"Geoff Miller" <geoffm@u1.netgate.net> wrote in message
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> n5hsr <n5hsr@comcast.net> writes:
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>> I still think I would have said "Ooops, my hand slipped off
>> this live grenade that I just dropped down the spider hole,
>> and let the door slam back shut on.".[/color]
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> It's a tempting thought, but Saddam will certainly end up dancing
> at the end of a rope. At least this way, with the trial, we get
> the bene- fit of
PR. You can bet your ass and hat that had the
> troops simply killed him, the Blame America First Society would've
> pounced on the lack of due process and used it against the U.S.
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> Also, don't think for a minute that the lesson of our being able to
> invade a distant country and effect regime change (whatever the
> complications may have been afterward) was lost on our emerging
> adversary, Red China. (Yes, I still call them that. To hell with
> this politically correct "PRC" stuff.) Long-range power projection
> is something we have that the ChiComs lack, and will for a long time.
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> Geoff
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> "And how about the American eagle? The eagle is a bird of prey
> and hence offensive to rodents, a key Democrat constituency."
> -- Ann Coulter
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Chi Coms? You mean Billy Clinton's friends? That he helped sell the W83
plans to?
Charles of Schaumburg
