From: "Robert Comer" 

You can't get blood out of a turnip either...

- Bob Comer


"William F. Zachmann"  wrote in
message news:3e7144e7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> You can't get the juice, Adam, unless you squeeze the lemon.
>
>
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:3e70cf69$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Even if means really pissing off not just the politicos but even the
> troops
> > on the ground of the only military ally the US has got in this?
> >
> >
> > adam
> >
> > "William F. Zachmann" 
wrote in message
> > news:3e70c6c9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > For someone in his position, I'd say Don Rumsfeld is refreshingly
> candid,
> > > straightforward, and honest.  I'm quite pleased to have a US
> > administration
> > > that does not feel obliged to confine itself to the sort of insincere,
> > > 'diplomatic' doublespeak that characterizes so much of that charade
one
> > sees
> > > at the UN (or in the Clinton administration a few years back).  It's
> nice
> > to
> > > have folks who are willing simply to tell it like it is.
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > >
> > > will
> > >
> > >
> > > "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e6fcd4f{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> > > > news:3E6F1ECA.10FF7E3E{at}isham-research.com...
> > > >
> > > > > > Translation: we are playing it by ear..
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, but it's one of the most inept, crass
statements imaginable.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not so sure that rumsfeld is an idiot, idiots usually get in
> trouble
> > > > then get locked in the basement but he never seems to
get in trouble
> > just
> > > > has to talk his way out of things. It's almost like
they want him to
> do
> > it
> > > > because he can get away with it.
> > > >
> > > > Geo.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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