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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:34 PM
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Tom DeLay: Is this Houston or Baghdad?
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:36 PM
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1. I'm not getting it.
Context?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:39 PM
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2. DeLay uses Houston to make point about Iraq news coverage
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3235606

"You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody'd go to Houston, because all this reporting coming out of the local press in Houston is violence, murders, robberies, deaths on the highways," DeLay said.
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:42 PM
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4. Ah, that old argument.
They did the same thing during Vietnam. "More people are killed in traffic accidents than US soldiers in Vietnam. Ergo, Vietnam is fine."
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:42 PM
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3. So hard to tell. Apparently Houston is a horrible place
And I must never go there.

At least, that's what Tom Delay is telling me.
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Andy_Stephenson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:55 PM
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5. Yes, Houston is a very bad place.
I would never live there.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:58 PM
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6. Hey! Good to see you!
:hi:
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