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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 01:15 PM
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Just another good reason to support Pakistan...
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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 01:28 PM
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1. "But deh's our friends in the war of terror!"
You know, our gov't should just admit to being an evil empire. I'm getting tired or eating sugary icing over crap.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 01:42 PM
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2. We have set ourselves up as the New Rome.
"I tell you the day Rome falls there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before!"
-Judah ben Hur
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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 01:46 PM
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3. It's such an open secret
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 02:26 PM
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4. kiciking
PUNT!
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 05:19 PM
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5. It says it's banned.
But still happens.

Sounds like many things in the US. Take a look at racism in the US when JFK was in office. What did it say about him?

On the other hand, Swabi's also in the NWFP, hardly the most progressive part of the country--still under the control of the central government, but with a lot of decentralization of power.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 05:21 PM
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6. I say we bomb the fuck out of them.
That'll learn em.
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