At 12:02 PM -0800 1/17/05, James A. Donald wrote:
After the unpleasant experience of nation bulding in Iraq, I
hope that for the next round, he will stick to nation
destruction.
Amen.
All we really needed was a quick fly-by and reformat, and let Allah sort
'em out, on a grand tour of the um, holy land. Next stop Syria, Iran, etc.
Oh, well. Dance with the statist girl who brung ya, and all that.
Rummy saw the wisdom of 's plan, but couldn't quite sell it to the
Generals-that-be. Tommy had only a small sip of the Kool-Aide, and
apparently, but tried to cut it with a whole *vat* full of tanker-piss...
Cheers,
RAH
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