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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (200973)	9/3/2006 9:42:00 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Top of the morning to you. Notice how your sources fail to mention how many actual Lebanese prisoners are in Israeli jails? Instead, they claim that Hizbullah wants thousands of Arabs, "including Lebanese", released. We can be patient on this one. We should see how many Lebanese are exchanged shortly. [BTW: I've seen the web site you cited before. It's full of a bunch of crapola. Which is why you like it no doubt.] Uh.. hello McFly... anyone in there??!! Syria and Israel have been in a state of war since 1967. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? Excellent. You finally agree. This little Lebanese episode is just a continuance of the past. It's a bit more work leading you around by the nose with breadcrumbs, but it's worth the entertainment value. It's actually Hizb'allah. All I did was eliminate the E's and O's.. The latest standards, and certainly the one the Government is supposed to use, follows a simple rule. "C.O.P.E". None of those letters should be in a Arabic to English transliteration. The only correct spelling is in Arabic. Various English spellings arise because the original is Arabic. It doesn't appear that the media goes along with the transliteration approach buy rather attempts to make a phoenetic translation. Maybe your mission as master thread speller should be expanded to being the global media spell checker. I do like the spelling of Hizb'allah as it seems closer to the Army of Allah translation. Hope you make progress in getting the global media to correct that. I'm 100% behind you on that. After reading the news this morning, I've been rehabilitated. Bush said we're making progress in Iraq and the majority of Iraqis want a unified Iraq; in spite of the Kurds abolishing the Iraqi flag and have taken up a Kurdish flag. Good progress in Iraq; good progress in Afghanistan and great progress in Lebanon. Bush/Condi have a UN resolution that will guarantee lasting peace between Lebanon and Israel. Iran and Syria have both agreed to support the UN resolution on Lebanon. The Afghan economy is booming. And Israel won the war in Lebanon hands down. All we have left to resolve is: "Who started the war in Grenada?" jttmab

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (200973)	9/3/2006 1:14:53 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"I think there are some significant differences between Vietnam and Iraq, as well as some similarities. It seemed like the Vietnamese, despite the war, always considered themselves one people — regardless of north or south, they always thought they'd be reunited. They would be one people. In Iraq there's so much sectarian violence and animosities that splits communities apart. I don't think Iraq ever felt strong nationalism the same way the Vietnamese have always felt. As far as the similarities, in both cases U.S. policy makers and the U.S. government has shown an abysmal ignorance of the history, politics, cultural realities of both regions, and also held this naïve assumption that military power and weaponry can solve any situation. We learned that was wrong in Vietnam. The Vietnamese fought in the south without any aircraft and the U.S. had the most powerful air power in the word and we still couldn't defeat a determined force who just wanted us out, who wanted us to leave Vietnam. I think the situation in Iraq just might be the same. If we left Iraq there would probably be continued chaos but I can't see how it could be any worse than it is today when we see the terrible bombings and killings every day." hotzone.yahoo.com