To: Chas. who wrote (112091 ) 8/20/2003 1:14:04 PM From: marcos Respond to of 281500 Yes, the arabs in general need better leaders, never mind just the palestinians ... sure, show me an arab/palestino on these threads and i shall make that point to him/her, meantime we're talking to zionism promoters and to neutrals, and it's not the neutrals who are making the problem in the first place by invading with their Whackenstaat the lands of a Whackenstan 'Arafat should have been dealt with by US years ago, it was in our best interest. ' Do that and you raise him to martyr status, while lowering your own [i forget, what is it that is lower than The Great Satan?] .... had a palestino slit his throat years ago, and an israeli slit that of Sharon, i'd have a higher opinion of the ability of these two peoples to survive Ford - last i heard of them they were shutting down the pickup truck plant in Oakville ... pickup i drive was made in Kansas City Missouri, by the way .... it had a sticker on the windscreen saying so, which is why when it got cracked right across the bottom i left it that way for years, didn't want to lose the sticker, always liked the sound of that, KEHN-ziz sit-ee miz-OO-rah, plus i have a couple personal reasons to be fond of that state ... we are not by fundamental nature protectionist, you see, quite the contrary ..... in any case, a few metal-bashers in Backeast getting jobs does nothing to counter the Commerzwaffe campaign against british columbian forestry folk Welcome back .... got a keener sense of thread rules now eh, heh-heh ... see, there have to be rules chuck, just imagine if we were using RPGs instead of keyboards, how important it would become that there be clear and sensible rules, and that we be encouraged to follow them ..... now scale up the RPGs to nookyuler weapons and planes full of fuel and passengers, it becomes even more important, so that's why we need a functioning parliament of the independent democracies, isn't it