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JTHipster  ·  4243 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line.

Or it could be an Iranian guy, or at least a guy who looks Iranian.

Hey man he just needs to look like an arab to give us an excuse to bomb literally anyone with black hair, tan skin, and an accent. C'mon let's just get a war going on, we need to be juggling at least 9 or everyone in Washington begins to lose their throbbing erections.





kleinbl00  ·  4243 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That would blow the budget all to hell, which is what they've been fighting over tooth and claw for 6 years.

People forget - the Atlanta Olympics got blown up. In the end, it didn't do anything.

JTHipster  ·  4243 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know. I'm not being entirely serious.

Only Dick Cheney got aroused by wars.

kleinbl00  ·  4243 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If only that were true.

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You know, it's interesting. There's a great book called Legacy of Ashes that details the history of the CIA from the Black Chamber to September 11. It actually left me sympathetic to Cheney's point of view; when he was a senator and we went into Iraq during Desert Storm, we found a whole bunch of heinous shit that the CIA didn't know anything about. So when he was VP and the CIA was telling him there wasn't any heinous shit in Iraq, he sort of went "that's what you said last time" and presumed that if the CIA couldn't find it, that meant it was worth hiding.

Make no mistake - I think the dude is evil. But thanks to that book, I could see his point of view.