If Broccoli was the main export from Iraq...would we be involved in a war there?

[lib2DaBone]

..musings for a Sunday...:silly:

[underpants]

1. Choppin' Broccoli

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRW27fyvwCs

[Solly Mack]

2. Yes - because Bush would've said "They tried to feed broccoli to my Daddy!"

His father is known to not like broccoli.

[WinkyDink]

12. Excellent! (Heh. Never explain a punchline!)

[JackRiddler]

20. The broccoli thing was made up.

The background is that the elder Bush at the time was actually having some kind of a conflict with broccoli farmers, and the comment was his classy way of telling them to fuck off and die. Who knows if he actually dislikes broccoli.

[Solly Mack]

23. The conflict was that he banned broccoli on Air Force 1.

Growers sent him truckloads of the stuff and then he made this comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIKmp-Ualzg

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Only if there were broccolie powered SUVs.

[defendandprotect]

4. Oil -- can't conduct wars without it -- "national security issue" -- !!

and don't forget Drugs -- Afghanistan --

America just loves to sell drugs!!

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

5. Yeah, but Michelle would be leading the charge instead of Barack.

nt

[ZombieHorde]

6. I don't know, but if Iraq's main export was brussel sprouts, I would support the war there. nt

[wtmusic]

7. Our national security depends on a steady flow of broc nt

[Drale]

8. We probably would have nuked them

because as we all know Broccoli is the most evil of all the vegetables. :sarcasm:

[Snoutport]

9. why are you so down on broccoli?

stop your hatin' man. broccoli makes a fine soup.

[ixion]

10. No.

Just like we're not involved in Tibet, etc.

[doc03]

11. I happen to love broccoli and Brussels spouts n/t

[Forkboy]

13. The Jolly Green Giant started as a Navy Seal.

Not a lot of people know that.

[lib2DaBone]

15. ROFL..Him and Jesse Ventura..

[Jamastiene]

14. Well, possibly.

I mean, at least with Bush 1(father of that son of a bush we endured for 8 years), that would have been a possibility, because he hated broccoli.

With Bush 2 (son of a bush), it was possible too, because he could have claimed they were dealing in broccoli as a weapon of mass destruction and eating that would make his daddy wince.

I doubt it though. I'm sure it was possible, because of the poppy bush hating broccoli angle, but I doubt it.

[Anakin Skywalker]

16. No, because it is well known that George Bush the elder hates broccoli!

[RufusTFirefly]

17. Rhetorical question, right?

Besides, he gassed his own people!!
(OK, so he used gas supplied by us. But even so...)

[PufPuf23]

18. I like broccoli but if one doesn't....

broccolli exports are more dangerous than an ancient culture that has mighty fossil fuel deposits and a hostile theocracy at present because the Brits and USA fucked with a friendly ancient civilization that wanted and wants Democracy of the People more than any ideology or religion.

[A HERETIC I AM]

19. Early on, when the denials that we went onto Iraq for the oil were coming fast...

from the Bush administration, Someone said something to the effect (and I wish I could remember who said it)

"If a nation known around the world for its love of potato chips and french fries, and were in fact the one country in the world that ate more potatoes than any other country, invaded and occupied Oregon and Idaho, but denied up and down that they were there for the spuds, would we believe them?"

[slackmaster]

21. Broccoli is no laughing matter

[Marr]

22. I don't think we'd be occupying Iraq if there'd never been an oil embargo in the 70's.

That was a real shock to the system, and our foreign policy ever since has been based around preventing a repeat of that event.

[taterguy]

24. +1

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Bush I would. -nt