Own Goal is a soccer term for when you accidentally kick the ball through your own goal, earning a point for the other team.
The problem with funding Terrorism, or Biological Weapons, or Chemical Weapons, is that they end up being dangerous to your own people.
Seems like the Iranians are Blowing Themselves Up Now
The Airplane-liquid bombers were going to use a concoction of concentrated hydrogen peroxide and something else to make tricacetone triperoxide (TATP), which has accidentally killed more terrorists then anything the US has done. (Oops, Own Goal)
Meanwhile, the liquid-binary explosive that was really cool in that Die Hard movie, only exists in that movie.
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Invade Iraq to stop WMDs, then change reason to spread democracy, and change the reason again to stop possible genocide.
Meanwhile 600 billion official but 2 trillion actual USD’s spent, on the national credit card, producing 4000+ US soldiers dead, 25,000 + severely injured and a disillusioned national guard system stop lossed in tour after tour after tour.
Add to this an increase in terror attacks post 911, increased Arab anger at the US, 120$ oil, 9 trillion dollars in public debt, a crashing dollar, and angry american public rejecting the GOP, and a free Bin Laden who continues to put out propaganda tapes….
The hyper patriots buried the good ole USA into the ground. What Irony!
OWN GOAL!
Posted by ernie | April 23, 2008 3:56 PM
Posted on April 23, 2008 15:56
Ernie, are you a real human being? Because your comments never have any relation to what I’m actually writing about. Sometimes I just think you’re a comment bot.
Did you go read the article I linked to? Don’t you think its interesting that the Iranians, sponsors of terrorism, are now having problems with terrorism in their own country?
Posted by Pierce Wetter | April 23, 2008 4:23 PM
Posted on April 23, 2008 16:23
Ah, I see.
I missed that “Own Goal” thing at the end. You actually did comment on what I wrote about.
Yep, I can see how that’s true from your point of view.
Though just correcting your economics, its not clear that a “crashing dollar” is bad.
Fareed Zakaria has some interesting stuff you might like.
Posted by Pierce Wetter | April 23, 2008 4:28 PM
Posted on April 23, 2008 16:28