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Tue Feb-19-08 11:48 PM
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"War! What the hell's it good for?" |
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Tue Feb-19-08 11:55 PM
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Tue Feb-19-08 11:51 PM
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3. "War ... what is it good for ... absolutely nuthin'!" |
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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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Tue Feb-19-08 11:53 PM
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7. Uh-oh ... now I'm dancing to it! |
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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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Tue Feb-19-08 11:55 PM
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Wed Feb-20-08 12:34 AM
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Tue Feb-19-08 11:57 PM
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11. Not for running for President! |
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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 |
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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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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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16. The Republican's Campaign Donations??? |
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