This Is Why We Fight, Lovely Rita

[Keith Davis]

If you hold him down, I'll pee on him for free...

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael Bailey wrote:
> > boilerplate stuff - but needs to be said
> >
>
> I just had this flash: maybe it didn't...
>
> but, shucks, trying to shape a good pacifist sound bite is usually an
> attractive challenge though.
>
> here's a couple more...
>
> If you had a government that had a policy of being so nice that nobody
> would attack it, that would inspire emulation (especially if the
> former rampant superpower espoused it)
>
> if the darn Soviet Union wouldn't have tried to annex Afghanistan they
> could have spent that effort differently and quite possibly solved
> their internal problems and detente would have been for real
>
> if the darn US hadn't toppled all the secular democracies a-borning
> back in the 20th century, it's a good bet that most of us would be a
> lot happier today
>
> if darn BP didn't have the ability to involve governments in its
> machinations, and if Kennedy had ducked down on 11/22/63 to pull up
> his socks or take a nip from a flask just as a bullet whizzed by
> overhead...
>
> if there was a commitment to peacemaking with a military-size budget
> behind it, or even a homeland-security budget, wherein people could
> have lucrative careers and get on the news and taken seriously by
> talking heads...
>
> if there was any justice, somebody would be empowered and paid good
> money to pee on Dick Cheney (but we wouldn't pay to kill him 1st)!
>



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