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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 11:45 AM
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Poll question: Is this t-shirt illegal?
http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/archive/082206.html

August 22, 2006 - O'Reilly sees anti-Bush t-shirt guy as "war profiteering"
Warning to readers who have just come out of
lengthy comas: In the year 2006, producers of highly
rated cable news programs are no longer able to
detect irony, have lost all sense of perspective, and
can no longer comprehend the meanings of
common English terms.



Okay, let’s begin.

Bill kicked off his program last night on a promising
note. Over the tagline “War Profiteering,” his camera
followed a man walking down the street being
questioned by his reporter: “How much money have
you made marketing death like this?”

Then Bill asked, “Is this man exploiting dead
American soldiers?”


I say 'no'. Solely because "it's just business" and how many companies could make big profits off of 9/11 memorabilia, some of which included coins minted from the metal used in the buildings' construction. Nobody questioned that at the time.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 11:48 AM
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1. wait a minute-- selling "Bush lied" T-shirts is "war profiteering...?"
Edited on Thu Sep-13-07 11:49 AM by mike_c
:rofl:

OMG-- wiping bits of exploded head from my monitor-- OMFG!
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jojo54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 11:52 AM
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4. Bwwwaahhhhhaaaaa!!!!
Make sure you get every bit now. Maybe you can put your brain back together and be as smart as Shrub!!!!! :rofl:
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 12:10 PM
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13. War resistance = war profiteering?
Somebody please hold that man down and give him a buttload of antipsychotics.

Please.
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jojo54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 11:50 AM
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2. Yeah, right!
From he who said (paraphrasing), let Petraeus have another year for improvements, after hearing the intelligence estimate of another 1,000 dead troops over the next year. Here's the video from K.O. last night (Billo was Worst Person In The World, of course) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

Whatever Billo. Go back to the sewer you came from.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 11:50 AM
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3. are you kidding me? he is now worried about war profiteers????
Edited on Thu Sep-13-07 11:51 AM by LSK
Maybe he should try Halliburtan, KBR, etc.

Someone should force him to watch Iraq for Sale!

What an ass!!!
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 11:55 AM
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5. What he's doing is trying to blur what a war profiteer actually is
Who knows, on people who tend to forget their own names it just may work. :shrug:
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 11:56 AM
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6. Casey Mears (NASCAR) #25
Has, on the trunk of his car, a list of all National Guard soldiers killed in OIF/OEF.

I can't find a picture of it, but I've seen it with my own two eyes.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 12:00 PM
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7. Do war profiteers often work at putting themselves out of business? nt
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 12:02 PM
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8. Sure. It's war profiteering.
In the same way the Vietnam War Memorial went back in time and killed all those people on its list, like the Terminator.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 12:09 PM
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10. Bornaginprofiterring
"Night comes too soon on the battlefield. For some men it comes permanently; their eyes never open to the light of day. But for this man, fighting this war, there is never total darkness. The spidery beams of light in the sky are the descendants of the modern laser beam—heat rays that sear through tungsten steel and flesh as though they were cheesecloth. And this soldier must go against those weapons. His name is Qarlo, and he is a footsoldier, the ultimate infantryman. Trained from birth by the State, he has never known love, or closeness, or warmth. He is geared for only one purpose: to kill the Enemy. And the Enemy waits for him..."

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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 12:04 PM
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9. No, but O'Lielly is
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cannabis_flower Donating Member (386 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 12:10 PM
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11. This from someone...
Edited on Thu Sep-13-07 12:11 PM by cannabis_flower
who doesn't have any problem with Halliburton? Or McDonald-Douglass?
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 12:10 PM
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12. thanks for an "Ah- Ha!!!" moment= no wonder the media pimps the war
it SELLS-

what a silly fool o'reily is.

Does he not profit from the deaths?


i have gone completely mad-:crazy:
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