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From: Bill Sloman on 3 Aug 2006 23:28 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht news:1fk4d2lo8bk5omkpm0ejjkclsgsf5r5oa8(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:08:25 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >>In return you got our 'golden jewels' utterly free of charge like radar >>and jet engines. > > --- > Hundreds of thousands of American lives lost fighting on your > behalf is hardly "free". You were fighting on your own behalf, and you didn't start fighting until it became clear that the Axis powers were as much of threat to you as they were to the U.K. and its colonies. You didn't get serious about invading Europe until it became clear that Russia was going to defeat the Germans, and you needed to prevent the Russians from grabbing most of continental Europe after they'd knocked out the German who were occupying it. As occupiers, you were less oppressive and destructive than the Russians would have been, but that is mainly because you wanted fancier goods than the Russians were interested in. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Phat Bytestard on 3 Aug 2006 23:30 On 3 Aug 2006 11:05:28 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org Gave us: >I am surprised that the Phat Bytestard got the joke - he's performing >above his regular level of competence. Now let's see if he knows what >two plus two equals .. > >In the meantime, John Fields needs to raise his game - nothing the >Phathead can follow is exactly subtle. I was runnin' racks, and makin' cracks back in '71, dufus. I got more on the ball than you ever had, and of course, old man, ever will have. Rack 'em, chump! You lose!
From: Phat Bytestard on 3 Aug 2006 23:38 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:31:18 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> Gave us: >Nothing much. >Most likely the EU would feel itself obliged to spend more on its >military and integrate itself a bit more tightly on foreign policy. > >Oh... and Israel would disappear down the historical plughole. > >That's about it. You're an idiot. Had we not entered WW II NONE of the current circumstances would even be in place right now, dumbass. IF you were ever born, you would likely be speaking Russian if we weren't here.
From: Phat Bytestard on 3 Aug 2006 23:40 On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:35:53 +0100, John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> Gave us: >In message <spd4d2p94a17j8g2sfqo5rp33c28mp37m2(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 >Aug 2006, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> writes >>Think about this: What do you think would happen if we weren't here? > >The oceans would drain away into the hole? The hole that leads to the hollow inside of the Earth, where Hitler fled? Bwuahahahah! Some idiots actually believe that.
From: John Larkin on 3 Aug 2006 23:52
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:26:05 GMT, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> wrote: >>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. Full of American food, vehicles, fuel, and ammo. Britain imported 70% of its food just before the war, and had no substantial domestic source of avaition fuel. Texas saved England, and England prefers not to remember. John |