"On the other hand, I have."

[ebonlock]

I try to tune into 60 Minutes when I'm actually home on a Sunday evening, and I always watch straight through to the end with Andy Rooney's piece. I don't always agree with him, but I usually at least respect where he's coming from. I found last night's piece on France and the upcoming conflict with Iraq intriguing:
"France's Unpaid Debt"

And an interesting conglomeration of facts and figures for those interested:
http://www.eriposte.com/war_peace/iraq/iraq-scoreboard.htm

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait. The country that didn't want to get into WWII because they had lucrative contracts with the Nazi government (And the same country that sold THE EVIL SATANIC DICTATOR most of his war technology) is complaining about the business entanglements of the French?
And the country that is no longer a British protectorate because the French sent battle support thinks they're not showing enough gratitude for D-Day?

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait. The country that didn't want to get into WWII because they had lucrative contracts with the Nazi government (And the same country that sold THE EVIL SATANIC DICTATOR most of his war technology) is complaining about the business entanglements of the French?

Today's secret word is "hypocrisy"...

Oh and I adored this little gem from Rupert Murdoch regarding the "just" and "moral" decision to invade Iraq: "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country." Apparently he's of the opinion that "...the price of oil would be one of the war's main benefits."

So what if hundreds of thousands of people die? As long as we can all fill up for less at the pump, that's the important thing.

And he wonders why his FOX news team got ejected from Iraq...

But back to Mr. Rooney, I was particularly intrigued by his commentary because of it's provocative end. So does Mr. Rooney oppose the war? And if he does, why be so circumspect about it? Have his overloards at CBS told him to tow the line, much as they did after 9/11? It does leave me wondering.