On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:59:50 -0400, Kevin Gowen  ...
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>John W. wrote:
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>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote in message
>>news:<cft11n$apb$5@news.Stanford.EDU>...
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>>>John W. <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote in message
>>>>news:<cfrvop$jb9$3@news.Stanford.EDU>...
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>>>>>Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>John W. wrote:
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>>>>>>Because he's a rich fat cat?
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>>>>>Naw, cause he's an idiot draft-dodger.
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>>>>Increasingly I'm prone to believing he isn't as big of an idiot as he
>>>>sometimes appears. If he was, he wouldn't have been able to get past
>>>>the primaries, much less actually get elected.
>>>
>>>In many respects, he's not so much stupid, as lazy. He doesn't think
>>>through the consequences of his actions, and expects to charm (or
>>>"lead", if you will) his way out of any problems. 
>>>
>>>And being a "true believer", he cannot understand much of his
>>>opposition.
>>>
>> 
>> Ignoring Reagan comments, I'd say that's a fair assessment. One thing
>> I love about not having Cable is that for the most part I get a
>> reasonable view of the news since I am forced to actually go get it
>> and not have it forced upon me. I personally will probably never watch
>> Farenheit since a lot of the things in the movie (the things that have
>> made the press, that is) I already know from just paying attention to
>> the news. It's sad that Moore is considered by some to have presented
>> eye-opening stuff, but as Ted Koppell (sp) pointed out on NPR
>> yesterday morning some of those stories had already been done (and
>> ignored) by the mainstream. If you're not yelling the story at someone
>> these days I guess it's not news.
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>OMG THE AFGHAN WAR WAS TO BUILD AN OIL PIPELINE!!!11!! NO BLOOD FOR 
>OIL!!!1!!
>

"AFGHAN WAR"? Was there a formal declaration of war? Or was this a sub-war of
the WAR ON TERROR (TM)?




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