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From: Eeyore on 3 Aug 2006 23:00 John Larkin wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:49:04 -0700, Jim Thompson > <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > > >Yep. Time to attack "England" ;-) > > If we can find it. It's the 'southern bit' of that island called Britain. Graham
From: Phat Bytestard on 3 Aug 2006 23:14 On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:56:40 +0100, "Reg Edwards" <g4fgq.regp(a)ZZZbtinternet.com> Gave us: > destroy the police force and the army, the >power stations, They never had a police force. All they had was Saddam's army, and yes, that had to be dismantled, dumbass.
From: Phat Bytestard on 3 Aug 2006 23:22 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:33:28 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> Gave us: >On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:53:39 +0100, Eeyore ><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>Don Bowey wrote: >> >>> On 8/2/06 10:02 PM, in article 44D1834D.314D1A6B(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com, >>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > I'm wondering if it wouldn't have made more sense for Britain to have made >>> > peace with Germany on the condition that France was un-occupied and >>> the > 3 countries would rule a New >>> Europe. >>> > >>> > We could have quietly had Hitler assasinated so many of the Jews would have >>> > lived and Russia would have quietly taken the hint and kept out of the way. >>> > >>> > Had we gone that way, I reckon it's likely that half the globe would be >>> > 'European' now ( think of the combined overseas territories of the former >>> > colonial powers ) and the USA would simply be a colony again ! >>> >>> >>> Dream on. My only comment is that this would be a very different world had >>> the US not entered into the war in Europe. >> >>You're deluding yourself about possible scenarios. It was WW2 that made the USA a >>world power. Without it you'd still be a backwater. >> > >That's mostly true. The US was always isolationalist, especially so >after WWI. Being pulled into WWII built up the military, occupying and >rebuilding Europe and Japan kept us involved, and taking over the >defense of the West kept up the military investment. The Islamic >confrontation is taking over, now that communism has mostly petered >out. > >It's always something. > On the morrow, it will be enrichment facilities. They cannot be allowed to remain. Mark my words... Iran's nuke program is going to get put on pause, and it will be decades before all of Islam wakes up from the stupidity that they have allowed a few extremist factions among them pull. Next on the list is N. Korea, and then Pakistan has to get back down off their high horse as well.
From: Phat Bytestard on 3 Aug 2006 23:26 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:41:37 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> Gave us: >On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:28:13 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax ><dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>John Larkin wrote: >>> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:32:13 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax >>> <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Michael A. Terrell wrote: >>>>> Eeyore wrote: >>>>>> Don Bowey wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 8/2/06 10:02 PM, in article 44D1834D.314D1A6B(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com, >>>>>>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm wondering if it wouldn't have made more sense for Britain to have made >>>>>>>> peace with Germany on the condition that France was un-occupied and >>>>>>> the > 3 countries would rule a New >>>>>>> Europe. >>>>>>>> We could have quietly had Hitler assasinated so many of the Jews would have >>>>>>>> lived and Russia would have quietly taken the hint and kept out of the way. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Had we gone that way, I reckon it's likely that half the globe would be >>>>>>>> 'European' now ( think of the combined overseas territories of the former >>>>>>>> colonial powers ) and the USA would simply be a colony again ! >>>>>>> Dream on. My only comment is that this would be a very different world had >>>>>>> the US not entered into the war in Europe. >>>>>> You're deluding yourself about possible scenarios. It was WW2 that made the USA a >>>>>> world power. Without it you'd still be a backwater. >>>>>> >>>>>> Graahm >>>>> >>>>> England wouldn't exist. A "Backwater" country could not have >>>>> converted all of its industry to war materials, food, and medical >>>>> supplies, or supplied so many trained solders in several generations, >>>>> you little brain dead rag doll. The US was already a power to be >>>>> reckoned with, but we were minding our own business. When push came to >>>>> shove, we shoved, and won. You can whine, lie and cry all you want, but >>>>> the facts are the facts. You could not have produced the steel, >>>>> aluminum, copper and other needed metals in large enough quantities in >>>>> time to build anything on the scale needed to win a World War. >>>> What would likely have happened would be that the Germany would have >>>> exhauseted itself beating the Russians. >>> >>> Without direct US aid, the UK would have lost the Battle of Britian - >>> it was won by a razor-edge margin - and the invasion would have been >>> on, and likely successful. Hitler only turned east when Goring >>> couldn't subdue the RAF. >> >>That would still have been the position if the US had stayed out of the >>European war. >> >>>> The British Empire would have had time to fully militarise, >>> >>> They were fully militarized early in the war. Their resources were >>> very limited. >> >>Not so. >>Britain was not 'up to speed' until 1943. >>The resources of the Empire would have taken longer to fully utilise for >>the war. India alone could have supplied men for an army of millions >>given time. >> >>Dirk > >England would have starved if the US Navy hadn't been helping the >convoys, loaded with American food and ammo, get through. Those >millions of Indian troops couldn't have reached Britain, and would >have had nothing to eat and nothing to shoot if they had swum all the >way. Germany was just too far ahead in militarization, and the U-boats >were too good. > Yes. We escorted hundreds of ships.
From: Phat Bytestard on 3 Aug 2006 23:27
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:53:08 +0100, John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> Gave us: >In message <34c4d2p7opp8cvr997gvhfnm0sf7047gsn(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 >Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> >writes >>the grass-roots likability of most Americans. > >As manifested by the personal abuse levelled at any dissenter in this >and many other threads? If it looks like a duck... |