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Congratulations, you have just encapsulated aparthied! Now try to reduce it down to a haiku for bonus points!

You are ignoring a multitude of possibilities. Just because the cover story that the public was fed was incorrect, does not mean there wasn't a real threat and a real reason to attack Saddam Hussein. I don not for a moment think or expect the various secret services to divulge all their motives, methods, means and objectives to the hoi polloi. Yes the stated rationale was proved false; since when does international politics deal in stated truths? It's like the US government indicting Al Capone, the biggest illicit bootlegger during Prohibition, extortionist, mastermind murderer and organised criminal boss, for tax evasion: it's just a means to an end. The double standards come when other worthy despots aren't given the same treatment; then again, not many other countries have the poor military assets that Iraq has: North Korea has a formidable missle defence programme and a large quasi-ally in China bordering her and Iran has a not-insignificant military. I'm not sure the exact state of the African nations like the western African Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Sierra Leone, etc, and Somalia and Zimbabwe, too. I suspect that the opportunity cost is too high to warrant any action presently, and there is no great compulsion (e.g. scarcity of resources), so these countries do not gain the burning glare of international attention. Ditto for the ex-Soviet satraps, like Kurdistan. The biggest issue with US politics is the determined and significant process of opacification: Bush seems to have presided over the single most devolutionary period of government, where cronyism and corruption are okay as long as it works. It's only a small step to a republic like East Germany ...

I've told you once.

I actually laughed out loud at this bit. Thank you, I needed that. :D

I already have one, thank-you Hades, unless you were trying to foist the prequel trilogy onto me; in that case, no thank you very much.

St. Christopher = Me <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OMFG! If you primise to wear that beard all day long, Ill be your personal assistant (I will be dressed as baby jesus) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I thought you deserved a better placing in the results; that was an inspired costume. (Okay, Sticky Note man did a good job, but he did steal the idea from Bruce Almighty ...) Now Kaftan as a baby jesus ... hmmm ... does that automatically mean that you'll be crying, Kaftan ?

I believe you volunteered me, Launchie, but I am able to complete it now as I have a spare moment (just before Civ 4 is released and I lose all concept of time and space for a month, in between performing my chauffeur duties and moving house.

On behalf of France, I surrender.

Another twelve hour day in London doing the rounds of professors and learning all there is to know about oncology. Just got back after leaving this morning. Traffic was abominable (just for an added bonus) and the weather was attrocious (but that's to be expected). I'll mark off some time, hopefully tomorrow, to read and revise the rules. (I can't even remember my own name at the moment, but the good news is Civilzation IV is released tomorrow ..!)

You turn that other cheek, now: be a good little christian.

LS Revan is canon. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "Canon" is only for imbeciles that cannot think for themselves, and require someone to tell them how to think. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wrong. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> See? Of course you don't. Proves my point. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wrong. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Touch

I just bought and started playing CT, although I ain't got PT yet. I will wait until then, I think, because I haven't got far with CT (and I'm not sure I like it as much as the first game ... might be that my GPU is struggling with all those shadows, but I'm also not convinced I like the funky first-c.um-third-person view camera angles ...) I believe it is out in time for Xmas ...

You shouldn't argue with a fool, because on-lookers might not be able to tell the difference ...

Aren't you drunk yet?

LOST. What unanswered questions? It all seems pretty straight forward to me ...

Yes. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

LS Revan is canon. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "Canon" is only for imbeciles that cannot think for themselves, and require someone to tell them how to think. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wrong. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> See? Of course you don't. Proves my point.

:ph34r:

Doomed!

Judge me by my size, do you? Yoda yaddering on in ESB.

Don't misunderestimate him ...

S'funny one of the people involved with Terry Gillian on the new Brothers Grimm was discussing the motive for their original collaboration with him on Brazil. He said that they na

I can see now why the fora are a lot quieter than normal ...

Maybe it was meant to be "tosser" ..?