Foot in Mouth Disease
Quote of the Day: I refuse to bite myself in the foot!
I just live for things like these. And I am thankful that i have friends who are susceptible to saying stuff like that, in fact i prolly do once a while too.
But really, we have to bow before the master who is President George Bush...
No wonder the UN inspectors can't agree with PGB about whether Iraq has WMDs. He has been insisting on "New Cue Ler" weapons and "Ai Ruck" Now, neither of those exist as far as i know.
But of course they have an excuse and Donald Rumsfeld has more less explained it with his Unknown Unknowns speech. For those who don't know how it went, let me help you out.
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"As we know
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
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Ok, I hope you know what i am talking about now.
And on the topic of the War in Ai Ruck, the long list of bloopers has just gotten longer with the release of pictorial evidence of what numerous Ai Ruckee people have been complaining about: The abuse of prisoners by American Military Personnel. Now that it has come out, you no longer have to wonder why those 4 Halliburton employee's bodies were mutilated. Let me make it clear, I am not saying that what was done by the mob was right, but if something like that were done to your own people by foreign soldiers, how would you feel?
On the other hand, was there really any way to interrogate prisoners? I mean com'on, these prisoners were soldiers who might well have committed humongous instances of abuse or at least seen it so they would prolly be numb to it already. How else to persuade than to trade in a currency that is already understood by them? The sad thing is, EVERYONE is this sordid mess is wrong as far as I'm concerned.
As for how those pictures came into the hands of CBS, how do such sensational news/pictures normally find their way to the big news networks? God knows how much CBS paid for them. (If they were sent in by someone for no monetary consideration at all, I will correct this entry). And the fact that they have published them will further fuel the flames that had been flickering all along.
Be prepared for a roaring blaze of violence. All brought to your living room by your favourite news networks, at prime time.
I just live for things like these. And I am thankful that i have friends who are susceptible to saying stuff like that, in fact i prolly do once a while too.
But really, we have to bow before the master who is President George Bush...
No wonder the UN inspectors can't agree with PGB about whether Iraq has WMDs. He has been insisting on "New Cue Ler" weapons and "Ai Ruck" Now, neither of those exist as far as i know.
But of course they have an excuse and Donald Rumsfeld has more less explained it with his Unknown Unknowns speech. For those who don't know how it went, let me help you out.
--------
"As we know
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
--------
Ok, I hope you know what i am talking about now.
And on the topic of the War in Ai Ruck, the long list of bloopers has just gotten longer with the release of pictorial evidence of what numerous Ai Ruckee people have been complaining about: The abuse of prisoners by American Military Personnel. Now that it has come out, you no longer have to wonder why those 4 Halliburton employee's bodies were mutilated. Let me make it clear, I am not saying that what was done by the mob was right, but if something like that were done to your own people by foreign soldiers, how would you feel?
On the other hand, was there really any way to interrogate prisoners? I mean com'on, these prisoners were soldiers who might well have committed humongous instances of abuse or at least seen it so they would prolly be numb to it already. How else to persuade than to trade in a currency that is already understood by them? The sad thing is, EVERYONE is this sordid mess is wrong as far as I'm concerned.
As for how those pictures came into the hands of CBS, how do such sensational news/pictures normally find their way to the big news networks? God knows how much CBS paid for them. (If they were sent in by someone for no monetary consideration at all, I will correct this entry). And the fact that they have published them will further fuel the flames that had been flickering all along.
Be prepared for a roaring blaze of violence. All brought to your living room by your favourite news networks, at prime time.
posted by cokecat at 10:32 am
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