Posted on 08/01/2007 6:21:40 PM PDT by blam
Imagine a whole country whose HMO is CIGNA.
Good editing.
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Read more carefully. They couldn’t do the surgery because there were no anesthetics available. By the time anesthetics became available, gangrene had already set in so all they could do was amputate.
Should we not learn from these escapades and remove the Administration’s abilities to intrude on a foreign government’s business when those actions have little to no impact on our nation? The current Congress did a good thing by denying furtherance of the Administration’s trade policy powers (NAFTA, CAFTA, etc.) but follies like this and Clinton’s BlackHawk foray into Somalia should never be seen again.
Seriously - we should have seen Bin Laden swinging from a rope long before Saddam Hussein did, yet that bastard seems to still be out there mocking our 90% Iraq/10% Afghanistan military policy.
“They couldn’t operate to save the leg because there were no anesthetics but they could amputate the leg? What did they use for anesthetics?”
During the Civil War, they did always have anesthetics. The idea was to do it as quick as possible.
“they did always”
Make that “they did not always.”
Things that could help Zimbabwe, move the United Nations there it’s about to be refurbished anyway. I think the United Nations now is mostly staffed by third world people so they would fit right in. I would imagine there is plenty of office space available at a great rate. Oh yeah, and pass a law that the Kennedy clan has to go there for their medical needs. They keep their money out of the country off shore anyway. Oh yeah, Bill O’Reilly is a racially sensitive person (with very thin skin). Bill wouldn’t mind going over there and kicking in a few dollars to use their medical facilities.
There's an old phrase to describe it: "Africa Wins Again". Google it sometime
A nation is not a piece of geography. It's a set of people and the culture they share. For a time, parts of the Western nations tried to turn parts of Africa into places that resembled the West, but the Africans didn't buy into the concept
In the United States, we successfully transplanted part of the West onto new soil, but the means used to do so were too drastic to be repeated in Africa
Perhaps the Chinese will have the stomach for drastic measures if they decide to take over
Amen
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