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Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I was going to post a new topic, but I'm really sick of getting into political discussions so desided a musing would be enough as I don't need responses but I felt like sharing.
 
Would it be too much for the President to make a public apology? We were told that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction and intentions to use them. To date we have found a Seren gas shell and non-weapons grade nuclear material. The 9/11 Comission has revelealed that the CIA was using faulty and extremely inaccurate intelligence.
 
The President lied (unbeknownst to him) not to just the country but the whole world. The United Nations simply wanted more time to find these alleged weapons. The US refused to wait and invaded. While Iraq is, debatably, better than it was, at what cost did this improvement come?
 
I'm glad Iraq no longer has Sadam. I'm glad that the people no longer need to fear being dragged into basements and tortured. But I'm upset that the justifications used to go in were nothing but faulty intelligence reports.
 
And so, I feel like Bush owes an apology to the international community.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
In the GURPS "Firefly" (sci-fi) campaign that I'm in, our ship landed on our doctor's home planet. He was immeadiately kidnapped by the locals and moved to a secret location. The rest of the crew did some digging and discovered that our seemingly poor doctor was the son of the richest family on the planet. He had inherited everything, but had been declared dead by the trustee so he could keep everything (the doctor hadn't been on the planet for 7 years, he ran off to fight for the losers of the browncoat/alliance war and was thought to be dead).
 
So the group assaults the place he's being held, frees him and rushes towards the hospital (while being pursued) so he can be genetically scanned and have his identity confirmed when this thoughtful, sensitive exchange took place:
 
Doctor: Where are we going? Why did those men kidnap me? What's going on?!?
 
Engineer: Your old buddy planned on killing you to keep you from inheriting your family's empire and taking it from him. You're rich! You own half this planet! Isn't that shiny?
 
Doctor: Wait ... my parents are dead?
 
Engineer: Um, yeah. Sorry about that. I guess I kinda skipped past that part.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 

There has been a staggering amount of change in the past couple of weeks. It's been disconcerting to me as well, and while it's not necessarily bad it's going to take a long time to get used to. I'm still having a hard time visually figuring out who everybody is with the new avatars (that's one reason I kept Blue Beetle, even if it's a different picture)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 

There has been a staggering amount of change in the past couple of weeks. It's been disconcerting to me as well, and while it's not necessarily bad it's going to take a long time to get used to. I'm still having a hard time visually figuring out who everybody is with the new avatars (that's one reason I kept Blue Beetle, even if it's a different picture)