From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:16:02 +0100, Adam  wrote:

>I object to people talking about "taking out" entire cities. Maybe it's
>just me & visions of Grozny.

I gave up on the not-fully-human GaryB shortly after Katrina.  While he is
best ignored, I do occasionally hurl insults at him.

Phil, on the other hand, who I always considered to be quite reasonable
(though annoyingly pedantic), seems recently to have become as frantic as
GaryB, as evidenced by the recent epiphany re Saddam being a really
"nice guy" and his incessant bashing of all Americans as
murderers and animals because of the actions of our politicians.

If he were rational, he'd realize that if all Americans fit that
description, then so do all Englishmen, because your government has played
an integral role in the overthrow of Saddam and the resulting cockup in
Iraq.  Hell, without your PM's support, Bush would have had to go it alone.
 You people provided the political cover needed to launch the invasion in
the first place and have been willing participants since the beginning. 
What's the matter with you war-mongering animals?  First you leave a house
of cards in place when deserting the remains of your erstwhile empire and
then you support the overthrow of one of the few reasonably stable secular
states left in the region?

And you, Adam, seem recently to be blaming the US for putting British boys
in harm's way in Iraq.  That is quite irrational.  The US doesn't deploy
British troops, your own government does.   The US didn't put
those troops in harm's way, your own government did so voluntarily.

FWIW (and that's very little at this stage)  I agree that the US invasion
was a mistake of incalculable proportions and has made things infinitely
more dangerous in Iraq than during Saddam's day.

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