B.O.T. to "No No / Go Go"

Beginning of Time

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Universe forms -- date unknown

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"Earth" breaks away from sun, cools

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"Moon" breaks away from Earth, cools

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War To End All Wars starts -- Middle East divided up in Paris by old white men

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World War II -- 50 million die -- Middle East largely, wisely, sits this one out

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Cold War -- Middle East forgotten by two global powers

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Vietnam War -- Middle East still not thought of much

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Energy Crisis -- "Help Us!!!" -- they remember -- they get rich

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Soviets invade "Afghanistan" -- not really a country so much as a region

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Infighting in Moscow, Soviets never 100% committed to effort

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Soviets defeated by nomads, who are given billions by US government

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After Russians leave region billions in weapons and graft left behind

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Divided up by largely illiterate nomads, who then start to kill each other

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medium sized nation of Iraq invades tiny nation of Kuwait -- Why?

Possiblities:

1. Their king is bored

2. Their king is afraid he'll be deposed if he doesn't

3. "No No!" "Go Go?"

4. US companies excited by possibliity of wartime economic boost

5. All of the above

6. Unknown

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Bush I decides to kick Iraq's ass -- is criticized and praised equally

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Whitney sings our national anthem prior to G-Men vs Bills Super Bowl

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Iraq gets their butts kicked by U.S. troops

Absolute slaughter: hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi boys, U.S. loses a couple of hundred boys

Iraqi Army on run back to Baghdad

Bush I - "Halt!"

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U.S. spends a trillion on war -- FUN!