From: krw on
In article <4568EAD6.D7880662(a)hotmail.com>,
rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says...
>
>
> krw wrote:
>
> > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net says...
> > > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
> > >>kensmith(a)green.rahul.net says...
> > > >
> > > >> "shock and aw" == terrorism
> > > >
> > > >No, it's war. You want to shock the enemy into submission. To do
> > > >otherwise is inhumane. More will be killed, eventually.
> > >
> > > It is using fear to reach a political goal.
> >
> > To instill fear in the opponent's ARMY rather than civilian
> > population.
>
> You reckon bombing Baghdad was meant to instill fear in the Iraqi *ARMY* ? Funny way
> to go about it.

Dunb donkey, Baghdad wasn't carpet-bombed. Only
command/control/military installations were targeted.

It would have been easier to nuke the place; one sortie from
Kansas; all done. It wasn't done was it dumb donkey.

--
Keith






>
From: krw on
In article <4568F0E0.FFDBC0D3(a)hotmail.com>,
rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says...
>
>
> Don Bowey wrote:
>
> > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Heck, they even go to war so Bechtel and Halliburton can pick up uncontested
> > > contracts.
> > >
> > > Graham
> >
> > You just went to the top my extreme-nonsense-author list.
>
> You reckon the need for re-construction wasn't considered until after the event ?
>
> Why were British companies excluded from tendering ?

US money => US law => US company. Dumb donkey!

--
Keith
From: lucasea on

<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
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> In article <ek7d1r$r6e$22(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>,
> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote:
>>In article <ek6p6d$8ss_003(a)s989.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>In article <4565BA66.1AE61881(a)hotmail.com>,
>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm told
>>>>> that a successful socialist economy is in Sweden. I have to study
>>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>>It's called social democracy.
>>>
>>>I know. The fact that the word democracy has to be included gives
>>>me a slight warning.
>>>
>>>> All of the European 'lbour' parties embrace the
>>>>concept more or less.
>>>
>>>Yes and that's a serious problem when independent thinking
>>>and action is required.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
>>>>
>>>>" The prime example of social democracy is Sweden, which prospered
>>>considerably
>>>>in the 1990s and 2000s [1]. Sweden has produced a strong economy from
>>>>sole
>>>>proprietorships up through to multinationals (e.g., Saab, Ikea, and
>>>Ericsson),
>>>>while maintaining one of the longest life expectancies in the world, low
>>>>unemployment, inflation, infant mortality, national debt, and cost of
>>living,
>>>>all while registering sizable economic growth. "
>>>
>>>What bothers me about this is that there is only a few companies.
>>>There are many ways to measure cost of living. If they included
>>>all the taxes it would be very high.
>>>
>>>/BAH
>>How about "quality of life"? The US usually ranks near the bottom of
>>western
>>nations. Why must it always be about money to right-wingers?
>
> I am getting more and more convinced that this "quality of life"
> comparison is getting to mean no obligation to make one's own decisions.
> A high QoL means no decisions at all. This is getting to be more
> in line with the way Islam works.

Wow. You managed to cram all three of your idiotic paranoid assumptions
into a single cohesive paragraph. Nice job!

Eric Lucas


From: lucasea on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> Socialism does get communistic if the administration covers a
>> >> large geographic and/or population density. There isn't any
>> >> other way to "control" renegades who don't like to be told
>> >> what to do all the time.
>> >
>> >What nonsense is this now ?
>> >
>> >Where *do* you get these ideas ?
>>
>> I think about what I read.
>
> You'r reading garbage in that case.

I suspect the other half of that sentence is at least as important as what
she reads in leading her to such a warped view of how the world works.

Eric Lucas


From: lucasea on

<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> You cannot do this. It does simplify anything but does create
> fictions.

....and if there's anybody in this thread that knows about creating fictions,
it would be you.


> What you were trying to do is discuss why the apple falls from
> the tree based on the assumption that pigs do fly.

....and if there's anybody in this thread that knows about false and
irrelevant assumptions, it would be you.

Eric Lucas