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To: LindyBill who wrote (200814)	3/29/2007 3:50:12 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793757

The Dems are being VERY quiet re: Iran and the UK Hostage situation....The Dems could be in the process of doing the exact same thing here as is being done in the UK.... The capture of 15 British sailors should serve as a warning. Nations cannot "opt out" of their responsibilities in the War on Terror when they feel it, like players in a pickup basketball game or cricket match. Enemies like the mullahs and their terrorist allies recognize no time outs, no neutral ground. They see only strength and weakness, those nations they can manipulate and those they have to fear. Today they clearly feel they can pull the British lion's tail with impunity. If the hostages are finally released unharmed, it will have a lot more to do with the presence of two American carrier groups off the Iranian coast than anything Blair is doing - and the British will have learned that what they really lost when they gave up their fleet and abandoned the fight in Iraq is their own self-respect.

To: LindyBill who wrote (200814)	3/29/2007 8:04:52 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793757

Thats a CRYING SHAME. The British people ought to be ASHAMED of themselves. Their navy has been the DIFFERENCE for CENTURIES over them being an independent nation or a VASSAL. Looks like they chose SLAVERY for themselves over freedom. jdn

To: LindyBill who wrote (200814)	3/29/2007 7:00:02 PM
From: Jaknik2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793757

>>Today, British politicians seem determined to make the same mistake. They exude the spirit not of Winston Churchill or Margaret Thatcher but of diplomat and Labor Party stalwart Harold Nicolson, who used to sigh to friends in the dark days after France's surrender in 1940: "All we can do is lie on our backs with our paws in the air and hope that no one will stamp on our tummies."<< What an absurd attitude, truly sickening. Unfortunately, we have a plethora of Harold Nicolsons in Congress right now and that is even more sickening. I wonder if these folks have ever pondered what a pack of al Qaeda terrorists would do to them when they found them on their backs with paws in the air? I suspect the terrorists would slit their bellies in search of evidence of guts or a spine........... Jak