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Thanks, DamonLeigh,
I believe it may have been one of your postings that I read where I picked up that link before. Watch the money up, way up, and away, away from taxpayers and government fiscal responsibility! Away....Weee...Who needs all those old dollars anyway?
Those fucking bastards...
posted by
saul_relative
on January 10, 2005 at 3:06 PM
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Just to Reinforce...
...that last point, Saul, may I take the liberty of offering you and your readers a revealing little link that I throw in every now and then?
Check this outCheers!
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on January 10, 2005 at 11:09 AM
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oh, and scoop:
I didn't mention the fact that every American actually is invested in Iraq if they
pay taxes, but I thought that argument self-evident, except, after a couple of seconds, I realized that I may be helping install blinders on the already ignorant, so...
posted by
saul_relative
on January 10, 2005 at 4:45 AM
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hey, scoop,
don't stop writing. If you reach one or two people out there and open their eyes, then all your work will have been worth it. And, yes, it's true, that the uninvolved and the uninvested seem to be the most apathetic (having no emotional or financial or vocational ties to the war has its free set of blinders apparently). But it falls to people such as yourself (and myself) to guide the lost and uninformed, to show that everyone everywhere is somehow affected by anything that occurs anywhere (sort of a universal butterfly effect rule). We just have to work a little harder on the blind, self-absorbed, self-gratifier that lives next door.
posted by
saul_relative
on January 10, 2005 at 4:40 AM
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katray:
It is the mindless capitalist machine crushing across the world with "freedom" and "democracy" as its shining armor that so appeals to American self-appraisal. We'll ensure that every nation has the right to be free and hold populist elections if we have to obliterate their existing social structures to do it. Besides, it's god's will.
posted by
saul_relative
on January 10, 2005 at 4:32 AM
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Unfortunately, kingmi,
I missed that documentary, but I've seen hours and hours of documentary footage and read reams on the Viet Nam conflict. That particular phrase happens to be a favorite. Johnson was the prototypical bully trying to get what he wants by intimidation, perfectly captured in his own words.
posted by
saul_relative
on January 10, 2005 at 4:26 AM
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I am just totally disgusted with it and I am real
close to never writing about it again, seriously, most people I talk to that don't have a loved one over there, don't give a rats fuck about it.
posted by
scoop
on January 9, 2005 at 6:30 PM
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Excellent message Saul. This war is so globally tragic. But as long as the billions are rolling in for those out of the battle zones, the beat goes on...
posted by
Katray2
on January 9, 2005 at 5:35 PM
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saul relative, Did you see Robin McNeil Thursday night on PTV?
His documentary entitled "Do You Speak American?" was great. Showed the wax of LBJ drawling "If I get 'em by the short 'n' curlies, their hearts 'n' minds will follow!" Sad!
posted by
kingmi
on January 9, 2005 at 5:27 PM
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