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>>>>>>>>>We also need to remember that the Towers were a global attack as more than 90 countries lost people in the attack, excluding the hijackers; while the Pentagon was an attack on America only.
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>>>>>>>>That is true as far as is goes but IMO the World Trade Center was a direct attack on American capitalism. At the time I wondered why they didn't hit the Statue of Liberty instead. It wasn't liberty they were attacking. It was capitalism and western values.
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>>>>>>>>I am basically a pacifist but some days I wish we would drop some big ones on the Middle East and leave nothing behind but sand.
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>>>>>>>and I'm a firm believer that we should 'build a wall' around the Middle East and let them figure it out and then go talk to them in about 100 years.
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>>>>>>How you gonna get the oil out ?
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>>>>>A big straw? ( cf "There will be Blood" - "I drink your milkshake")
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>>>>What is that ? I found a UTube clip but......
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>>>Daniel Day Lewis movie about an early oil wildcatter. He is explaining to his son how to drill at an angle for somebody else's oil while they are in a soda shop and he takes his straw and puts it in his son's milkshake ...
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>>>Pretty good movie
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>>Doesn't sound like the clip I found - which was someone beating someone else to death the a bowling pin :-{
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>Yeah I guess that would have made my reference pretty weird. I had this in mind
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>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/

Thx, that makes more sense :-}
Had a brother-in-law who was a wild catter in Texas (as his father and grandfather before him). Sometimes seemed to be rolling in money, sometimes broke. I never worked it out.....