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The secret to my success is being so good, I'm bad. Gets 'em every time.

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"I would have done it sooner."

-Mitt Romney

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Good point ... we knew where Saddam was before we invaded, so what's the big deal about doing it the hard way?

Cheney could have just invited Saddam out for a bit of duck hunting, and we'd have saved a trillion or two.

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That's what happens when the 2012 erection season starts so damned early.

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I thought one of the bigger gripes against O'Bammer was that he DID commit our etc. Or am I just expecting a silly consistency?

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If they're bombing Texas/Oklahoma, I'll wave a sign that sez "Stop the bombing as soon as convenient!"

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To be fair, SOME of our countrymen are making big bucks from Afghani opium and heroin.

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Build a man a fire, he's warm for a night. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life.

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also in bamz's outbox: one dead terrorist who actually did attack the united states.

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<i>judged a success or failure based not on the collapse of the Qaddafi regime, but on the political order that emerges in its place</i>

yup. just like in iraq. and my money's on a more stable order emerging more quickly in libya precisely because they have to work it out for themselves (well, generally by themselves.)

and no one is disbanding their fucking bureaucracy.

at imperialist gunpoint.

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this is exactly the sentiment i was going to post.

we are such a loud nation with so little to say.

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i just did a pea soup spit take on my computer.

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