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star4you
Thanks for stopping by, even if it was a mistake.  I was just a little mystified to get a comment with nothing in it -- not even an emoticom.  Maybe we're both having a bad day?

posted by notapoet on January 4, 2007 at 11:31 PM | link to this | reply

posted by star4sky5 on January 4, 2007 at 11:03 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks, SoloWriter
That was a nice succinct restatement of most of the points of my post.

posted by notapoet on January 3, 2007 at 11:44 PM | link to this | reply

And if fools don't rush in,
then fools don't continue to find themselves in situations where they don’t belong, and from which extrication is difficult, embarrassing, and costly.  When the cost is taking up our lives, then it is definitely the price of a fool.

posted by Jenasis on January 1, 2007 at 2:01 PM | link to this | reply

Greenfields
I think human beings have a built in gullibility gene that kicks in big time when convincing orators go to work on us.  Saddam Hussein is not the first, nor will he be the last tyrant to get away with much.  Even our own government is subject to being ridled by corruption and graft if we don't constantly make our elected representatives accountable to those who elected them.

posted by notapoet on December 31, 2006 at 11:43 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks Parnell and azfal50
I appreciate the kind words.  And Parnell, if it weren't for automatic spell check on my word processor I wouldn't spell very well either, especially on the comments where I never seem to be able to remember to use the damned thing. 

posted by notapoet on December 31, 2006 at 11:39 PM | link to this | reply

Yes
we can hope for peace but also live our personal lives in that way.  We expect the system to change and often forget that we are the system. Saddam Hussein  is one of us and  I often wonder why and how we allow oursleves to let phenomena like him and others happen to us.

posted by Greenfields on December 31, 2006 at 11:29 PM | link to this | reply

Err..
Sorry for my ineloquent spelling:)

posted by Antipodean on December 31, 2006 at 11:22 PM | link to this | reply

Notapoet
A great, elequently phrased, uncompromising post. I hope everybody reads it!

posted by Antipodean on December 31, 2006 at 11:17 PM | link to this | reply

Excellent thought provoking post. Happy new year .

posted by afzal50 on December 31, 2006 at 11:12 PM | link to this | reply