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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:35 PM
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America needs to plan for the next "enemy", I nominate Sweden.
We need an enemy to justify the funds needed to keep the Military/Industrial Complex swimming in profits. Haliburton is probably tired of dealing with Iraq. Also, it's about time we got around to wiping out a country with white, blue eyed people for the first time since the 1940s.
Since we are committed to attacking anyone who has a political or economic system that is "different" than ours lets get after Sweden. Their way of life is very un-American.

Oh, their economic ideas. What if some American tourist saw how they spend tax dollars on a National Health care program; and they educate everyone; and they take care of their elderly and handicapped. There could be chaos in America if people wanted those programs enough to cut military budgets to have the programs paid for.
What kind of ideas are those to share in a world that wants to have a dog-eat-dog system where everyone has to fend for themselves? Those durn Swedes probably don't even have bootstaps to pull themselves up by. Don't ya just hate to think that we might get so wimpy.
Let's get them before our military budget faces cuts. Let's get them while we are the strongest military on the planet. Grab your guns. Jump in a rowboat and storm their beaches to end the travesty they pose to the free world.
Anyone got a beer?
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:36 PM
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1. They can intern the bikini team at my house. n/t
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 02:36 PM
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41. You are one brave man...
it wouldn't take long till your eyes cross permanently.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 06:12 PM
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42. I will alternate eyes to avoid that. n/t
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 12:04 PM
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46. Betcha would never be able to keep just one open.
And besides, you'll probably go blind, too.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 05:05 PM
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51. You are probably right, but despite my age, I don't need Viagra
so I will not go blind.
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oblivious Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:40 PM
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2. Gotta have oil though. How about Norway?
Edited on Mon Jun-06-05 07:43 PM by oblivious
I think they're also the most generous foreign aid donor in terms of percentage of GNP. Bad. Bad Norway.
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:42 PM
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3. Screw the oil, they have "Codfish".
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:55 PM
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10. Ya! Let's go after Norway and Sweden
That's one way to ensure Minnesota stays blue.
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lady lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:42 PM
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4. Hey now, I have friends in Sweden
and besides, we have to keep it nice for when I flee the U.S.}(

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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:44 PM
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5. It will be better after we destroy it.
Just don't bomb the brewerys.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:46 PM
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6. Invade a good country, this time.
We need things like moderate temperatures, good housing, and utilities. I agree with universal health care and a free university education. I think we'd be better off with an English-speaking country this time. Sweden is nice, but it's still cold. Australia maybe?
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:49 PM
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7. "Australia"?
I am thinking they have a lot of desert and some mean-ass kangaroos down there. Sweden might be easier.
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GreenInNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:52 PM
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8. Finland
Edited on Mon Jun-06-05 07:54 PM by GreenInNC
I lived there for a while. If there was ever a country that needed to be bombed, Finland is the one.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:10 PM
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31. We can't afford them.
When I was in Finland, the money was flying out of my wallet. That was before the dollar dropped...
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aneerkoinos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:47 PM
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40. ELÄ PERKELE EDES UNISSAS!!! n/t
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:54 PM
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9. Germany
Edited on Mon Jun-06-05 07:54 PM by kedrys
For the simple reason that, according to a French bud of mine, the entire population f*cks off on 6 weeks' holiday in the middle of summer, leaving only biergarten waitresses and museum guards in lederhosen to defend the country. :D
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:20 PM
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19. "lederhosen"?
I'd be afraid of what the Germans might be packing under those lederhosen.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:59 PM
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11. EW! *LOL* They are SOOOO socialist-like!!!
Here's a :hug: from a fellow Scandinavian with a shameful link to those nasty Vikings *LOL*!!!
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 12:02 PM
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45. "socialist-like!!!"
Like, I like Socialist-like people. Like, I really do.
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:59 PM
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12. Don't even think about coming after Sverige!
First off, it's gonna be tough to take on Magnus Samuelson, he can just start flipping tanks over like some rowdy frat guys tipping a VW.

Then you have to deal with the nordac skilling/riflery skills of their winter bialthletes.

And, have you seen Princesses Madeleine and Victoria? What foxes! No FOX news spin could ever sell the American people on the need to overthrow those two vacker babes.

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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:02 PM
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14. But, but, if we whip them, 'WE GET TO KEEP THE WOMEN".
At least until my wife finds out. Then I'm toast.
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GreenInNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:37 PM
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21. Magnus
Why is it that every Swedish competitor in the strongest man competition is named Magnus?
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 12:13 PM
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48. not true - Torbjorn Samuelson
His older brother is Magnus, so the name was taken in his family.
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Jose Diablo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 05:38 PM
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52. Yah..Princess Victoria is a dish alright
Is there anyway to invade without destroying anything?
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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:00 PM
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13. Secretly rigged their own infrastructure with explosives
Edited on Mon Jun-06-05 08:03 PM by BrightKnight
They secretly rigged their own infrastructure with explosives during the cold war. The devious bastards sound like terrorists to me. You never really know where you stand with them. If they team up with the French we are done for.

A preemptive strike is the only solution.
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yella_dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:04 PM
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15. We attack Denmark and I'm in the recruiting station tomorrow.
I'll volunteer in advanced recon.


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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:08 PM
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16. I nominate Tierra Del Fuego
In the werds of Feerless Leeder:

"See, folks, it's strategeric... the al kayder is plottin to come in from our southernist borders... so the ferthurr southly we are, the lesser northage they can proseed. And we get to keep an eye on guy anna, which iz only just lesserly southbound than terra dell fungo!"

:evilgrin:
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:13 PM
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17. The Falkland Islands
For, ya know, strategeric sheep purposes. :D
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:23 PM
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20. "strategeric sheep purposes"
I am thinking you are one sick person. And, I like sick people.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 05:59 PM
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54. Yeah, and we'll come down and whup yo' ass like we did to Argentina
in 1983. Britain wants, needs and should have the Falklands because ...

because ...

...

I don't know
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:50 PM
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22. That sounds zactly like him when I reed it out loud! eom
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:15 PM
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33. "Tierra Del Fuego"
I don't think we want another country who's name we can't spell and our leaders can't find on a map. Of course, that means most countries with Republicans running the show.
They ain't never gonna find Tierra Del Fuego.
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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 11:30 PM
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35. good idea but we already own it
"...the cost of the acquisition is approximately US$5.7 million after closing adjustments and will be funded from existing working capital."

http://www.oilvoice.com/m/uploadDetail_public.asp?upload_ID=3195

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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:19 PM
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18. arent they the ones with the huge ass army, or was that switzerland?
my niece learned in her 6th grade fundie school switzerland has a huge ass army. i wonder,......where she got that from

so be aware. i dont know i would be taking them on
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:04 PM
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36. Sweden, Switzerland, does it really matter?
They might be planning on going nukular. Let's get everybody before they get us.
Who wants to push the button so we can nuke Christmas Island and Easter Island? They sound like phony secret bases to me.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:51 PM
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23. It'll never work. Swedes are white people
and you'll never get enough freepers to work up a serious hate on fellow white people to sustain the kind of knock-down, drag-out, atrocity-filled war they enjoy so much. You gotta have non-white enemies with odd clothes and a non-Christian religion -- not a bunch of blond Lutherans with nice sweaters.
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:11 PM
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32. freepers can hate anybody....
they just need an idiot to point them in the right direction.
Just look at how they've been treating the French, who by the way, (and I love reminding Republicans about this), THE FRENCH WERE RIGHT ABOUT IRAQ.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:57 PM
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24. Gee, what's wrong with Canada?
It's closer -- and they speak English (for the most part).

:evilgrin:

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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 09:12 PM
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25. That would be too much like invading Montana.
What would be the fun in that?
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 09:38 PM
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26. Who said anything about invading?
This was just about "enemies."
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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 09:43 PM
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27. liberators? we're just after their meatballs !!!
Edited on Mon Jun-06-05 09:43 PM by welshTerrier2
i can just hear bush at the press conference going on about Sweden being filled with "fee whores" ...

and little Scotty whispers to him through his hidden ear piece: "that's fjords mr. president" ...
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:09 PM
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37. fjords??
And Bush would ask."you mean the car company"? They have cars, too? Where do they put their skis?
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 09:44 PM
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28. Switzerland
They aren't "with us," so... :shrug:
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 09:45 PM
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29. i suggest war on cockroaches.
because, what's another impossible war?
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:05 PM
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30. Let's keep after the Swedes...
at some point we can claim Victory and Peace-With-Honor and go home.
We haven't done so well with the wars on racism, poverty, drugs, or terrorism. Cockroaches will really, really make us look inept.
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:18 PM
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34. Blame Sewden, invade NORWAY!
Who was it that said "invading Iraq because of 9/11 is like invading Mexico because we're angry at Fidel Castro?"
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aneerkoinos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:17 PM
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38. Not a good idea
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 01:18 PM by aneerkoinos
Sweden has WMD which they call Surströmning, a chemical weapon of fermented herring in tins.

Island has a similar WMD called Lutefisk (tr. 'smelly fish', a HUMONGOUS understatement), that's why Island don't need an army.
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jokerman93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:24 PM
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39. I believe the next enemy has already
I believe the next enemy has already been identified. It's a shadowy worldwide underground of loosely affiliated jihadists, atheists, free thinkers, pederasts, lesbians, sodomites, dissenters and terminally ill pot smokers.

They're calling it the "Universal Adversary".

saw a thread on it earlier, but can't find it now. Anybody?

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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 06:14 PM
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43. Can we boycott them first?
I'm going to start making "Freedom Pancakes" tomorrow. And I'm giving up Swedish porn, too. It's the supreme sacrifice, but America's worth it. So long, Seka!
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 06:23 PM
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44. no nomination needed "them" is us
- but likely the govt will put some other poor slob nations face on it to make it look 'righetous'-

i hate the joke that the United States of America has become-
but i love the people who share this continent (and world) with-
and the "ideal" that "America" was 'sposed to be- but is so very very far from, especially since the year 2000.
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 12:07 PM
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47. Sweden?! Are you friggin' crazy?!
It's bad enough that we had to invade a country that was like a blast furnace with IED's -- now you want to invade a freaking icebox?

Our Next Enemy: Bermuda
The New Axis of Evil: Bermuda, Arruba, and the swim-up bar at the Hyatt Regency in Cancun.

You have your marching orders. Attack!
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:06 PM
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55. Bermuda?
Can't go there, I look terrible in shorts.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 12:14 PM
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49. I nominate Canada
There's oil in Alberta, and I betcha they're hiding WMD in haystacks there, or maybe underneath or inside glaciers further north.

A lot of what you said about Sweden's government could also apply to Canada.

Of course, an army wintering there, it would be like Stalingrad all over again.
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:08 PM
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56. "it would be like Stalingrad all over again"
Does anyone in the current administration care if we go into a war we cannot win?
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 09:20 AM
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58. good point nt
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 01:01 PM
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50. Then lock me up as a Swedish Sympathizer and here is why...
Edited on Wed Jun-08-05 01:02 PM by Nailzberg



Crown Princess Victoria and Princess Madeleine.

(Happy B-Day on Friday, Princess Madeleine. Vacker, your highness. Vaaaaaacker.)
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:16 PM
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57. I was in Munich in May 1979 when Queen Sylvia arrived there...
so she could have her baby in her homeland.
The girls sure are beauties.
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johnaries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 05:42 PM
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53. But, according to Bush, Sweden doesn't have an Army.
"I don't know why you're talking about Sweden," Bush said. "They're the neutral one. They don't have an army."

Lantos paused, a little shocked, and offered a gentlemanly reply: "Mr. President, you may have thought that I said Switzerland. They're the ones that are historically neutral, without an army." Then Lantos mentioned, in a gracious aside, that the Swiss do have a tough national guard to protect the country in the event of invasion.

Bush held to his view. "No, no, it's Sweden that has no army."

The room went silent, until someone changed the subject.

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/incidents.shtml
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