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Bill Maher: Why should we let bygones be bygones with Vietnam?
Star Tribune ^ | September 21, 2004 MAHER0921 | Bill Maher

Posted on 09/22/2004 10:19:57 AM PDT by JesseJane

Let's stop refighting the Vietnam War on the campaign trail and refight it where it'll do some good: in Vietnam. That's right, let's stop mucking around and just ... reinvade Vietnam.

I don't know if you've been listening lately, but it turns out we're pretty obsessed with the place.

People don't talk this much about Vietnam even in Vietnam. I feel bad for Iraq. Usually when a war gets that little attention, it involves Africans. We Americans need to work out our Vietnam "issues," and like all nuanced, complicated questions, there's really just one simple answer, and it drops from the belly of a plane. Sorry, Vietnam, but if we can have preemptive war, we can have postmortem war.

Remember what Dick Cheney says: America must make no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them -- and those who do not!

Now, some of you are saying, Bill, we can't bomb Vietnam. Who's going to make our sneakers? [snip]

That's why they call it Vietnam. I know that we didn't win it last time -- but we will this time because, if you read the papers, you'll see that since Vietnam we've mastered this whole guerrilla insurgency thing. Plus, Vietnam doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction or any links to 9/11 or any ties to Al-Qaida. They're practically asking for it!

But this isn't about them anyway. It's about us, and our need for closure and completion and all that other stuff Dr. Phil talks about.

This will allow us to move forward, into a shining future, so that decades from now, the president -- whichever of the Bush twins it is -- can say: Our national nightmare is truly over. Vietnam is behind us. Now let's go kick the heck out of Peru.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: appallingdems; bastard; beheading; billmaher; joke; tasteless
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Maher. Funny as a bloody stump.
1 posted on 09/22/2004 10:19:58 AM PDT by JesseJane
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To: JesseJane

Translation: "Why can't we all please vote for Kerry."


2 posted on 09/22/2004 10:21:23 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: JesseJane

"...just ... reinvade Vietnam."

What he is really saying is "...look at me, I don't read books!"


3 posted on 09/22/2004 10:21:48 AM PDT by SMARTY ('Stay together, pay the soldiers, forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus, to his sons)
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To: JesseJane


4 posted on 09/22/2004 10:25:38 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: JesseJane

Bill Maher is a total waste of air and hair. This week he made jokes about Americans and others being beheaded in Iraq.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223536/posts

Bill Maher Jokes About Beheadings
Laura Ingrahm Radio ^ | 10-22-04 | Laura Ingraham Caller


Posted on 09/22/2004 7:37:17 AM PDT by CaptSkip


Caller to Laura Ingraham described a joke by Bill Maher on last nights show about the "Iraqi Head-Collecting Service" being backed-up.

Bill Maher Jokes About Beheadings
Laura Ingrahm Radio ^ | 10-22-04 | Laura Ingraham Caller

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223536/posts




5 posted on 09/22/2004 10:26:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop Rathering to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: JesseJane

Democraps want to stop talking about Vietman ONLY because their candidate is becoming a laughing stock over the issue.


6 posted on 09/22/2004 10:31:03 AM PDT by Mr. K
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To: Chode

Gaaaaahhhhh

Imgine what a better place the world would be without those 4 idiots.


7 posted on 09/22/2004 10:35:42 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: JesseJane
At least you know which side Mayher would have been on in the French & Indian war
The Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, The Civil War, The Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Desert Storm, and Iraqi Freedom and a host of wars and interdiction's our troops have engaged to free men from tyrants...

The anti war socialists goal is to disarm America and to steal away the will to fight from each generation...surrender to the global socialist government is their goal...

They are the enemies of our national soul....

Yet we make them idols because of our insatiable desire to be entertained...by them

imo
8 posted on 09/22/2004 10:35:47 AM PDT by joesnuffy
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To: JesseJane

Bill is truley an asshole!


9 posted on 09/22/2004 10:36:43 AM PDT by Big Mack (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain TO EAT VEGETABLES!)
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To: JesseJane

Sure why not, hasn't our cutting and running left enough hundreds of thousands of dead?


10 posted on 09/22/2004 10:37:02 AM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: JesseJane

Bill is truley an asshole!


11 posted on 09/22/2004 10:38:51 AM PDT by Big Mack (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain TO EAT VEGETABLES!)
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To: Allan

Bump


12 posted on 09/22/2004 10:42:28 AM PDT by Allan
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To: JesseJane

Somebody please set off a loud alarm bell the minute Maher says ANYTHING even remotely funny.

No wonder all these so called "comedians" like Maher, and Al Franken became left-wing political hatchet men. Its because they had no future as actual comedians.


13 posted on 09/22/2004 10:43:11 AM PDT by UncleSamUSA (the land of the free and the home of the brave)
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To: Mr. K

You nailed it. They loved Vietnam while Kerry was a 'hero' and Bush was 'AWOL'. Not that the truth is emerging, they want to put it aside. Can we classify this as another flip-flop from the mushy left?


14 posted on 09/22/2004 10:56:28 AM PDT by thecanuck
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...it turns out we're pretty obsessed with the place.

Leave me out of that "we," please. It was a moot issue until aging antiwar activists started trying to relive their golden days through the Kerry campaign. It was a fun issue until - mirabile dictu! - the guys who laid down for a thrashing in the 70s started to hit back. Now it's not so much fun anymore and guys like Maher want it to go away. And it will. On 3 November.

15 posted on 09/22/2004 10:56:56 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: JesseJane

I am all for letting legumes be legumes, but Kerry has to pay for what he did.


16 posted on 09/22/2004 10:58:42 AM PDT by paulklenk (FOUR MORE WARS!)
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To: finnman69
the collective IQ of the RATS would prolly jump up 50 points!!!
17 posted on 09/22/2004 11:38:08 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: JesseJane; sauropod

Ah, Bill Maher. He's got an ego as big as his nose, and a writing talent as small as his penis.


18 posted on 09/22/2004 11:41:43 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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LOL....Billy Maher is a talking zit


20 posted on 09/22/2004 12:29:01 PM PDT by kingattax
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