03-12-2010, 03:00 AM | #1 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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In The News - 5
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03-13-2010, 10:53 AM | #3 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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it will come to you in time, little grasshopper...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
03-13-2010, 02:59 PM | #4 (permalink) |
Living in a Warmer Insanity
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Jez, classic.
Funny thing is I remember when having a million bucks was a lot.
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