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i was travelling the past 10 days----but if it's a secret letter, wouldn't it follow that we wouldn't know the contents? if we knew the contents, it wouldn't be terribly secret, would it? unless the words "secret letter" are the contents--which is the only way i can think of that a secret letter can be public and so not secret but still be a secret letter at the same time. but if the contents are "secret letter" then the whole thing just seems goofy, doesn't it?
o wait--i know---you're one of the 4 people who actually saw a point beyond provocation in that missle-based deodorant idea that the bush people sold to poland and which was rejected by the czech republic and which didn't involve any actual missles at this point and had no particular strategic function but which did enable those nice free-enterprisers like morton thiokol to get nice new allotments of "taxpayer money" which normally you're such a defender of. so you might actually believe that there was some kind of security function to that bit of---oh what's the word you quaint conservatives use to denote programs that do not benefit the patronage network that kicks back money to the republican party as campaign contributions?--o yeah--that bit of conservative-style pork.
well, ace, i don't think the view of yourself and those 3 other people who believed there was some plausible strategic function to those systems really have much of a platform these days, and i think obama probably did the smartest thing he could with a system he probably wasn't going to continue squandering money on anyway, and used it as a bargaining chip.
but that still doesn't resolve the question of how a secret letter is secret if everyone knows about it.
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