Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 07/19/04 6:05 am:
we take on missions of freeing oppressed people ,and the world calls us belligerent .We don't act ,and then we are condemned for non-action . no way to win.

Clarification/Follow-up by SanchoPanza on 07/19/04 4:16 pm:
It's more that people eye with suspicionn regimes that intervene in the internal affairs of other nation states, when there is a huge economic or political advantage for themselves and then ignore the situation in other areas where there is little or no profit for the corporations that support them.

People do not damn Bush for getting involved in Iraq but for the bald faced lies that he spews forth about his reasons for doing so.

If Bush went into Iraq to save people from opression it's strange that he chose the British as his main ally. They have been opressing the Irish for centuries.

Clarification/Follow-up by chekhovToo on 07/20/04 7:24 am:
"we take on missions of freeing oppressed people ,and the world calls us belligerent .We don't act ,and then we are condemned for non-action . no way to win".

Tom, this is an over-simplification don't you think?

Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 07/20/04 9:27 am:

Hey Sancho, Welcome.

I've been waiting to meet you. In the slam, we refer to a mythical guy named Sancho, who's keeping the wife happy until we get home.

You've been a busy guy.

excon

Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 07/20/04 11:24 am:

Hello again, Bobby:

Maybe we pick our spots by whose got oil? Nahh, that would be cynical.

excon

Clarification/Follow-up by Yiddishkeit on 07/20/04 11:36 am:
Could be, but I'm still waiting for gas prices to lower. The lesser grade in Las Vegas around $2.25 and the premium about $2.38 a gallon. So any advantage their maybe has not filtered it's way to my neighborhood yet...I suspect someone is stuffing the their own pockets, as usual.

Bobby

Clarification/Follow-up by SanchoPanza on 07/20/04 5:00 pm:
Sancho Panza is a mythical guy.

He is Don Quixote's servant and the one person who validates his fantastical reality, which of course ensures the continuation of his own employment!

Clarification/Follow-up by Yiddishkeit on 07/20/04 7:33 pm:
Pirates of the Caribbean?