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To: TobagoJack who wrote (202629)	9/11/2006 11:37:52 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Bush's speech tonight was directed as much to the flap being made by Col. Devlin's dire assessment of conditions in Anbar province, which borders Jordan and Syria, and is enormous and desolate, as it was for mass consumption. Anbar has Fallujah and Ramadi, is mostly Sunni, and is a piece of the world we won't miss if it disappears. Let the Sunnis have it, don't fret about it. No oil I think but lots and lots of sand and scorpions. Would you miss a bad penny out of your pocket?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (202629)	9/12/2006 2:29:20 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

TJ, homosexuality isn't something you do, it's something you are. I can distinctly recall being a heterosexual, but not doing any of it. Come to think of it, one could still experience that feeling by merely standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by. I expect that homosexuality works the same [they say so]. It's not like taking up golf or tennis as a hobby or personal choice. One doesn't have to do something to know one would feel squeamish. Just the thought of it is usually enough of a guide as to how one would feel if actually doing it. "You are not leaving this table until you at least TASTE your spinach and tripe" said to a child, will NOT change their sense of squeamishness if the demand succeeds in getting them to taste it. Instead of just thinking they might throw up, they will throw up. A war is never won for those who lost their offspring. Any victory will feel somehow hollow for them [I'm sure, though Islamic Jihad mothers seem delighted when their little darlings are blown to smithereens, even if it's not a great strategic victory, just a local mess at the market]. There are hordes of interests in a war, not just "two sides". Some large companies have already won and banked the profits. King George II has won, one part anyway = he has had the satisfaction of dead Uday and Qusay, and others and Saddam dragged out of his spider hole. That certainly showed who is alpha male out of that little lot. Anbar province is not a big deal globally. So what if they do their own thing. That doesn't mean Saddam won, or Bush lost. It just means Bush didn't get a complete unadulterated walk-over victory. He got a half-baked victory. Excellent, the fly-paper plan has worked. Al Q is buzzing like blow flies over a carcass in Iraq, just as planned by Rummy and co with the fly-paper theory where "We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them in downtown Peoria" Imagine if all those Al Qaedans chartered a whole lot of 747s and flew to Peoria to wage war. Hey, come to think of it, it would be a heck of a lot easier if AlQ would go to the USA to fight en masse, instead of making the USA spend a fortune going over there to wipe them off the fly paper and then failing [in that province anyway]. Mqurice