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HeraldSquare212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:48 PM
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"War! What the hell's it good for?"
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:50 PM
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1. Frankie Says
:shrug:
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:55 PM
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9. Hide Yourself!
i used to be a DJ too...
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:50 PM
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2. Absolutely nothing?
:shrug:
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Bright Eyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:52 PM
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5. Say it again!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:53 PM
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6. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
:o
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:54 PM
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8. Good God, yall!!
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:51 PM
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3. "War ... what is it good for ... absolutely nuthin'!"
It's my phone's ringtone.

My hubby always cracks up when it goes off in our little conservative town (the teens love it, though - they often start dancing to it).

But I digress .... my ringtone expresses exactly how I feel.
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:52 PM
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4. Say it again, y'all!
:)
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:53 PM
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7. Uh-oh ... now I'm dancing to it!
See ya' at the peace vigil on Friday on our local main street (I'm there every Friday from 4-5 P.M.)!

Just kiddin' - I know that you'll be there in spirit!

;-)
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:55 PM
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10. It's a great song!
Peace!
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 12:34 AM
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13. Peace (n/t)!
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HeraldSquare212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:57 PM
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11. Not for running for President!
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 12:03 AM
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12. having spent 10 years in refugee camps in SE Asia war is very good
for the refugee industry that sprouts up to try and clean up afterwards. Most people think that wars stop and the problems stop. They don't. Its incalculable. When you see 450 people line up to get into 747 it looks like a city with all of their bags and their kids its huge and thats just one 747. I loaded over 1000 747s filled with refugees.

And then there are the people left behind. Iraq now more than2 million refugees - bigger than alot of states. Ok ok somebody messes up on the IWR vote I understand no one is perfect. But at some point in the name of human decency you have to say "It was wrong and I was mistaken".

And if sometimes I go overboard in here its because I can still see the faces of all those whose lives were crushed and think of all those 747s. Its too much to even think of those left behind but I remember one guy in particular in Saigon 1978 I was one of the first Americans to go back and at night you wondered around alot I went to a house that had been converted in to a coffee shop. The owner spoke beautiful English. No electricity just candles. It was packed I figured the guy would clear $ 15 for the night. I asked him what he did before the war. He had a PHD in BioChemistry and was working on developing enhanced strains of rice to solve world hunger. He had so much dignity and I wondered what if he was the guy that would have invented something that doubled rice output and eliminated hunger. I just cannot continue with it.

Its too fucking unbearable and that is why I will never be able to support anyone that cannot stand up and say that the IWR was a mistake.
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JackORoses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 12:53 AM
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14. wasn't that Tolstoy's original title for 'War and Peace'?
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 12:59 AM
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15. kick
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 01:01 AM
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16. The Republican's Campaign Donations???
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