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From: John Woodgate on 4 Aug 2006 02:13 In message <ant4d2d1vilsko5kson7t7c4m63cruvlcu(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 Aug 2006, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> writes >Didn't you ask us to get into the war? Churchill did, several times, and US refused. However, US accepted the Japanese 'invitation'. By the twisted logic of this thread, that proves that the US takes more notice of its enemies than its friends. -- 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 02:09 In message <Xns9814BE02DF4ECjyanikkuanet(a)129.250.170.83>, dated Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> writes >John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote in >news:u94dDGrJIk0EFwNE(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk: > >> 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? > >Nonsense is all you could come up with? A nonsense question deserves a nonsense answer. That's probably a bit subtle for people who think that debate consists of hurling personal abuse and making obscene allegations about them. -- 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 02:18 In message <1jf5d2522hmdlisb1fcava6n9d0alones2(a)4ax.com>, dated Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> writes > Yes. We escorted hundreds of ships. When was that? And where? Before Pearl Harbour, the USN largely confined itself to US territorial waters in the Atlantic, and when it first ventured out, it suffered large losses from U-boat action. Captains didn't have any experience of how to avoid attacks and to forestall or retaliate. -- 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: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 02:29 John Woodgate wrote: > In message <hhm4d21q5mgl9vu47lcd7krn5cfrb35b7t(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 > Aug 2006, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> writes > > > And, you should be afraid of us. You should be _very_ afraid. > > Rest assured, John. We ARE very afraid of people who express views > similar to those you express. They are so like those expressed by > militant Islamists. Yet, I doubt that John sees *himself* as being a militant, so out of skew has the American way become. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 02:30
John Fields wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:26:26 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >John Larkin wrote: > > >> If so, how do you explain what a mess the world had been for, say, the > >> previous 1000 years? Could it have been, just maybe, somebody else's > >> doing? > > > >As opposed to the mess it is now? > >Just shows that the US has changed nothing. > >In 1000 years the only thing the US will be remembered for will be the > >moon landings. Not its brief shot at empire before the Chinese dominated > >the globe. > > --- > Yeah, like we're just going to sit back and let that happen? What exactly do you plan to do about it ? Graham |