From: Keith on 9 Aug 2006 11:13 In article <91gid25upsoq7uvato0h0g9egur7rh5svs(a)4ax.com>, phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org says... > On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:37:13 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: > > > > > > >John Woodgate wrote: > > > >> In message <4jqtm0F9b7r6U1(a)individual.net>, dated Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Dirk > >> Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> writes > >> >Why not take Bin Laden at his word, and read *why* he attacked the US? > >> Citation? > > > >"We decided to destroy towers in America," because "we want to regain the > >freedom of our nation," Bin Ladin said. > > > > What "nation" does Bin Laden call "his"? > Islam. -- Keith
From: Jim Yanik on 9 Aug 2006 10:58 John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in news:8e5id216ookd9v1j8k7hpoet1du097hv02(a)4ax.com: > On 8 Aug 2006 21:18:15 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote: > >>John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in > >>> --- >>> The problem in the middle east is a "Hatfields and McCoys" mentality >> >>Not really.Israel would just as soon leave the Lebanses alone. > > --- > Right, thanks. > > Interestingly,it's IRAN and SYRIA that are simply using Lebanon as their *battlefield* against Israel,and the Lebanese are just dupes.they get their country demolished,their peoples killed or maimed,and Iran and Syria get the benefits,and none of the negatives. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net
From: Jim Yanik on 9 Aug 2006 11:02 John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote in news:00XLxlD+aX2EFwv6(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk: > In message <1155077708.010870.213940(a)75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, dated > Tue, 8 Aug 2006, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org writes > >>The odds are very good that your strategic arsenal will be made totally >>obsolete before it is ever used. > > I expect most Americans, even the most barking that post here, hope that > is true. They have much more to lose than Third World people, a small > percentage of which are probably the only ones likely to survive a > nuclear war. Look at today's Japan;they survived two nuclear detonations,and today are a prosperous,free nation. The US helped the after the war ended,and no we are allies and friend. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net
From: John Larkin on 9 Aug 2006 12:47 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 06:46:38 +0100, John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <1155077708.010870.213940(a)75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, dated >Tue, 8 Aug 2006, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org writes > >>The odds are very good that your strategic arsenal will be made totally >>obsolete before it is ever used. > >I expect most Americans, even the most barking that post here, hope that >is true. They have much more to lose than Third World people, a small >percentage of which are probably the only ones likely to survive a >nuclear war. Yeah, we're hoping that lunatic third-world nuclear powers (like the UK and France) don't go crazy and start Armageddon. John
From: Richard The Dreaded Libertarian on 9 Aug 2006 13:04
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:30:38 +0000, Ken Smith wrote: > Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> wrote: > [... OBL ...] >> We are trying to find and kill him every day. We want to stop him >>spreading too. > > A reference: > > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/05/terror/main1776250.shtml > > As spoken by teh President: > [Bush]: "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't > care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." > > The guy is a foot taller than everyone else in the room and somehow they > can't find him. > > There are good reasons why the admin may not want to find him. For one > thing his family may be upset by what happens after he is found. If they found him and dispatched him (or captured/kidnapped him, whatever), then Dubya would lose his best boogeyman. Cheers! Rich |