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Again I Have To Laugh
Reader comment on item: Turkey, Still a Western Ally?
in response to reader comment: Our "stick" is bigger.
Submitted by Seamus MacNemi (United States), Dec 5, 2007 at 22:34
When can we put all this silly dancing charade behind us and get on with the living of our lives? When will all you "LITTLE BOYS:" stop playing with your 'sticks' and get down to some real business? Hasn't it dawned on any of you that all this bluff and bluster is going nowhere?
Does this nonsense feed anyone? NO! Does any of it put clothes on anybodys back? NO! Does it cure disease? NO!
None of any of this does anything to improve the lives of the people you all claim to love. Or maybe you don't really love anybody, you just want to play the bigshot and wave your stick in the faces of the world. ...
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