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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 09:49 AM
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72. The US isn't "the most powerful country in the world".
Not anymore. Six years ago we were pretty close to being the most powerful, but now we are simply the most dangerous. And our growing weaknesses make us more dangerous as each day passes. Like the cartoon said, "We are the most powerful third world country on earth" - that's true; but should we be proud of it? I am ashamed of being an American, even more than during the Vietnam War, or during our deplorable, murderous involvement in the Iran/Contra putrescence. We have sunk so low, have become so criminal, and so detrimental to the world, to the Earth, that I believe that the only thing we can hope for is a complete collapse of this nation. It is the world's best chance of surviving in a livable environment...
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  -'Has the place blown up?' (Bush asked Annan @ UN) sabra  Sep-15-05 02:45 PM   #0 
  - If it was anyone but bush talking about anyone but bolton  Mistress Quickly   Sep-15-05 02:47 PM   #1 
  - what an idiot  sasha031   Sep-15-05 02:49 PM   #4 
  - That is a VERY bad joke. VERY uncalled for. VERY inappropriate  calimary   Sep-15-05 03:00 PM   #13 
  - Absofreakinlutely  Sunkiss BlueStar   Sep-15-05 04:44 PM   #35 
  - This would be funny...  darkism   Sep-15-05 04:29 PM   #32 
  - oh my fucking dog.  Tyler Durden   Sep-15-05 02:48 PM   #2 
  - A chill just ran down my spine.  flamingyouth   Sep-15-05 02:48 PM   #3 
  - I think about it all the time  sasha031   Sep-15-05 02:52 PM   #7 
  - Now I have new respect for Anon  m_welby   Sep-15-05 02:50 PM   #5 
  - I would respect him more if he had turned to Bush and said  NCevilDUer   Sep-15-05 09:52 PM   #52 
  - Jebus....  defiant1   Sep-15-05 02:51 PM   #6 
  - He's SUCH A freakin' embarrassment....he doesn't have a clue  mcscajun   Sep-15-05 02:52 PM   #8 
  - Too bad he didn't say it at the airport, he might have been arrested.  higher class   Sep-15-05 02:53 PM   #9 
  - I would take that wrong if I was Mr. A......  Tesla   Sep-15-05 02:58 PM   #12 
     - To me, it sounded not a little threatening...  Dhalgren   Sep-15-05 03:01 PM   #14 
  - He had better hope that it never does - or the world will want some  Sydnie   Sep-15-05 02:57 PM   #10 
  - NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE BATHROOM REQUEST IS IMPORTANT?  IChing   Sep-15-05 02:58 PM   #11 
  - I've been thinking about that cartoon since yesterday - good job.  rkc3   Sep-15-05 03:05 PM   #16 
  - Thanks I did that before the potty news broke  IChing   Sep-15-05 03:11 PM   #21 
  - Nice!  there-s a   Sep-15-05 03:18 PM   #22 
  - Very funny - thanks for the laugh, I could use it.  adigal   Sep-15-05 07:47 PM   #50 
  - There's something seriously off with that...  pinto   Sep-15-05 03:04 PM   #15 
  - What an embarrassment!  MaineDem   Sep-15-05 03:05 PM   #17 
  - oh, now Dimson is doing stand-up....very very diplomatic  Supersedeas   Sep-15-05 03:09 PM   #18 
  - Did he ask Kofi if he could use the restroom?  Vickers   Sep-15-05 03:09 PM   #19 
  - I dunno, George.  tanyev   Sep-15-05 03:11 PM   #20 
  - Does moron* live with his foot in his mouth?  Javaman   Sep-15-05 03:25 PM   #23 
  - The guy is a total LOSER!  fooj   Sep-15-05 03:26 PM   #24 
  - It's not inappropriate humor ...  Meeker Morgan   Sep-15-05 03:40 PM   #25 
  - Especially inappropriate since Bolton has already thrown his weight  tinfoilinfor2005   Sep-15-05 03:50 PM   #26 
  - our Shrub, such a kidder  melody   Sep-15-05 03:55 PM   #27 
  - the dictator is such an  hiley   Sep-15-05 03:55 PM   #28 
  - And the freepers wonder what's wrong with the rest of the world?  0007   Sep-15-05 04:09 PM   #29 
  - The hubris of this ruling junta is unbelievable.  Robeson   Sep-15-05 04:15 PM   #30 
  - I am so embarrassed to think that the President of the United  Arkansas Granny   Sep-15-05 04:27 PM   #31 
  - Especially wrong to say, considering the death of Sergio Vieira de Mello  quiet.american   Sep-15-05 04:34 PM   #33 
  - Didn't the UN have the option of REJECTING Bolton?  hardrainfallin   Sep-15-05 04:40 PM   #34 
  - at times I've gotten so fed up with German 'knowitalls' looking down on US  bobbieinok   Sep-15-05 04:52 PM   #37 
  - I've had it with them. I lived over there for ten years  hardrainfallin   Sep-15-05 05:01 PM   #38 
     - A German protest is a day trip.  donco6   Sep-15-05 05:08 PM   #40 
     - and that's only ONE of the things they don't get....  hardrainfallin   Sep-15-05 05:12 PM   #42 
     - Many Europeans don't understand our attitude toward government, too  melody   Sep-15-05 05:09 PM   #41 
     - yrs ago, Germans: ' why not use pub transp?'... no concept of size of US  bobbieinok   Sep-15-05 06:56 PM   #46 
        - country size consciousness  melody   Sep-15-05 10:12 PM   #54 
        - yep. n/t  hardrainfallin   Sep-16-05 08:57 AM   #56 
  - Are you serious?  manic expression   Sep-15-05 07:09 PM   #47 
     - understandings and misunderstandings  melody   Sep-15-05 10:03 PM   #53 
     - yes, and the other point  hardrainfallin   Sep-16-05 09:03 AM   #58 
     - How long did you live in Germany?  hardrainfallin   Sep-16-05 09:01 AM   #57 
  - He's a Stinkin MADMAN!  AuntiBush   Sep-15-05 04:50 PM   #36 
  - "Someone has to get this bunch out, yesterday!" We did! We did! But  Peace Patriot   Sep-16-05 10:32 AM   #78 
  - Make that dumb ass remark while waiting at a security check point  DELUSIONAL   Sep-15-05 05:03 PM   #39 
  - A remark like that would get some people arrested  Spinzonner   Sep-15-05 06:32 PM   #43 
  - That's what I was thinking! nt  DawgHouse   Sep-17-05 08:48 PM   #81 
  - You have got to be fucking kidding me...  Endangered Specie   Sep-15-05 06:47 PM   #44 
  - say: aren't we supposed to rat out people we think are behaving  eek   Sep-15-05 06:54 PM   #45 
  - Doesn't Bush realize that HE is in the process of blowing places up?  Toucano   Sep-15-05 07:10 PM   #48 
  - HAR HAR HAR!!!  adigal   Sep-15-05 07:46 PM   #49 
  - NO WAY!  cwydro   Sep-15-05 07:49 PM   #51 
  - he is a crude, vulgar and ignorant  yorkiemommie1   Sep-15-05 10:41 PM   #55 
  - kick  OKNancy   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #59 
  - REUTERS: "Has the place blown up?" Bush to Annan at UN  yurbud   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #60 
  - Tell me this is not true  wtmusic   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #61 
  - Fucking sociopath  sakabatou   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #62 
  - Ass, meet hole.  niceypoo   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #63 
  - I wonder if he tells off-color jokes too, bet he does nm  whatever4   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   # 
  - "Want some cream in your Kofi? Just pulling your leg UN boy, heh heh..."  yurbud   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #65 
     - This would be tantamount to Kofi joking about 9-11  wtmusic   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #71 
  - Does he really have to be our president??  MellowOne   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #66 
  - The US has been a renegade nation since 2003  Gman   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #67 
  - Asswipe  ernstbass   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #68 
  - Ya know, if the averge citizen were caught on film making  Love Bug   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #69 
  - Interesting that Reuters is trying to undermine him  info being   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #70 
  - The US isn't "the most powerful country in the world".  Dhalgren   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #72 
  - still top strictly in terms of military power--or moral & economic stock  yurbud   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #74 
  - geez - do we HAVE to be represented by such  American in Asia   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #73 
  - This statement by * is thinly veiled hostility. Nothing *funny* about it  seafan   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #75 
  - If it blew up  CJCRANE   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #76 
     - "you know I used to do some partying at the UN before Bolty blowed it up."  yurbud   Sep-17-05 09:09 AM   #79 
  - REUTERS: "Has the place blown up?" Bush to Annan at UN  yurbud   Sep-16-05 09:49 AM   #64 
  - just an endless source of embarrassment to America  Skittles   Sep-16-05 10:18 AM   #77 
  - Bolton, Brown, Kissinger. Clinton with Poppy Bush so Poppy Bush  frankly_fedup2   Sep-17-05 08:41 PM   #80 
 

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