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To: michael97123 who wrote (153508)	12/6/2004 7:05:31 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Now, now, don't get churlish. I really do think that the kill ratio being in favor of the Saudis is a factor which should be considered. After all, it's not really how many you kill, but how efficiently you do it. Having fire-bombed Dresden, infected Native Americans with smallpox, bombed Vietnam into a fare-thee-well, nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and killed that mythical 100,000 in Iraq, don't you agree that we should allow the poor bedraggled Third World Saudis and Islamists and assorted nutcases, I mean, freedom fighters, a chance to catch up with us in the killing and murdering department? Wouldn't it be, like, fair? The Saudi 19 are simply playing a little All American catch up ball. God knows they need to. After all, they knew we were going after the Iraqi oil and had to do what they could to stop us from engaging in such an incredible breach of the most basic rules of international relations. In a few years, they will have caught up with us, then we will be able to kill on a fair, one-to-one basis. Heck, the Iranians need nukes, too, despite their protestations that their programs are for power plant purposes only. It's a wonder we didn't learn from Carter, who in a very admirable Christian-like way turned the other cheek when Khomeini and his bunch took over the Embassy and the hostages. After what we had done to Mossadegh a few decades previously, it was clearly fair that they retaliate and that we allow them to do so with impunity. And it's going to be time soon for us to atone for globalization and the global sickness it is spreading. I think that we ought to institute the McDonald's ratio, and this is how it works: For every burger McDonald's sells, we grant the Islamists, or whatever group you prefer, the right to set off a car bomb in an Embassy, consulate, or corporate office, so that each burger sold equals one American life. By golly, that will teach us to behave, and not sell those nasty hamburgers, don't you think?