I think Pat Buchanan is wrong about the American people being strongly against the war. Patriotism sells when the media is behind it. During the Cold War half of the media was playing for the other side. There's plenty of reason to be against the war, but I suspect the anti-war majority is pretty tepid and ambivalent. If it were a burning issue the Democrats would be pressing it harder.

The one thing that was correct about the Bush Administration's take on Iraq is that any nation with the ability to land a nuke in Manhattan has us over a barrel, because life here is good and we don't like the idea of dying by millions. Considering the costs of the Iraq war, and the impracticality/immorality of attempting to wipe Islam from the face of the earth, perhaps we should work toward d'etente with Islam. Apologize for genuine transgressions, get off their land, and send them nice aid packages in return for their agreeing not to build nukes and not to bother Israel. They might not agree until a Palestinian solution was worked out, but that too might be possible if we took a more even-handed approach. It would cost a pittance compared to what we are spending now, and would save a lot of lives. And with a new administration in place, we wouldn't have to eat too much crow.

"Hello stats... how are you today. are your stats correct? is that what you 'believe' mr. stats?"

"Yes Hal, I'm innocent."

"Well, stats that's hard to believe. No one, I have been programmed to say, is innocent?"

*Good news, Hal's wrong... the simple sometimes eludes, and in Fact well, the innocent strangely enough - are innocent. HAL'S programmer may have been bogus. Thus even HAL suffers some deep-seated errors. Funny, too. Rewind.

Sound familiar - or too 'cherry picked'? ... To save one, meaning as a practical matter, you have to save both by somehow making the parties aware of themselves. I don't even know if there's a more succinct vocabulary for it yet? ... But since 'stats' for you it's only a word game and so you project that out at me well, one can only ask - are you aware? Possibly you are aware since choosing the moniker (or word deception) 'stats', 'as if' that's where you're coming from. If even that was an unconscious mistake and not a conscious deception you're a perfect [unconscious] example.

'stats': figures don't lie but liars who are conscious can figure. Often sadly the lies are even unbeknownst to themselves. The latter is of course the more hopeful scenario. This doesn't mean I'm 'right' meaning perfectly accurate, but it doesn't mean I'm not. The mistakes at play today are deep-seated and require some digging. The truth is difficult to find sometimes but not impossible. Good luck.

bondage to the (essentially arbitrary) law in secular or religious Judaism (i.e. that history or historical build-up) stand on one foot etc. as discipline, admirably in search of the divine aspect (good) = SUBconsciously & consciously pursuing (chasing one's tail) a Subjective (and thus) patently relative dialectic that is UNFORTUNATELY also wed (and thus elevated 'as if' at a divine aspect) to absolute idealism (i.e. 'her' making it just so) which is subsequently nonetheless & pathetically patently delusion as well. (I call it verbal knowledge alone or 'the' narrative.) They LIVE that delusion in an organized fashion. That's the bad news. The good news is that mistake is both LEARNED & taught, not genetic. But it also proves you see - Myth Works - even when misappropriated sadly.

The REASON Christianity is NOT just another wrinkle or splinter of Judaism is due to the Pauline or Greek sensibility transferred in the Gospels thank God via St. Paul. He's our Religion's reality check so to speak. He's the testosterone as it were. The link between what 'she' would have it be not having to Do it herself (i.e. NOT verbal knowledge alone) and the Actual. You need BOTH. We have it culturally and civilizationally - Judaism only has 'her'. It's WHY she alone never became and NEVER can become a civilization itself. She NEEDS subsequently her patron. i.e. YOU.

Get it? 'She' as it were should win at Home NOT out HERE because that perspective is only 1/2 the coconut. The U.S. NOW is only 1/2 the coconut pretending to be whole. ... Questions?

If this is true, then the chances of avoiding war with Iran are slim.

And then, since We are, we shall become song. But make no mistake about it YOU are the patron i.e. Christianity. Don't be fooled.

It's ok it's only now that time has come. Don't beat yourselves Up too badly. It ain't (sorry) Robert Taft's world no more.

scared? In my opinion God loves it when we rattle the floors of heaven, especially if appropriately. then a smile.

hey - delete this one - monitors seriously. unless... ? ... Since it's only how it feels to me, very little me. Lord, take this badge off of me - I don't need it anymore.

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2.) that China has unlimited potential. That's silly. I would say that these myths are designed to pander to both fear and greed which neo-cons have expertly exploited in America and especially in the W. Bush null set. You can fill an empty space with anything just about. Dahhh!!! In the Bush set if they can even understand what you tell them, they're proud of themselves and just assume they 'agree' with it.

Is Robert Taft today a neo-con? Perhaps I should ask him, are you?