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Winston Churchill famously said that American and Britain were 2 countries divided by a common language nor more so is this true than when it comes to food. We can eat the same sort of things but at completely different times of the day and serve it with completely different type of food. A dessert in Britain is often looked upon as a breakfast dish in America. American cookies are similar to British biscuits, American biscuits are similar to British sconces. What is called a grill in England is a broiler in America. A stove is a cooker and a...

The American military has become like one of these couples that always goes on holiday to the same resort. There they are, sitting in the Pentagon, muttering: "We always bomb the same place, every year. This year we looked through the brochures and thought of bombing somewhere new, like Yemen or North Korea, but in the end we thought we'd play safe and stick with Iraq as usual." Because Saddam has acquired "weapons of mass destruction". Just now, at exactly the same time as the American military is on a roll and can justify anything it wants by pointing to...