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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (206399)	10/18/2006 12:00:53 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Maurice, yes, we could have sent our most ardent female volunteers, almost all Republican of course, to invade Iraq. If they used suggestive clothing as their weapon of choice and employed the ancient carrot/stick approach, they might well have been welcomed with open arms, and possibly even flowers, by the alpha males. That course, however, might have resulted in the dumbing down of future generations of Iraqi children. Dumber potential enemies might be considered a good thing but those children might have also been prone, through their mother's genes, to take unnuanced positions and have been incapable of "flip flopping" even in the face of overwhelming facts. (Imagine hordes of Cobalts with tans and veils.) If they actually succeeded in some pre-invasion missionary goal of creating democracy in Iraq, we might well have seen a future cursed with a majority of Iraqis doggedly determined to "help" America. (Remember that people can be "doggedly" determined and yet not appear doggy. "Why" is another of life's great mysteries.) I don't know how things are in New Zealand but the thought of getting that kind of "help" over here is the stuff of nightmares. No, I think we're better off keeping those ardent women close by where we can keep an eye on them and, every decade or so, let the pendulum swing back and smack them in their backsides. By the way, New Zealand's Maori didn't have the internet so they didn't know what was coming. Second, I think they have a plan to take back the country but they're waiting for the "English" to build it up a little more. Even now they're probably watching the Iraqi insurgent's tactics with interest. As Jack Nicholson said to the French president, Maurice, in "Mars Attacks," "Maurice, get the hell out of there, now!" Fade to sounds of ray guns, screams (in French) and then ominous silence. Of course in Iraq maybe we're the little guys with ray guns zapping people left and right as we chant through our electronic interpreting devices, "do not run, we are your friends, do not run, we are your friends." (I guess I hope so cause I don't want my head on a dog's body.) Ed