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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (122010)	12/24/2003 4:56:38 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Let Carl put that into his pipe and smoke it What? And get rid of that "BC Bud" he's been sucking down? ;0) Hawk

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (122010)	12/24/2003 12:13:51 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Once Skeptical, Briton Sees Iraqi Success" (a) General Graeme Lamb is the commander of British forces in Iraq. Of course he's going to tell you that the war is going well, what the hell else has the administration been saying? You damn well don't have any contemporary quotes from him from the time that he was skeptical. Clearly when he was skeptical he didn't say a word to the press about it, LOL. What does that make him then, a liar who you believe now? In short, the article is just another propaganda piece quoting the authorities who dragged us into this unwinnable war, and quoting them, as usual, to the effect that we're winning. They were saying the same thing about Vietnam right up to the point where the last helicopters left Saigon. This is simple human nature, nothing more. (b) Lamb is handing over command in Iraq to the next Briton. It's rather natural for him to crow about his successes. According to his logic, any eventual defeat could only be due to the defects of his predecessor, the war was going swimmingly when he was done with it, LOL. -- Carl P.S. Re: "Let Carl put that into his pipe and smoke it." Why don't you tell me when our casualty rate in Iraq will decrease to the point where we start making new records for low numbers of soldiers killed there?