Seriously, just sign-up on the website using your crap email, then use the email addresses they send shit from to sign them up for porn sites and other heavy spam receivers.

I sometimes wonder why anyone is getting mad at the lies being told by right-wingers anymore. We all know they are going to lie, no matter what; we know they are going to twist the truth (usually using the gravitational pull around Rush Limbaugh to do so); we know they are going to cater to the overly wealthy and the undereducated. I'm actually shocked something like this didn't come up sooner.

Seriously, if FTR has the power to command the military and authorize defense expenditure, I'd be just as worried as I currently am. How is a war started by someone who you didn't vote for, who a majority of Americans didn't vote for, who was placed in power through over-reaching assumptions of power by the judiciary after massive and widespread fraud even remotely a shared responsibility? I will grant that we as American's share responsibility for the region due to our use of oil, but that's hardly the same as starting and continuing to wage a poorly run war.

A majority of terrorists come from that patch of earth. A rich, autocratic ruling class severely limits the freedoms of vast swathes of the country and the wealth of one of the richest oil producing regions is held high above the heads of the common Saudi, causing great resentment and strife which opportunistic radical clerics use to cajole and influence religious faith into violence and hatred. Compound this with long standing interference in the region by the US, first in arming Iraq and Afghanistan against Iran and the USSR, and now arming Saudi Arabia against Iraq and Iran, and Israel against everybody.

FTR's thought incomplete? Yes, but baseless, no. Saudi Arabia has a great deal of unaccounted culpability in this mess, as do we.

Which, um, are a direct result, according to the US's own national intelligence estimate, of the invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia.

Fifty percent of the Oklahoma City bombers were from New York... New York must be a terrible place. Moreover, would you mind citing some evidence for Bin Laden being a member of the royal family? I may be living under a rock, but I've never heard that one.

Oh, you're right. Us poor helpless Americans and our completely unaccountable government. If only we lived in a nice place like Brazil or Bolivia where the people are able to influence their government. I guess we just have too many resources to ever do anything...

You're right, Saudi Arabia's government is abhorrent and despotic, like I said. It logically follows that an abhorrent, despotic regime will be very unpopular. It also logically follows that the country propping up that government would also be seen quite unfavorably. Just keep in mind that I was responding to scorp's post that advocated attacking Saudi Arabia because 80% of the hijackers happened to be born there.

I'm sure this will be a roaring success like Fox's take on the Daily Show.

Best article you've done in a while FTR, I actually enjoyed it without any reservations.

They had a little more contact with Saudi Arabia than just being born there. But I expect that he was not seriously advocating attacking anyone. Merely pointing out that if one is looking to hit the terrorists and their suppliers, invading Saudi Arabia would accomplish that much better than Iraq. Probably not be successful. But would at least be remotely related, y'know?

Unfortunately, I'm afraid the days of the military being non-partison are long behind us (as are many concepts America used to take for granted, like the assumption that your government actually cares what you think). I keep telling myself that these trends are cyclical, and that one day we'll come full around back to a point where the government isn't actively trying to screw/scare/spy on its people, but who the hell knows.

Damn, and I thought this picture would never come in handy again:

I'm beginning to think that Bush is becoming a real "devotee" to his devout... I wonder what he'd look like with a big pile of limbs surrounding him from all the victims of the Iraq war? I'm sorry that that guy lost his legs, but that he's a real douche for trying to use his loss to try and influence others to keep supporting the war.. The whole concept is oddly perverse once you get past the knee jerk emotional response this add clearly was intended for: the horrors of war he's suffered... And that's why we need to keep fighting???

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Personally, I'd be fucking pissed at the President if I were him. Hell, I already am.

Giggle.

Seriously, though. Politicians, especially dumb ones from the bible belt, aren't very hip to Internet security. Someone hax0r their website and put something like "IM UP IN UR WEBSITEZ, CHANGIN UR PROPAGANDAZ," and we can all laugh about it.

Go Internet cavalry!

Victory in Iraq is only relevant as a tool to the already defined "Victory." A Bush-style victory is a strong Republican party informed by Evangelical Christianity, that controls all branches of the government and focuses all governmental powers under a strong-looking leader let's call him his "Dictatorship." Victory allows a weak and irrelevant Democrat party to make it seem that democracy actually exists in America. I say we are about 85% there. Hurrah!

I hate cold but Canada might beckon someday!