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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (70467)	11/19/2005 9:52:07 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Your reply to Mao II was irrelevant to what he wrote. It goes to show how irrational you are. In any case, what you wrote about taking care of the boats is easier said than done. Don't forget that American cocksureness in the past has resulted in failure, embarrassment and humiliation for Americans. Did you know that way back in the late 1960s, an American spy boat ventured into North Korean waters assuming the North Koreans would be afraid to attack it, much less intercept it. What happened was a North Korean lieutenant appeared from "nowhere" to capture the spyboat, its captain and the crew. Big embarrassment and humiliation for the high and mighty! Did you know that during the Vietnam War, a US naval vessel pounded North Vietnam positions from 20 miles out at sea, taking advantage that no North Vietnamese guns could retaliate at that range. What happened was that the North Vietnamese blew the US ship out of the water! How? Unbeknownst to US surveillance, the North Vietnamese bodily carried dismantled long-range guns into the battle area and reassembled them just as they did way back in 1954 at Dien Bien-Phu against the French, and fired deadly salvos on the doomed American vessel. Of course, everyone knows the full Vietnam story, eh? And the humiliation in Somali? A couple of American bodies were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, and the US special forces (supposedly invincible) operation to capture Aidid turned into a fiasco! Aidid made monkeys out of them. And the US still fail in capturing Osama ben Ladin despite all its superior think tanks and state of the art equipment for this and that. Big joke, huh? How's Bush doing these days? Still strutting as before like an adolescent? And claiming everything is hunky-dory when that's not the case? Still boasting about cashing on the capital he won as a result of his "re-election"? How's his performance rating? Still falling! How disappointing, eh?