can you say "joke". jeezus, don't you know a good satire when you see it. i still think a public hanging is in order. simple people needs simple imagery. people under tyranny and pseudo-"theocracy" are just ignorant you have to face facts. they understand death. it's real to them. but you may as well face the catch 22, if you fight in the middle east you cause war. if you don't fight in the middle east you have absolute tyrannical rule, you have international gouging (have you seen the price of petrol lately?) and you have alot of infighting causing thousands and even millions of lives to be lost, not to mention the loss of property, money, and goods. peace in the mid east is a pipedream, getting saddam out of office was a good thing, but i think even if we did set up a US government clone, it would soon be corrupted to the point of collapse, that's just what happens over there. granted there are a few countries who have their shit together, israel comes to mind immidiately and there are a several others, but the majority of the well governed countries are emirites so i mean who is there to rule over exactly? at least we can say we tried, and to really give it ago strike some fear into the hearts of men. you don't respect what you don't fear. it's a fact. you respect fire because it burns you respect water because the second you don;t it will kill you, and you respect your boss so he doesn't fire you ass. same song second verse, a little bit louder, and a little bit worse. c'est la vi. peace(in the western hemisphere anyways) love and marijuana sauce...