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From: unsettled on 9 Nov 2006 22:38 T Wake wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:455395B2.B98BE126(a)hotmail.com... > >> >>T Wake wrote: >> >> >>>For credit points: What cease fire violations did Saddam commit? >> >>Didn't they 'lock on' to various flight with their AA radars a few times ? > > > Yes. Any AD radar activations within the NFZ were followed up by strikes as > were any AD radar which was suspected of painting Coalition aircraft. That used to be called "target illumination." When detected it is rightfully understood to be a threat. "Painting"? Now there's a bit of doublespeak for you.
From: Ken Smith on 9 Nov 2006 22:40 In article <f4p7l21a400mq09lf26tcq86s8gkv3q479(a)4ax.com>, JoeBloe <joebloe(a)nosuchplace.org> wrote: [....] > Name a foreign part in the M1 Abrams. Q401 That was easy. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 9 Nov 2006 22:55 In article <891f7$455158d2$49ecf6c$10929(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Ken Smith wrote: [....] >> Inventing some "golden age" in the past and claiming your aim is to >> restore it is a very common propaganda trick. The so called "christian >> right" does this all the time. > >Perhaps you're citing the Democrats who keep talking about >"change" without saying what that is. It seems to be a trick >with some results in today's elections. Here we go gain. If I wasn't so lazy I'd go find the links and post them. I seriously doubt that you have been living in a cave for the last year so you will have already heard the democrats explain what they mean by change. > >> Claiming that some popular hero in the past held the views you are >> advocating is also a common trick. Albert Einstein said that he really >> hated people who do this. > >"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already >earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, >since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This >disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. >Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how >despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to >shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction >that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of >murder." > >"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome >nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately >I hate them!" > >http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html > >Elsewhere I ran into some comment about his hatred of his >high school. > >Seems you've misappropriated Einstein for your own ends. There >weren't very many things the man hated. No doubt you'd have >qualified. I'm going to leave all of the above in place so that others can read it again and marvel. I used a bit humor to make a point about propaganda and you not only miss the point, you blathered on and on highlighting your misunderstanding. >Without Einstein the atomic bomb would have come later, so his >part in it killed a *lot* of people under the guise of war. >The fact is he and his lot wanted to drop the bomb on Europe, >but that war ended without it, leaving only the Pacific War >and Japan to on which to expend the bombs he helped to create. > >Your hot button post is devoid of substance. It only has >meaning to lemming followers where you're a popular figure. ROFLMAO You really don't get it do you? -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Eeyore on 9 Nov 2006 22:59 unsettled wrote: > T Wake wrote: > > > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:455395B2.B98BE126(a)hotmail.com... > > > >> > >>T Wake wrote: > >> > >> > >>>For credit points: What cease fire violations did Saddam commit? > >> > >>Didn't they 'lock on' to various flight with their AA radars a few times ? > > > > > > Yes. Any AD radar activations within the NFZ were followed up by strikes as > > were any AD radar which was suspected of painting Coalition aircraft. > > That used to be called "target illumination." When > detected it is rightfully understood to be a threat. > > "Painting"? So ? > Now there's a bit of doublespeak for you. What's your point ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 9 Nov 2006 23:00
Ken Smith wrote: > In article <f4p7l21a400mq09lf26tcq86s8gkv3q479(a)4ax.com>, > JoeBloe <joebloe(a)nosuchplace.org> wrote: > [....] > > Name a foreign part in the M1 Abrams. > > Q401 > > That was easy. LOL. What's always perplexed me is what Q is supposed to be short for. I use TR. And IC rather than U. Graham |