hehehe … Yeah I heard those boys were some bad-asses. ;)

Did FGR allow us in on their illegal trading with pre-war Iraq?

No, I’m not with Johnny Kennedy’s crew. I typically hang with the Ronnie Reagan crew.

(Don’t mind the peanut gallery, Radley. Stick to your libertarian guns.)

Does being â??Cursed above all the Cattleâ? count as corporal punishment?

You aren’t the same Aaron that is part of Johnny Kennedy’s crew are you?

Okay, and by the same token just because someone has raped and murdered your wife doesnâ??t mean that I should be prohibited from trading with them! I donâ??t care about You or your dead wife getting justice! I just want the best product at the best price. I donâ??t care about You I only care about me, Me, ME!!!

What the Fvck does us have to do with it? Wouldn’t the best product for the best price be the best deal for the Me? Who gives a s**t about Your foolish pride.. If a Raping Murderer could build better roads, faster and cheaper than anyone else, then I say our gov’t is wasting our tax dollars by not employing the raping murderer to do it! And in the end will be coming back to ask Me for more. IMHO

BTW, I think it’s high time that the US quit looking at Iraq as some victorius prize. The war is not over until we have our troops out of country and back home alive….

So what you are saying is is that we’re still fighting WW2 in Europe?

No more needs to be said.

While some see this policy as ideologically impure and possible childish, I see it as a lovely package combining carrot and stick. I don’t mind my government projecting the message of, as one of the commenters above put it, Don’t Fuck with Us.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. The Taliban did and we were compelled to militarily oust them for harboring al Qaeda.

We have enough murderers rapists and thieves in our own country (and government, no less) to keep us busy. I note that we’ve ignored the murderers, rapists and thieves in the Congo and China and Bangladesh and Russia where it doesn’t make good business sense to invade and impose neoconservative morals.

Correction: the war is STILL being fought. Don’t lecture me on reality. I have mine and you have yours.

France didn’t ally with Saddam. Its government adamantly refused to back us in the war. There’s a big difference.

When you refer to the US government (i.e. Bush) as “we” you lose me. I opposed the war from the beginning and oppose the way it’s being managed now.

Your frothing assessment of France as an ally of Saddam and a bad child to be whipped by George W. Bush, rather than as a sovereign nation with its own interests could land you a job in the White House. You should send them your resume.

Is War good business?

And are you forgetting about 9/11 or just conveniently ignoring it?

Hey if you want to ignore murderers, rapists, and thieves, we could probably boost the economy by keeping them out of prisons.

MA: I agree with Radley this time. It’s not just that this war is of dubious merit as far as wars go â?¦

Regardless of the merits the war has already been fought. The time to debate its merits is past. Either you can deal with reality as it is, or you can erroneously deal with reality as you wish it were.

MA: â?¦ but the way our government is conducting the enterprise itself is a shitty deal for US taxpayers first and anyone who’s not in the pants of the ruling elite second.

Ahhh, so when someone does something wrong to us (like a thief robbing your neighbors house, or France allying with Saddam) we shouldnâ??t negatively reinforce their behavior because as any â??saneâ? person knows there are no consequences for action?

We just turn the other cheek. Is that what you are saying MA?