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   KestrelBrighteyes said on 4/1/2007 @ 4:47pm PT: [Permalink]

   “Permission to think it through denied”

   Yep

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   Larry Bergan said on 4/1/2007 @ 5:05pm PT: [Permalink]

   Because our leaders didn’t learn the lessons of history, YOU are doomed to repeat them soldier, now get back to your station!

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   Jeff said on 4/2/2007 @ 12:46am PT: [Permalink]

   Our’s is not to wonder why? Our’s is just to do or die!

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   Dredd said on 4/2/2007 @ 5:50am PT: [Permalink]

   Even Henry Kissinger, who won the “Last Person To Get It” award in Vietnam, gets it about Iraq now:

   Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible.
   …
   Kissinger said the best way forward is to reconcile the differences between Iraq’s warring sects with help from other countries. He applauded efforts to host an international conference bringing together the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Iraq’s neighbors “” including Iran, Washington’s longtime rival in the region.

   “That is the sort of framework out of which it is conceivable that an agreement should emerge,” Kissinger said. “One needs to be prepared to negotiate with adversaries.”

   (M. Moore, emphasis added).

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   Dredd said on 4/2/2007 @ 8:29am PT: [Permalink]

   Desolation Rove

   They’re selling postcards of the hanging
   They’re painting the passports brown
   The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
   The circus is in town
   Here comes the blind commissioner
   They’ve got him in a trance
   One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
   The other is in his pants
   And the riot squad they’re restless
   They need somewhere to go
   As Lady and I look out tonight
   From Desolation Rove

   Cinderella, she seems so easy
   “It takes one to know one,” she smiles
   And puts her hands in her back pockets
   Bette Davis style
   And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning
   “You Belong to Me I Believe”
   And someone says,” You’re in the wrong place, my friend
   You better leave”
   And the only sound that’s left
   After the ambulances go
   Is Cinderella sweeping up
   On Desolation Rove

   Now the moon is almost hidden
   The stars are beginning to hide
   The fortunetelling lady
   Has even taken all her things inside
   All except for Cain and Abel
   And the hunchback of Notre Dame
   Everybody is making love
   Or else expecting rain
   And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing
   He’s getting ready for the show
   He’s going to the carnival tonight
   On Desolation Rove

   Now Ophelia, she’s ‘neath the window
   For her I feel so afraid
   On her twenty-second birthday
   She already is an old maid
   To her, death is quite romantic
   She wears an iron vest
   Her profession’s her religion
   Her sin is her lifelessness
   And though her eyes are fixed upon
   Noah’s great rainbow
   She spends her time peeking
   Into Desolation Rove

   Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
   With his memories in a trunk
   Passed this way an hour ago
   With his friend, a jealous monk
   He looked so immaculately frightful
   As he bummed a cigarette
   Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
   And reciting the alphabet
   Now you would not think to look at him
   But he was famous long ago
   For playing the electric violin
   On Desolation Rove

   Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
   Inside of a leather cup
   But all his sexless patients
   They’re trying to blow it up
   Now his nurse, some local loser
   She’s in charge of the cyanide hole
   And she also keeps the cards that read
   “Have Mercy on His Soul”
   They all play on penny whistles
   You can hear them blow
   If you lean your head out far enough
   From Desolation Rove

   Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains
   They’re getting ready for the feast
   The Phantom of the Opera
   A perfect image of a priest
   They’re spoonfeeding Casanova
   To get him to feel more assured
   Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence
   After poisoning him with words
   And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls
   “Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know
   Casanova is just being punished for going
   To Desolation Rove”

   Now at midnight all the agents
   And the superhuman crew
   Come out and round up everyone
   That knows more than they do
   Then they bring them to the factory
   Where the heart-attack machine
   Is strapped across their shoulders
   And then the kerosene
   Is brought down from the castles
   By insurance men who go
   Check to see that nobody is escaping
   To Desolation Rove

   Praise be to Nero’s Neptune
   The Titanic sails at dawn
   And everybody’s shouting
   “Which Side Are You On?”
   And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
   Fighting in the captain’s tower
   While calypso singers laugh at them
   And fishermen hold flowers
   Between the windows of the sea
   Where lovely mermaids flow
   And nobody has to think too much
   About Desolation Rove

   Yes, I received your letter yesterday
   (About the time the door knob broke)
   When you asked how I was doing
   Was that some kind of joke?
   All these people that you mention
   Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
   I had to rearrange their faces
   And give them all another name
   Right now I can’t read too good
   Don’t send me no more letters no
   Not unless you mail them
   From Desolation Rove

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   MarkH said on 4/2/2007 @ 10:47am PT: [Permalink]

   Better late than never.

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   Adam Fulford said on 4/2/2007 @ 12:47pm PT: [Permalink]

   Reading Henry Kissinger’s comments, I’d say he kept all his bases covered on that one. He was simultaneously supporting Bush on the Iraq war and saying the war was impossible to win.

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   Larry Bergan said on 4/3/2007 @ 1:12am PT: [Permalink]

   Kissinger is like one of those guys that kills his whole family before killing himself, only he kills millions of people and the DOESN’T kill himself.

   What a ghoul!