Hunter Thompson's words remain all too relevant

[Keseys Ghost]

"Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?"

"Nixon was a professional politician and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him."

"Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all."

"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear -- fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."

"If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years."

[paparush]

1. I raise a glass, and fire an imaginary .45 in Hunter's honor...

[dhill926]

3. ditto....

I raise the glass...fuck, I'll fire off a goddamn howitzer in his memory. One of the great ones.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. will this do?

[Gabi Hayes]

13. or this?

[Imagevision]

2. He hates music, football and sex in no particular order...

"Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers."
This pretty much summarizes George W, Bush.

[ThomWV]

4. Name the 5 Countrys. I Can't

Since 1966, 40 years ago:

Viet Nam tossed us out.

Iran tossed us out, but they had both a navy and an air force. Who were the other 4?

[NoPasaran]

6. For the sake of argument

Cambodia

Lebanon

Somalia

Iraq would be Number Five.

Of course, HST ignores our famous victory over Greneda!

[Gabi Hayes]

7. hey! we kicked Panama's ASS, too!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

9. in Kingdom of Fear he had a bit on Panama.

he said we had mass graves there for our victims of the invasion. very interesting little forgotten bit of colonialism there. he went in about a day after the invasion i believe.

[EFerrari]

8. Is he counting Cambodia and Laos? n/t

[sofa king]

18. My guess

Vietnam 1960s-1975
Cambodia (see the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Mayaguez">Mayaguez Incident), 1975
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/25/newsid_2503000/2503899.stm">Iran, 1980
Lebanon, 1982-1984
Iraq, 1990-forever

You can insert Somalia and remove any of the others you don't like.

[cain_7777]

5. One of our great writers of modern time

I salute you sir. To the ongoing memory of Hunter S. Thompson, thanks for all the good fuzzy memories.

"Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers." - Thompson

[SlavesandBulldozers]

10. "I piss down the throats of these Nazis"

God bless you Hunter, wherever you are. You shoulda stuck around to help us out you quitter bastard.

[BIgJohn83]

11. The good Dr. Knew what was going on...n/t

[blindpig]

14. Big Dark coming, soon.

He knew, and I can't help but think that influenced his decision to cash out.

[mcscajun]

15. He hates music???? Damn, but that really Does say it all

I've only heard of one other person I kinda knew who said she didn't like music. When she said that, I decided to give her a VERY Wide berth.

Nobody has to like all music, they're free to even hate some music and love others without reason, but to hate all music, you have to have NO Soul, No Lifeforce, No Passion at all. Ugh.

Figures he'd hate sex. I leave it to the sports nuts to bash him about hating football.

[LittleClarkie]

16. I also appreciated that he said in that article

that he would do whatever he could short of roaming the streets with a meat hammer to get his friend John Kerry elected. Quite the endorsement if you ask me.

Apparently John kept threatening to make Hunter his VP. Now THAT would have been a great ticket.

[Patsy Stone]

17. Kick!

and Rec. For Hunter...