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To: elmatador who wrote (16494)	4/5/2007 1:25:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219782

ElM, you are misunderstanding the UK and its teeth. They do things differently in Britain from in the USA. When they captured IRA terrorists, there wouldn't usually be a shootout, which is the norm in the USA. It was more usually a reasoned "Come on out Paddy. We've got all the time in the world. Here's some breakfast while you think about it." In the USA, it's SWAT and blasting and MADness. The UK is more inclined to be trigger happy now that suicide bombers are on the loose - hence the Brazilian murdered on the underground. It makes sense for Britain to not go in with guns blazing and if outgunned to simply surrender. As the Americans said, they'd have let all hell loose. That would have, or probably would have, resulted in carnage and war, which is not good for CDMA sales and peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love. Much better to go to Tehran for a while, which was some nice R&R for the British soldiers and in retrospect will be a great story with which they can regale their grandchildren. Much more exciting than simply checking for smuggled cars avoiding taxation or import permits. Nobody dead was the best outcome. I like that. The UK has plenty of teeth. As they learned in Argentina. That was without sending nuclear bomb armed and nuclear powered submarines visiting. royal-navy.mod.uk Mqurice