Bush Gored!

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<i>The German disco...was bombed because it was a popular hangout for US soldiers</i>

Yup, who were there by accident, probably visiting their grandparents.

Oh, wait - they were defending Europe!

Well perhaps Europe will have less trouble with such events when the US pulls its troops out of Germany, and Germany has to deal with the Mossad directly. And Europe has to deal with Germany directly.

Or perhaps the international terrorist community will respect Germany's borders more when Germany is defending them - since Germany is such a gracious nation to respect Iraq's borders. It's an interesting notion! (My own guess is that the terrorists don't give two shits about what a nation's policies are, if the policies are set in place by infidels.)

<i>Attacking the Israeli embassy is akin to attacking Israel, it has nothing to do with France.</i>

Everything is normal. Nothing to see here. Keep humming and everything will be alright.

Hey, it's okay if Europe is late to this war. (I'm speaking about the unstated war here, the war against radical Islam.) After all, the US was not ready in 1939.

<i>'Nuh-uh' is enough to discredit anything, but references to the 1982-83 congressional hearings yearbook, with physical descriptions of its size/colour so you'll be able to find it easily, is not.</i>

My response was to Jag, not to you. Jag made an extraordinary claim with no proof. "Nuh-uh" is precisely the correct response. Jag's behavior thereafter backed up that response: he provided a bunch of shitty links that did not prove what he claimed. (Fuck you, I actually read 'em.) They didn't even say what he thought they did! "Nuh-uh" was too MUCH, I should have just ignored it!

Now, to address you. You have basically said, "I have proof of this point, even though the point is marginally related, irrelevant to the thread, and as I've said, irrelevant to my own considerations of whether or not war is currently appropriate. I've given this proof to you in the form of instructions that will take you a half-day to execute. Despite the fact that it is not really related to the thread, I expect you to trust me on this, even though it's been 20 years since I read it. The fact that I remember the colour of the book stregthens my credibility."

My response was <i>Is that the best you can do?</i> and I stand by that response. Instead of a two-page long screed, you could have just said <i>Yes, sorry.</i>

In the US we spell it Octoberfest. And sometimes it takes place at chain seafood restaurants.