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Well, appropriate if we were questioning whether to liberate Turkey from Iraqi occupation.
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its a decent analogy, except it does overlook the differences in the scope and magnitude of the two conflicts.
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too bad most of the stuff mentioned at that bartcop.com article didn't even happen. hell, half of it has an entry at snopes.com. i can't talk about anything at the SFGate article, because i make it a point not to read anything that comes from San Fransisco.
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quote:Originally posted by Tora Buttercup: You call this funny? History is happening all over again because we haven't learned anything and you think it's FUNNY?
My attempts to calm Tora down don't seem to have been effective. I predict 3 months before she steals a tank and proceeds to attack the White House.
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Besides, I am easy enough to find through that damn FBI database anyway....
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That'll be me in the AH-64 with the Hellfire antitank missiles, then.
Pop up, fire, drop down. Repeat until target is roughly the consistency of spaghetti sauce.
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Sure ya' would, Rob. It'd be okay, tho, the Secret Serice would shoot you down. "Damn, it's that nutty librarian with dreams of world conquest! Shoot him!"