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To: combjelly who wrote (534317)	12/4/2009 4:24:44 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575781

I never said it had to be permanent. Just that territory gets occupied in a real war. No wonder you are sounding like a nit wit. You didn't understand the argument. Actually, it is you raising the straw man. The argument began as a disagreement over whether Al Qaeda could technically participate in a war against the US, since they were a non-governmental organization and, presumably, could not fight over "territory", thus making a war with AQ presumably, impossible. Your proposition is, of course, ridiculous. Is it your position that mercenaries cannot participate in a "war"? It is your position that the Hessians in the Revolution weren't participating in a war (after all, while the Hessians were mostly Germans, they were not here in the service of their government, rather, as conscripts who were EMPLOYEES or even CAPTIVES of their government). Was the Battle of Long Island not "war"? You're just being downright silly in persisting with an argument that obviously is highly illogical and without any rational foundation, whatsoever.