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Fun with Google: Food, Bombs or Both

(Is death-by-scary-carrot preferable to death-by-bombing?)

Tonight, we meet "Food Not Bombs" founder and International ANSWER "Coalition Co-Signer", Keith McHenry. Naturally, he appears to be a professional:

"It's a fact, the U.S. is a genocidal country," said Keith McHenry, one of eight people arrested Thursday when anti-war protesters demonstrated at the Raytheon Missile Systems plant here.

McHenry, who acknowledged that some people will call him a "lunatic," said he has protested U.S. action in Vietnam, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, East Timor, Panama and Kosovo.

He has a jolly sense of humor, too. (Adobe Acrobat document)

The radical group Food Not Bombs admitted recently that the ambiguity of its message, “Food Not Bombs”, could have contributed to the confusion of the Bush administration, which recently began both bombing and dropping food supplies on the country of Afghanistan.

“We did our best,” conceded Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry, “but we admit we speak a different language than the president and his analysts.”

The group is currently considering several new names as options, hoping to resolve any confusion, including “Food Not Stuff That Explodes”, “Food Not Stuff You Can’t Eat That Kills People,” and “No Bombs At All, You Stupid Git.”

Ah, lovely. Let's give the last word to Christopher Hitchens:

If you remember, there were also those who warned hysterically of a humanitarian disaster as a result of the bombing: a "silent genocide," as one Boston-area academic termed it. But to the contrary, the people of Afghanistan did not have to endure a winter with only the food and medicine that the primeval Taliban would have furnished them. They survived, and now the population has grown by almost 1.2 million, as refugees from the old, atrocious tyranny make their way home. Here is the first country in history to be bombed out of the Stone Age.

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