FWD: Monty Python, Part two

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That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife
> > and children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave
> > us
> > in peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.
> >
> > Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is
> > that
> > Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass
destruction -
> >
> > even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much
justification
> > for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr
> > Bush has for bombing Iraq.  Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world
a
> >
> > safer place
> > by eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'.
> >
> > It's such a clever long-term aim because how can you ever know when
you've
> >
> > achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists?
> > When
> > every single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist
> > once he's committed an act of terror. What about would-be terrorists?
> > These
> > are the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of
> > the known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already eliminated
> > themselves.
> >   Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a
> > future
> > terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until
every
> > Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might
> > convert
> > to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for
Mr
> > Bush to eliminate all Muslims?
> >
> > It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip of
> > the
> > iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like
> > and
> > who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe
> > until I've wiped them all out. My wife says I might be going too far but
I
> >
> > tell her I'm simply using the same logic as the President of the United
> > States. That shuts her up.
> >
> > Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough
reason
> >
> > for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole
> > street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and hand over
all
> >
> > aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and
> > interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over
> > nicely
> > and say 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom
come.
> > It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast
> > to
> > what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street.

kwp
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