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From: joseph2k on 4 Aug 2006 01:24 Jim Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:25:58 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>Jim Thompson wrote: >>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:59:22 +0100, Eeyore >>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hell, ship them to England and let Eeyore rehabilitate them. That >>>>> way he can find out first hand exactly the kind of being he is >>>>> defending. >>>> Some of them *have* been returned to England where they *live* ! >>> >>> Oh, really? I didn't know we'd snagged any Brits pretending to be >>> terrorists. >>> >>>> I'm defending the rule of law which the USA seems to find convenient to >>>> forget about when it suits you. >>>> >>>> Graham >>> >>> Please cite the "rule of law which the USA seems to find convenient to >>> forget". >> >>Various Geneva Conventions, which IIRC your Supreme Court has recently >>called Bush to task for. >> >>Dirk > > Wait until we pass a law stating that, when fighting combatants that > don't fight under the Geneva Convention rules, we don't have to either > ;-) > > ...Jim Thompson Even if you could pass it, it would get struck down; we have to keep pretending that we are the good guys even though it is obvious that the whole thing is at the behest of big oil. Watch the money flow. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: Don Bowey on 4 Aug 2006 01:39 On 8/3/06 8:52 PM, in article ctg5d25shks5iqhppentfg521cpm6io0pq(a)4ax.com, "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > 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 > I believe we should not fall into the trap of thinking the few USA bashers here represent their countries. They really are insignificant in the scheme of things. Don
From: joseph2k on 4 Aug 2006 01:58 John Fields wrote: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:59:22 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: >> >>> Hell, ship them to England and let Eeyore rehabilitate them. That >>> way he can find out first hand exactly the kind of being he is >>> defending. >> >>Some of them *have* been returned to England where they *live* ! >> >>I'm defending the rule of law which the USA seems to find convenient to >>forget about when it suits you. > > --- > Extraordinary measures are called for during times of war. > > That is what Hitler, Goebles, and Goering preached. Do you really want the US to go there? -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: John Woodgate on 4 Aug 2006 01:50 In message <l6o4d25uudapc5fnu5k4jabpcmv50av99m(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> writes >And it selectively attracts jerks. It's the electricity, you know. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: John Woodgate on 4 Aug 2006 01:55
In message <fep4d2pnbc1sjgbihd3eh27itvb5jlmu0u(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 Aug 2006, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> writes >On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:53:08 +0100, John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> >wrote: > >>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? > >Well, John, I think the "abuse" is retaliation against constant >America-bashing, and I don't really think this is grass-roots, do you? It IS a public face of a section of US society; a small section indeed, but the whole society is too big for anyone, even sociologists and anthropologists to view in toto. The nature of the abuse gives a terrible impression of the intelligence of the abusers. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |