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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:18 AM
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Dear Tom Friedman: Let Me Get This Straight on Nuclear weapons
<snip> By Joi Tomme

Everyone in the world--North Korea, Iran, and China--should opt out of the bullying game of producing nuclear weapons except the USA. We get to keep on making nuclear weapons because it's our God-given right to be bullies.

How about EVERYONE stops making nuclear weapons?

Oh…I forgot. That would put the Carlyle Group out of business. That would mean Halliburton's subsidiary in the UK, Brown and Root, would have to stop poisoning the air with radiation fallout from their nuclear weapons plants.

So the only sensible global law is that the US gets to proliferate the manufacture of nuclear weapons all over the world because the US is the only country that has the right to defend itself against aggression.

Is that the plan, Mr. Friedman? Okay. I think I get it now.

According to your plan, the US can aggress against whomever it wants because the US has the right to make nuclear weapons. And, the US has the right to back any regime in the world because the US has nuclear weapons. At the same time the US has outlawed the manufacture of nuclear weapons by all countries except where the Carlyle group has its US-sponsored arms factories.

Nice plan, Mr. Friedman. The United States and its fascist leaders will force liberty, democracy and freedom on the world, because if the world doesn't comply with whatever the US calls liberty-democracy-freedom we'll threaten to nuke the shit out of them. And we'll be the only nation in the world to have the actual weaponry to back up the threat.

But that's being a despotic, totalitarian, oppressive, terrorist nation, Mr. Friedman.

I truly do get it now. Terrorism is okay as long as the United States is the terrorist.
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:21 AM
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1. i had never heard the term "hubris"
until this administration. the arrogance and disrespect is beyond comprehension.
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pk_du Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:23 AM
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2. Not to mention we are the only ones to have used them against an "enemy"
( ie Japanese civilian population)
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gumby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:56 AM
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3.  Friedman is such a tool
he should be listed at the local home improvement shop.
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 01:00 AM
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4. He forgot to mention: everyone except U.S. and Israel.
But since his last name is Friedman he won't say it.
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Colorado Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 01:14 PM
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5. Oh, brother. Do I have to spell it out? nt
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