[hershey]

Well, I had a set-to with my Italian/American friend who thinks 9/11 happened because we keep sticking our noses into other people's business. She announced (when I said we intervened in Iraq to save them from a homicidal dictator who'd murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people, like Hitler), that Saddam was NOTHING like Hitler...who'd invaded other countries. I said what was Kuwait -- chopped liver? No answer.

As for Rwanda...she said that was another of our failures, but 'you can't do anything for those people. Like the Middle East.' We should just let 'those people' go to hell. She had no answer about 'those people' sitting on 90% of the world's oil supply. Evidently oil doesn't exist in her universe. As for Iraq and 9/11, 'Iraq had nothing to do with that. It's been proven.'

Asked about the 707 sitting in the Iraqi desert, used to train Al Qaeda, or that Saddam had aided and sheltered wounded bin Laden's henchman, no answer was forthcoming. When I suggested,'okay, what do we do now? We can't simply leave Iraq.' She said sarcastically, 'oh no we CAN'T leave Iraq.' There's no getting through to this woman. Although having become a US citizen (dual citizenship with Italy...she's married to an American), six years ago, she thinks of herself as Italian and always will. All those stereotypical cowardly, bumbling Italian soldiers in old WWII movies...it's genetic. Great food. Dumb people.

[Enduring Freedom]

Too many Italians are Socialist/Communist sympathizers.

It is in the blood.

But this Berlusconi guy, he's got what it takes!

[nuconvert]

And this is a friend?

[Bramuce]

Hey!!