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Skriven 2005-11-27 14:47:07 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
     Kommentar till en text av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Collateral Damage
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24 Nov 05 23:13, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ROY WITT:

 FS> -=> Quoting Roy Witt to Joe Delahaye <=-

 >>>  JD> Funny. your prez calls it a war, all of the media in your
 >>>  JD> country calls it a war, congress calls it a war.  If not a war,
 >>>  JD> then what is it?
 >>>
 >>> President Bush calls it a "war" so as to increase the wild public
 >>> enthusiasm for it even more.  After all, one can *win* a war.  This
 >>> terrorist thing is going to go on forever.  How will we ever know
 >>> if we've *won*?  Will one of the suicide-bombers sigh a treaty of
 >>> surrender prior to blowing himself up?
 >>>
 >>> It is *not* a war ... it is merely a lot of fighting by our
 >>> troops trying to make the world a safer place.

 JD>> You mean trying to save US oil interests?

 RW>> How so? We weren't getting any oil from Iraq before, and we're
 RW>> certainly not getting any now...

 FS> That makes no difference to the anti-America crew with their wild
 FS> ideas.

I wouldn't expect anything less from whackos.

 FS> *Anything* the US does is *bad*.  Anything GWB says is a
 FS> "lie".  I think what *really* bothers them is something they
 FS> cannot admit:  That we saved Europe in *two* World Wars.  They
 FS> simply cannot acknowledge that.

Absolutely. Their little diversions about the Canadians saving Holland and
the Canadians landing on a beach in Normandy mean squat. And the stuff we
loaned to the allies was naturally sent from Canada (shorter distance
across the water), but it all came from the US to begin with.

 FS> In WWI it was a historical fact that the German push in the Spring of
 FS> 1918 had all but beaten the French and English.

Yeup, but it wasn't the Germans who were so strong, it was the Brits
having to prop up the Frogs that got them in trouble. Plus blindly
following some stupid order to go over the top of the trenches, no matter
what.

 FS>   Our fresh troops then entered and won the war for them.

Because we were not only fresh, but used different tactics...Unknown to
the uros before then. "The upstarts really do know something."

 FS>   Similarly in WWII, we supplied the Soviets so they'd not sign a
 FS> peace treaty with Germany and then invaded Normandy with some
 FS> assistance from the UK.

Bribary always worked with the russkies. Of course, you  have to give them
some credit. They built a lot of tanks while Germany was busy with Britain
and France.

 FS> It was almost *entirely* American might which then defeated the
 FS> Nazis.

Almost, with a little help from our friends. Very little.

 FS> WRT the Pacific War, of course, that was almost entirely an
 FS> American operation, with a bit of help from the Australians.

Moral support and temporary connubial bliss visits with the women...


Roy
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