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An editorial "cartoon" from El Pais today:

Once upon a time there was a king of Persia who decided to throw an atomic bomb on Copenhagen due to his displeasure over a Danish caricature of Mohammed.

The Queen of Denmark and mother of Hamlet, Mrs. Freedom of Expression, begged her colleagueElizabeth of England to throw another nuclear device on Tehran, which the sobereign did with enthusiasm crying "blood, sweat and tears!" and supported by Bush II of the USA who, in solidarity with the Kings and Queens of Christendom, threw another bomb over Baghdad and a smaller one over Havana.

And thus began World War III, with the patriotic participation of 54 countries and the heroic sacrifice of 300 million dead people, or more.

In addition, the philosopher Huntington wrote a prophetic book called "I told you so".

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Feb 5th, 2006 at 04:38:18 PM EST

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