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Look Who's Going to the Woodshed
Topic Started: Aug 9 2007, 01:09 PM (69 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Iranian news agencies were reporting that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq had thanked the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran for his country’s “positive and constructive role” in Iraq.

Asked about those reports, Mr. Bush said he had no corroboration that Mr. Maliki in fact said any such thing but, “If the signal is that Iran is constructive, I will have to have a heart-to-heart with my friend, the prime minister, because I don’t believe they are constructive. I don’t think he, in his heart of heart, thinks they’re constructive, either.”


It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Sounds like Maliki (if true) is just trying to be diplomatic when Bush is refusing to talk to Ahmadinijdadidjad.

I'm not a fan of Bush's "silent game" with the leaders of enemy nations, but I dont think he should be a diplomatic whore like Pelosi was in Syria.
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Red Rice
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Consider the source. I'd wait for confirmation. But if true, it further diminishes confidence in al-Maliki's government.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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