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From: Eeyore on 14 Aug 2006 10:52 Jim Yanik wrote: > David Brown <david(a)westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote in > news:44e03429$1(a)news.wineasy.se: > > > Eeyore wrote: > >> > >> Jim Yanik wrote: > >> > >>> Hey,Iran is clever;they use Lebanon and Gaza as their > >>> battlefields,Hezbollah and Hamas as their mercenaries,Syria as a > >>> buffer. Iran itself hasn't risked much at all. > >> > >> Your point is ? > >> > >> Graham > > Way over YOUR head,Grammy. > > > Perhaps he means to say they are as bad as the Americans, who use the > > Israeli military as mercenaries. > > Yes,due to our wussy liberal/Democrat/socialists,who are all to ready to > sell out Israel,the US has not come down fully on Israel's side. > > As to using them as "mercenaries",I suppose you can cite an example of when > and where the US has done this? (Paid them to fight for us.) Well....... Israel gets nearly 3 bn annually from the USA. So that's the 'paid for' bit settled. Graham
From: Eeyore on 14 Aug 2006 10:54 John Larkin wrote: > All those US soldiers who died on Omaha Beach, liberating mainland > Europe from the Nazis... do they meet your definition of mercenary? > After all, they were fighting for a foreign country, based in another > foreign country, and they were getting paid. In what way were they fighting 'for a foreign country' ? Graham
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John Woodgate on 14 Aug 2006 11:39 In message <rm21e252e1dn7uuqkm34d8ff4u3rtrvq70(a)4ax.com>, dated Mon, 14 Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> writes >You probably have fewer lunatics in Norway, another reason your >politics is dull. All your real nut cases emigrated here ages ago. There goes the Minnesota vote! -- 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: bill.sloman on 14 Aug 2006 14:30 Jim Yanik wrote: > David Brown <david(a)westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote in > news:44e039f5(a)news.wineasy.se: > > > John Larkin wrote: > >> On 11 Aug 2006 04:46:30 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: > >> > > > It's interesting how obsessed europeans seem to be with American > >> politics. Since their function in the world is largely passive by > >> choice, and since enormous messes remain of their direct making, I > >> should think they'd be content to spend their days on holiday, > >> wine-tasting or whatever they do for amusement. > >> > >> It's the fish-or-cut-bait thing. > >> > >> John > >> > > > > American politics is far more entertaining than a lot of European > > politics. Here in Norway, the government is formed by a coalition - it > > doesn't really make a big difference who you vote for, because they all > > get together to argue out a compromise afterwards. But on the other > > side of the Atlantic, a half percent of votes stolen here or there makes > > a huge difference to the country and the rest of the world. It's the > > same with scandals - if our prime minister had an affair, people would > > say it's between him and his wife, while a little indiscretion by your > > previous president brought your country to a halt. > > > > "stolen" votes? > > any credibility you had has evaporated. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen with you, perhaps. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: John Larkin on 14 Aug 2006 15:31
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:54:07 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >John Larkin wrote: > >> All those US soldiers who died on Omaha Beach, liberating mainland >> Europe from the Nazis... do they meet your definition of mercenary? >> After all, they were fighting for a foreign country, based in another >> foreign country, and they were getting paid. > >In what way were they fighting 'for a foreign country' ? > >Graham Yours, among others. John |