From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 08:35:08 +0100, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> I beg to differ.....Phil and I have a shared (or at least related)
>> profession, and I have seen him post in forums (forae ?) related to
>> that profession.  I have *not* seen anything that would indicate an
>> inflated ego.
>
>But see http://homepages.tesco.net/~Phil.Payne/index.html

O.K. - maybe I was wrong .....(I haven't checked all the links,
by the way, just had time to visit the page)...but I think you understood
very well the point that I was trying to make.


>
>> I think Phil *does* have some extreme (to me anyway) political
>> opinions and is certainly not shy about sharing them .  (Sorry
>> Phil).
>
>I find my opinions don't sit easily in any of the political pigeonholes - I
>tend to form my opinions issue by issue.  In this particular case I've
>stated my objections clearly enough.

Agreed.   I don't always agree with you, but I do read everything.


>Take the Columbia issue.

Agreed again....but I'm not sure that I saw any suggestion that they were
innocents - unless that's implied by the fact that we have become so blase
about shuttle missions.


>Truly innocent people are being killed all the time.  The Israelis using a
>2,000lb bomb on an appartment house to assassinate one man............

I really have mixed feelings about situations such as that.  Do I like that
fact that so many innocents were killed?   Of course not - but by
the same token, I have a vehement dislike of the Palestinian suicide
bombers because they are always targetting innocents.


>This coming attack on Iraq will kill hundreds if not thousands.  .....

I really don't know what 'we' should be doing there.  I'm still trying to
sort out everything that we're being told.

Doug

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