The answer to RW spam/chain emails

Send this one back at them. Btw, this has met all of the fact checking requirements for such emails:

Ronald Reagan's warning to George W!

David Huckleberry, the former personal diarist of late Ronald Reagan, related this story to a close friend. His friend couldn't keep this a secret:

When Ronnie was in the last throughs of Alzheimers, he still had some very lucid moments. His legendary recall of names, facts and places came back to him, albeit in fleeting moments. One night in Santa Barbara he called out to David at 3am. He told David to "get that Bush kid on the phone" (that was his name for George W. Bush).

David told him that it was the middle of the night. Couldn't it wait? But Ronnie insisted. So David got patched through to the western white house in Texas. David, wanted to know what was so important that it couldn't wait until morning and he also had come to recognize the moments when Ronnie was 'his old self.' He listened as the two leaders talked. This is what he heard:

"Whatever you do, don't occupy Iraq! You will regret it if you do. No country in history has been able to occupy and hold a foreign nation without bringing about it's own demise. We knew this when we got the soviets to invade Afghanistan. We knew that if we kept them there long enough, the Soviet Union would go bankrupt. And it worked. Don't fall into the same trap! The fate of this great nation is at stake. Don't occupy Iraq!"

The call ended. But David was forever struck by what he had heard. Years later he found he could not keep this to himself. If Ronnie was to give this nation one final gift, this would be it. So David wrote this story and began to send it to everyone who would listen.

You can help this country benefit from the last nugget of Ronald Reagan's wisdom. Forward this email to at least 6 people in the next 20 minutes. Do it now. Make a wish and say "Saint Teresa" Spin around 5 times in a circle and then press "Send." You're wish will come true within 10 days.

Republicans to send it to!

Trudy
www.pryorsplanet.com

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Perfect!

And I have found that TONS of people have NO CLUE about how to judge whether information is credible or not.

"realistic" last name, and I'd change the last paragraph to read like this:

You can help this country benefit from the last nugget of Ronald Reagan's wisdom. Forward this email to at least 6 people in the next 20 minutes. Do it now. The future of America depends on your action.

It's the perfect response to the superstitious endings of all fundie forwards. :hi:

"“Trying to eliminate Saddam... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible... we would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq... there was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see, violating another of our principles... Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."----- George HW Bush

had some experience in this area) -- he sure as hell was chuckling at the late night call from Ronnie Raygun, chalking it up to yet another daffy senior former president who didn't know jack.

"resting", he doesn't give a shit who is on the phone or at the front door. Otherwise, it's a good story.

:rofl:

I used to get spam from a repub group in some state I've never been in, but haven't in quite some time. Now I'm hoping that I do so I can hit "reply all" and send this out :D

Then you hit back with "neither is the crap you've been spamming"