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Phil Payne wrote:
>> So why come out with transparently false figures (or try gluing 2 sets
>> of true information together via a completely fictitious link) ?
>
> Force of habit.
>
> Plus the public at large is INCREDIBLY innumerate.
>
> Look at the cost of the attack on Iraq and the effect of spending the same
> money within the healthcare system, or on reducing road accidents.
>
> Same thing with the cost-per-life saved achieved by AIDS research and
> cervical cancer screening.  A fatcor of 100 or more.
>
> There is one thing, though.  An attack on Iran certainly would make Iraq
> look good.  Unless the Iranians hit the megabases pretty hard.  Very nice of
> the US military to build those targets.  Of course, they work against a few
> resiatance fighters on camels.  Not against what the Iranians can chuck
> back.
>
> Iraq was made defenceless by a war of attrition - UN sanctions and continual
> bombing under the cover of the no-fly zone.
>
>

Indeed. However the sad thing is that the UK has quite a good case however
we are not in a threat posture wrt Iran so......no red tabbed types to be
seen.....

Then again .....it's what we (& the US) did in Afghanistan to the
Soviets. The Russians must be hooting with laughter at the
"denunciations of supply".


Adam

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