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DaveJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 08:40 AM
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A little math fact, re: "fighting them where they live"
We know it's a flawed concept but look at the math.

The amount of inhabitable land on Earth (excluding Antarctica) is:
52,677,000 square miles

The size of Iraq is:
171,599 square miles

171,599/52,677,000 is 0.00325... Point 3 percent.

* believes that it's a good idea to concentrate our military strength on 0.3 PERCENT of the planet!?! In reality there could be people being trained and devising terrorists plots on the remaining 99.7% of the planet but somehow people are brainwashed into thinking there is something special about this little piece of land to make it worth murdering 100's of thousands of people. What is going on?
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 08:46 AM
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1. What is going on is... we are creating terrorists (people who will
forever hate Amurka) over there so we don't have to make them over here. Much less overhead don't you know.
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DaveJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 08:59 AM
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3. How does Chimpy get people to fall for all this??
Edited on Sat Aug-27-05 09:01 AM by djohnson
Okay for the sake of argument say that there is a finite number of "terrorists" in Iraq and we killed every one (impossible, but entertain the notion) SO WHAT? That would accomplish nothing... we are talking about ONLY .3 percent of the planet. I cannot even begin to understand how people can be so dumb.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 09:33 AM
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6. You've gotta ask?
I know the question is rhetorical, but man... the teeming hordes in this country routinely get sold a stinky bill of goods by nothing more than pithy catchphrases or banal "reasoning" every day. They Hate Us For Our Freedoms. No Child Left Behind. Patriot Act. Axis of Evil.


Same as it ever was. Americans, collectively speaking, are as dumb as the dumbest anywhere else in the world.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 09:10 AM
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4. So you're saying Iraq is just another form of "outsourcing"?. . .
:evilgrin:
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 09:14 AM
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5. Would appear so. nt.
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 08:57 AM
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2. It pacifies the American insurance industry.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:36 AM
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7. Why do you hate America?
:sarcasm:

Logic has no place in our new faith-based order; math, even less.
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