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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161332)	5/3/2005 2:45:09 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

They dropped over three times the tonnage of bombs on Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia that were dropped in all of WWII by all sides, in all theatres ... routinely fired off thousands of artillery shells per hour ... somewhere there is a page that estimates other ammunition fired, from .50-calibre down to rifle rounds, they are truly incredible figures ... the Doctrine of Overwhelming Firepower, indeed But they paid Michelin six hundred bucks for each rubber tree they damaged on their huge plantations there in the alligators' swamp - vvaw.org Interesting bit on Mad Jack Percival there, US involvement starts in 1845, if you count that ... in my previous post, you had got the typing fire all hotted up by the penultimate paragraph if not before, so i sort of skipped the UN reference .... reply to that would be Gandhi's, when asked what he thought of western civilisation, 'It would be a good idea.'

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161332)	5/3/2005 4:02:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

f somebody goes near an American, such as the escaping Italian hostage, it's a fusillade of ammunition. If someone drives up at high speed to a checkpoint and doesn't stop when ordered, or even after warning shots have been fired than it's a "fusillade of ammunition". It would be foolish to act differently considering the enemy is fond of using car bombs. Telling people that their perceptions are awry isn't normally very convincing. I'm not telling them that their perceptions are awry. I'm telling you, that if that really is their perception, it is awry. They are not here. Do you think the perception is awry or true? Tim