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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: 18 Jan 2025 18:19:19 -0000
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>It confused Saddam Hussein too, who thought the Americans were his ally
>>until the bombs actually started dropping.
>
>But ... but ... but ... the Shrub /had/ to remove the blot on the
>family eschuteon from his father's failure to remove Saddam in the
>early 90s.=20
>
>His good buddies, the Republicans, told him so.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

My suspicion is that his father will be known to history as one of the
best presidents of the 20th century in great part because he knew
when to get into a war and when to get out.  His son will be known as
one of the worse presidents because he didn't.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."