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Nation Building
Starring Spain and France, Iraq and the U.S. Plus: Leaving the Congressional Black Caucus behind. Right writing. Little Jimmy Brown. Gray Davis propped up. And much more.
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WHAT WOULD PAPA SAY (WWPS)?
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Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s
It’s
the Humidity
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When the humidity in DC gets tough, the tough take a holiday in Spain, stiff the waiters, then ponder the European aspects of the phenomenal world-wide rise of anti-Americanism. WWPS? Probably you wouldn’t want to know but he would likely have a good laugh about the notion that “ordinary” Spaniards would disagree with their eggheads (and waiters) about invading and occupying Iraq.
p>Weep not for all the anti-Americanism you seem to be taking personally, but shed a tear for the real cost to America for our Iraq folly. That is the increasing daily KIA/WIA and the $3.9B per month taxpayer obligation (that is $5.4M per hour) in pursuit of all those rapidly vanishing pre-war illusions, delusions and dreams about an unnecessary and easily avoided war. br> — P.T. Garrett /p> p> SEE YOU AT WATERLOO br> Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder’s The French, The French
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