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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 11:57 AM
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Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk
Adventures in an Alternate Reality

It's their reality. We just live and die in it.

In Bushworld, our troops go to war and get killed, but you never see the bodies coming home.

In Bushworld, flag-draped remains of the fallen are important to revere and show the nation, but only in political ads hawking the president's leadership against terror.

In Bushworld, we can create an exciting Iraqi democracy as long as it doesn't control its own military, pass any laws or have any power.

In Bushworld, we can win over Falluja by bulldozing it.

In Bushworld, it was worth going to war so Iraqis can express their feelings (''Down With America!'') without having their tongues cut out, although we cannot yet allow them to express intemperate feelings in newspapers (''Down With America!'') without shutting them down.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/10/earlyshow/leisure/books/main635241.shtml
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:25 PM
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1. In Bushworld, Maureen Dowd compares Rumsfeld to Sinatra
In Bushworld, Maureen Dowd still blasts Gore & Co. whenever possible.

In Bushworld, Maureen Dowd just thinks its all very funny and "Shakespearian" instead of noticing that thousands of people are dying.

In Bushworld, Maureen Dowd and Tom Friedman sip Daquiris while Rome burns.
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Nimrod Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 09:05 AM
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2. In Bushworld
...giving more money to the rich gives them incentive to invest. The poor have lost their incentive because we've given them too much.
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shoopnyc123 Donating Member (997 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 06:08 PM
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3. In Bushworld...
...looking at Ms. Dowd, BOTOX IS IN.
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