[kj] Congrats Obama

[Brendan]

I implicitly understand the issue of Kuwait stealing oil from under Iraqi
territory...

I have to come clean and admit that whenever me and any of my girlfriends
did that cute picturesque thing where we shared a milkshake with a straw
each, that I purposely deformed my girlfriend's straw to create a finer
aperture, furthermore I held her side of the milkshake shaker when I
brought it to the table, thus warming it in relation to mine and reducing
the viscosity of the milkshake on that side, which I then proceeded to
insert my standard-aperture straw into, with the result that it was more
readily suckable and a larger amount could be consumed per period (x) of
time. I further admit that, to use somewhat common vernacular, I "sucked
really hard." Thus I afforded myself, through several forms of guile, a
disproportionate amount of milkshake, which with the benefit of hindsight
I truly regret, not the least for the ensuing milkshake headache and
resultant involuntary public gurning.

(In my defence, or mitigation, I have been larger than all of my
girlfriends and indeed have almost always purchased >=51% of any mutual
milkshakes)



>    To make a clean moral issue a little murkier (sorry),

> Kuwait was also stealing

> some of Iraq's oil from the Kuwaiti side of the border.

>    I read a news report a just few years ago that some Brit

> firm confirmed the serial

> numbers on some Kuwaiti drilling rigs along the Kuwait/Iraq

> border designed to drill

> into the ground and siphon off the oil below from an angle,

> ifyouknowwhatimean.....

>

>  

> ... ... ... ... ... ...

> (looking at the current state of things)

>

> 'Save

> me..                                                

>  save me from

> Tomorrow..                 

>         

>  I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...!'  

>

> --- On Wed, 6/4/08, Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com> wrote:

>

> From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>

> Subject: Re: [kj] Congrats Obama

> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"

> <gathering at misera.net>

> Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 3:49 PM

>

> You got it, Oliver. Also, here's another little thing the mainstream media

> fails to mention: Saddam went into Kuwait in 1990 because, essentially,

> our

> government told him he could.

> Sorry, Mik, but this country was happy to look the other way while Saddam

> killed his own people, because he was "our SOB" during the 1980s.

> And none of that will ever justify the invasion of Iraq.

>

> kw.

> San Diego

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"

> <gathering at misera.net>

> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:24 PM

> Subject: Re: [kj] Congrats Obama

>

>

> > When he was massacring his own people, a lot of that was done with US

> > support. Also, the targets of one of his pogroms were the Kurds,

> whose

> > plight the US really played up in the lead-up to Gulf War 1. The

> Kurds are

>

> > also being massacred by US ally Turkey, which has US air bases in its

> > southeast. We should overthrow them, too, no?

> >

> > -Oliver

> >

> >

> > Mik Raven wrote:

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >> Is it just me, or does eveyone forget how Saddam was a genosidal

> despot

> >> who was quite happy to massacre his own people?

> >>

> >

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