History's Garbage Dump - TANSTAAFL

In a message dated 6/28/05 22:19:36,****@**.net writes:
Hey, it was great to talk to you tonight, Yankee! (You will notice that you have moved up in the world from bein' a DamnYankee.)
How'd you feel about GW's speech? I felt it was fairly kickass (I took the walkman) and I particularly liked the little part about (and I'm paraphrasing here) no other country would be given the opportunity to attack the US on his watch. I'm hopin' that was a (final) warning for Iran.

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Ah ahm ahned to be given meah Yankee status.

Yeah, Ol' George is a kick-ass CIC.
I'm very much afraid that the only warning that would affect the current governments of many countries would be their capitol cities disappearing in a bright flash. And we'll never do that first. Some of these fucks are just crazy enough to not care about starting a nuke war. It's pretty clear that the 1973 Yom Kippur War was on the brink of going nuclear, and we almost got sucked into an exchange with the Soviets. Part of the history I've lived. Yuck.
The Taliban claim that they executed people from the Chinook crash is more proof that they don't care. We should just stage a mass execution of everybody at Gitmo wearing an orange jumpsuit, take photos, and pass 'em around. The traitors in Congress have made it clear to the world that anyone can kick us in the nuts and we'll feed 'em good food and give 'em creature comforts, and interrogate them less rigorously than the average mom questioning teenagers late for curfew.
-me