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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-30-06 01:45 AM
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more from Jesus' General...this time on Feith
who as you might know was recently hired at Georgetown pissing off students and faculty alike. The man Tommy Franks called "the stupidest man on the faith of the earth" (and after reading Cobra II, Franks should know.)

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006_05_21_patriotboy_archive.html#114862534883951385

Here's part of the syllabus for the class he's teaching.

Fiction Driven Foreign Policy

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces students to the use of fiction to promote foreign policy initiatives. Students will study the latest methods for undermining reality-based analysis using fantasy, fiction, treachery, torture and ad hominem argumentation.

snip

# Successfully defend one of the following claims:
A) Ronald Reagan invented television
B) Ann Coulter is a woman
C) Intelligent Design is Science
D) We've turned the corner in Iraq

more at link (its funny cause its true)
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-30-06 02:00 AM
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1. Actually, it was "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth"
Edited on Tue May-30-06 02:03 AM by TomInTib
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/shapiro/2004-05-04-hype_x.htm

The latest manifestation of this is the juicy quote by Gen. Tommy Franks in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, in which Franks calls Feith "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth."


http://www.slate.com/id/2100899/
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neoblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-30-06 03:17 AM
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2. Another choice...

(a) Ronald Reagan caused the collapse of Soviet Union
...
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