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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:21 PM
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Poll question: Which is more Ironic AND just plain dumb sounding?
Edited on Thu Jun-09-05 04:22 PM by underpants
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:22 PM
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1. The more I think about it, the harder it is to decide
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:25 PM
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3. This struck me earlier in the week
The 3 question press conference-W talking about forgiving debt

Huh?

First, we are debt up to our eyeballs. Yes I know we hold lots of debt of other countries but...

Second, as in debt as we are why would we give up an asset?? Does that any business/financial sense* ..... oh yeah I forgot about the business "wizards" who are running the show.

*-of course I think that giving up African debt IS a good idea and the thing to do.
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comsymp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:32 PM
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6. And of course, there's the irony,
taking history into account, of considering Africa to be indebted to us.

Listening to this Admin is sometimes kinda like taking a glass of cold water in the face, ain't it?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 07:57 AM
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8. or a serious of jabs to the face
I swear that part of their strategery to keep the opposition at bay is to repeatedly make statements that cause us to say "Did he just say that?" "I can't believe he just said that" and while we are shaking our heads they move on to something else.
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:24 PM
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2. Fortunately, the OAS gave BushCo the smackdown....
on "overseeing democracy" Ha!!!

In your face, BushCo!!!

www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:26 PM
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4. I know. That was the part I was looking for
see post above
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Momgonepostal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:29 PM
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5. Maybe I'm a dummy, but why do we care if other countries are
...democratic? I get why we think other government torturing people is not a good thing (hey, that's ironic, too) but why should we care if they have a different form of government?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 07:55 AM
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7. US foreign policy since WWII
Before that we dabbled more than a bit in colonialism ( hmm ) but since then the standard that made us the good guys was/is that we want to give people the power of self governance and self determination. I know I know we haven't always really held ourselves up to that but that is what the banner reads anyway.
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