| Perhaps you get tired of hearing
me drone on and on, so occasionally we see a burning message
from another voice and put it out there for you to witness. This is
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| 3/19/2003
I see a lot of people yelling for
peace but i have not heard of one plan
for peace. "Books, not Bombs" won't work. The
head mullahs won't let anyone read
them. If they do, they poke their eyes out.
Here's the plan:
1) The US will apologize to the world for our
"interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know,
Hitler, Mussolini and the rest of them
'good old boys'. We will never "interfere" again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the
world, starting with Germany, South Korea
and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We
would station troops at our borders. No more
sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have
90 days to get their affairs together and
leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days
the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately,
regardless of who or where they are. France would
welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked
and limited to 90 days unless given a
special permit. No one from a terrorist nation
would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it
yourself, don't hide here. Asylum would not ever
be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers.
5) No "students" over age 21.
The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they
get a "D" and it's back home
baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become
self sufficient energy wise. This will include
developing non polluting sources of energy but
will require a temporary drilling of oil in the
Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope
for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other
oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their
oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else.
8) If there is a famine or other
natural catastrophe in the world, we will not
"interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever,
for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides, most of
what we give them is stolen or given to the
army. The people who need it most get very
little, if any, anyway.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to
an island some place. We don't need the
spies and fair weather friends here.
Besides, it would make a good homeless shelter or
lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm
and beauty school. That way, no one can call us
"Ugly Americans" any longer.
Now, ain't that a winner of a plan?
Sam
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| 3/13/2003
Folks, it hurts to admit it, but the
bottom line is THIS: Reeling with war lust, some of
our "leaders" are acting the way
booze-addled idiots act when a friend -
and whether we like it or not, France IS our friend
and ally - tries to take the car keys away from us,
to keep us from wrapping the Buick around a
telephone pole, or worse. Maybe it's time we
stopped REACTING and started LISTENING
to what our many friends and allies around the world are trying to
tell us.
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1/28/2003
Care of: SLONOW
Dear SLO, I understand that you want
intelligent letters from the conservative
contingent. It appears that only those with a limited knowledge of
the English language and a repertoire of slogans
and misrepresentation of facts
seem to answer at all. I still have a lot of unanswered
questions about Iraq and Saddam
Hussein that sorely plague my mind. Nobody seems to be
asking them. Particularly, the Democrats, who
must have been told that if they become traitorous,
they may be visited by the "Anthrax Guy". Which
is another question I have.
Within hours of the 9/11
attacks we knew that it was Usama Bin Laden
that caused it. We knew who the hijackers were
and had video tape of one of them at a
Wal-mart. We knew that they went to flight
instruction and almost learned to fly a real
airplane. Yet a year and some later; we know not
who spread anthrax via the postal system. That
brings up a whole other bag of questions that I didn't
want to get into, because I'm more concerned about
Iraq.
First, the Bush administration claims Iraq has
weapons of mass destruction. He's flapped around
pages of "intelligence" reports, ala Joe McCarthy,
saying that it's proof of his assertion. Tony Blair
has a dossier saying the same. What about reconnaissance photos?
They fly spy planes over Iraq continuously, yet
no pictures. Anyone with an Internet connection
can get satellite pictures of his/her home. Some claim to be so
detailed they can show the hairs on your wife's nipples as she
sunbathes nude. I would think that they could get pictures of a
nuclear reactor.
Oops! I forgot, they're building it in
Uncle Abdul Bob's camper trailer so it can be moved all
over Iraq. They seem to be playing on our ignorance
of how big these things have to be. They claim
that they have photos of semi-trailers being moved from place to
place. Isn't that the idea of trailers?
I suppose you could get some pretty good pictures of truck
trailers being moved over at the Frito-Lay potato chip
plant. Trailers in and out of there all the time. Is
Saddam already here? Are Fritos
a bio-terror weapon of mass destruction?
Supposedly, our technology is so advanced not
only can we have high resolution satellite photos
but infrared photos that can see through
brick walls and so detailed you can almost tell what kind
of cigarette they smoke. And of course there's the Xray
glasses you can buy in the back of a comic book. We have
gas spectroanalysis that can tell us what a
planet many, many light years away is made out of and what
a Martian ate for supper by his farts.
Yet no proof of Saddam's weapons. Of course, I think that he
does have them, just in case the FBI is
reading this.
If Iraq does have or will have
these weapons, how will they deliver them? Maybe
he's been developing a bunch of Islamic supermen
to swim the Atlantic towing a boat with an
atom bomb on it. This is playing on our ignorance
again. Does anyone know how much enriched uranium it would take to
make even a small bomb like the one of
Hiroshima fame? Could you bring it on a plane with
carry-on luggage? I think not.
How long to make it? It must not be much, because Saddam is
building this stuff in the dark, cramped
space of a truck trailer. And certainly, they would have
to test it first. That means two bombs.
Then you have to get it to where you want to explode it. Silly me!
I forgot about those Scud missiles. The last
time they used them some actually got past the Iraq border. He has
a broken down air force with a couple of
helicopters and no parts to fix them
with. I wonder if Saddam has gotten better equipment
since the Gulf War? Oh yeah, he couldn't
have! His country is broke and he's
embargoed. Who would give credit to a
guy that would be vaporized if he uses his ill
gotten weapons? Even if not, where's the
recon photos? It might be a little hard
to hide an ICBM out by the pool.
I would think they should at least fake some
pictures. Maybe like those Bin Laden videos,
which look like cheesy green screen tricks, much
like the weather guy on channel 8. This might be
one of the few things I agree with Chris Matthews
on. Quoting George H.W. famous catch phrase
stolen from a fast food commercial, "Where's the beef?"
To make a short story long [You're three paragraphs too
late for that. - SLO] Saddam Hussein might be a
mad man, but is he really stupid? There
are a lot of questions about the administration's version of
things. They have a lot of ridiculous answers, but it always comes
down to cheap oil. It's the last statement of
everyone's argument. My last question would be: Do I want my
kids to die in the sand of a foreign land or park my SUV?
This seems like the waning time of Happy Days.
Dubya is going to jump a shark.
Sincerely,
SLONOW@XXX.NET
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