrorists
with "clear" links to Osama bin Laden.
CNN provided no details about whether the transformation occured in a sudden
miraculous flash like the transubstantiation of the host in a Catholic mass,
or happened slowly and gradually like Darwinian evolution.
In a related bulletin, Russia pledged its support in the War Against Some
Terrorists, and will presumably start with those bastards in Chechnya.
The plight of Bill Maher reminds me of something Ezra Pound wrote about London
in 1919: "A single intelligent remark can destroy a man's entire career."
Hey MOQers:
>
>This is the statement that got Mahr in so much hot water....
>
>Bill: But also, we should --
>we have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away.
>That's cowardly.
>Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about
>it,
>it's not cowardly.
>You're right.
>
>And I think I can explain the reason that Bush called the terrorists
>cowards. The "thinking" goes something like this; Its very brave and noble
>to die for a cause, except when I don't like the cause. Its very brave and
>noble to die for your country, unless its a country I don't like. Its just
>for a warrior to kill his enemy, except when that enemy is me or my friends.
>Knowingly going to your death for a greater purpose is the supreme sacrifice
>a human can make, but why bother if you can afford high-tech remote weapons
>systems. (Sarcastic)
>
>Those terrorists were many things, including immoral murderous thugs and
>reactionary religious fanatics, but to call them cowards is positively
>idiotic.
>
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