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Just to keep you more informed, the Sanskrit word for war means "desire for more cows"........

Now we could get a whole modern day debate going based on the above statement.


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I believe in American the word means "desire for more oil"...
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I think that about does it then Rupert .....


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I'm sure this has been posted here before, but suddenly seems relevant.

A war has never been fought between two countries who both have a McDonalds.

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Couldn't find it, but good point about McDonalds.  It's bloody hard to put much effort into anything with diabolical indigestion.


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Reckon there must have been a MacDonalds in Baghdad?????? They've got them in Egypt so why not Iraq?
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You bored this morning Dennis?
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so does that mean that the key to world peace is the increased globalisation of fast food outlets?!
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interestingly the US militay has deployable Burger Kings and pizza huts which they send into theatre to keep the troops happy.  They also have a theory that you can feed your troops anything as long as they get ice cream for pud.
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