>Ritu, who is not sure if Mike really believes what he says or if >he is just good at parody
I would filter him out but silence equals assent. But I don't have time to respond to each of his over the top statements. Reminds me of some frequent posters I tracked down who were very popular on right wing sites. Several turned out to be in high school - no wonder they seemed sophomoric. When people start a diatribe of hate and ignorance it is worth it for others to say "that is not true." If someone does not speak up, how many assume that there is no opposition, that everyone thinks that? This latest screed on violence solving your problems reminds me of the reasons the Nixon White House gave when they carpet bombed the Cambodian border areas - "We will wipe out the base camps and guerrillas threatening Vietnam and at the same time strengthen the Cambodian government by getting rid of those thugs." With thousands of Cambodians dead the government fairly quickly fell. The people avoided having anything to do with the West and the most extreme revolutionaries turned the entire country into a bloodbath as the world looked away. Vietnam fell too you may remember. Yeah, a few nukes on those terrorists will sure fix things. It will first multiply the people with a reason to look with fear, hate and loathing on the US and then science or a few bucks eventually provides the multiplied survivors with some mass terror weapon. Funny how civilization is much more vulnerable to those weapons than a few people wandering urban slums and the world outback. A good solution to Iraq is to declare victory (cheers, flag waving), turn Chalabi over to Jordan to serve his over 20 years for bank fraud (cheers, least popular leader in Iraq with 0.1% support), give Kurds their own country (cheers, they will gladly give us bases), give the Shiites their own country (no cheers but no more suicide bombers either, we killed too many and let Saddam kill too many for cheers), prosecute Haliburton and others for war profiteering and corruption, and then start figuring out what to do to those idiots who cost us $200 billion in Iraq and that is cheap compared to their other domestic boondoggles. Since the rich elected them why don't we declare a "you have to pay for your stupid mistakes" surcharge income tax to get the budget back in balance? Still don't know if that makes up for the "What did you do in the war, daddy? Why I stayed home and spent some of my war tax cut, dear!" of the last two years. Gary "An occasional rant may actually be good for my blood pressure." Denton Easter Lemming Liberal News Digest _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
