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22 January 2006, 04:05

As to your five points:

1.) The United States will not attack Iran at this juncture for the same reason that you can’t take all of the territories in the game "Risk" in one move: overextension. If we bomb the nuke plants, Iran & Syria will respond, and we need to commit ground forces to occupy these countries as well. We can’t pull forces out of Iraq yet, and there aren’t enough troops stateside to do it either, even if we give guns to the cooks and medics. The nation won’t stand for a draft, either, now that the war in Iraq has gone so horribly.

2.) The US will simply raise the debt ceiling, just like they did last year. The debt may be 8 1/2 trillion, but the payments are much less-around 450 million I think. If we have a GDP of 12 trillion, we could have a debt of around 200 trillion, which won’t happen for decades.

3.) This sounds like an urban legend, just like the one that went around about 15 years ago, where people were supposedly getting Social Security checks with "666" printed on them.

4.) This is another urban legend, one that has been around since the 80’s. A concentration camp with a million people? Come on.

5.) This one is actually true, and this is the real boogeyman that we should be afraid of.

PS: You other people, lay off the Jews. My girlfriend’s one.