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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:11 PM
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I'm trying to think of war as entertainment. I really am.
I mean, as I understand it, we have a movie, a tv series, and a cartoon movie in the works. Somehow, I think I'll avoid all of them. My heart just isn't into death and killing.
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:14 PM
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1. That's exactly what Bush wants you to do. It's just a game for him.
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politicaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:16 PM
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2. I suppose the movie isn't like Catch 22, and the tv show like M*A*S*H*...
at least the cartoon will be a little more realistic when the terrorists start shooting lasers out of their eyes and begin building the "Giant Infidel Crushing Robot".
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:52 PM
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6. The cartoon is apparently a Disney film.
:grr: The kind you'll take your small children to in order to brainwash them so that they'll sign up when they're older. You know, after they've been pursued by the enlisters startging from their middle school years. :grr:
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:26 PM
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3. Then our troops should be paid like entertainers, somewhere
between major league baseball minimum and movie star, with the same amount of time off.
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:54 PM
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7. Our troops should be brought home.
We don't need to be in Iraq and the Iraqis don't need us there either.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 05:45 PM
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8. Works for me, I was just running with the entertainment idea. n/t
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:31 PM
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4. I think it's jumped the shark, time to cancel
The war was a lot more entertaining when it wasn't too dangerous to have embedded reporters, you had night photos of building going kablooey, Saddam in his spidey hole.....

The execs who put decided to keep this show for another season show really questionable judgment.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:42 PM
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5. You can't because you have your sense of humanity.
The VERY protected bastards who hold "the power" view all of us as mere objects to be spent.
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