BF>> For me that would be to confuse Canada with USA.

 RN> Except that part of Canada that is known as Ontario.  (-:

Is that a part of Canada?

 RN> I don't care for anything gelatin-wise, but they were really an
 RN> exceptional family and I liked them.  That was my only experience with
 RN> Norwegians, with the exception of reading Thor Heyerdahl's book Kon-Tiki.
 RN> I felt as though I were on that raft with him on his journey across the
 RN> Pacific Ocean.

It's nothing wrong with the Norwegians, it's only fun to make fun of them.

 BF>> There is a healty rivalry going on between Sweden and Norway and also
 BF>> with Finland but strangly, not with the Danish.

 RN> Why not?  (-:

Don't know actually. It's such small country so we have to be nice to them.

 RN> No one pays any attention to anything I say about world affairs, but I'll
 RN> look into it.

Good.

 BF>> The Parlianment is in Brussels, Belgium and I don't think any country can
 BF>> take contol over it.

 RN> Even worse!

Yes, and if they should even take controll over our money, oh well.....
On TV they said that in Ireland the prices have increesed 300% since they joined
EU and the Euro in 4 to 5 years ago and we don't want that to happend. A
"normal"
2 family house in a normal surroundings will cost for one family about 1.5 mil USD
for one of the apartments. Huh....

  RN> Our politicians in the Federal government get automatic raises, unless
 RN> they decide to vote against one.  Fat chance of that happening.

Sure.

 RN> Not many Americans going to France, either.  Not after what they did.

That must include Germany as well.

 RN> Maybe so, but that has yet to be proved.  In the meantime, I'm glad he and
 RN> the coalition sent troops into Iraq.

Yes, if they had waitet to long no one knows what could have happend.

  RN> As I said, they've had a long time to hide that stuff.

Only time will tell.

 RN> If we capture all of those people shown on that deck of 55 cards, one or
 RN> more of them should know something.  I believe the woman scientist we have
 RN> in custody known as "Doctor Germ" could possibly know
something, but if
 RN> she does, she isn't talking.

One must take in consider that she perhaps doesn't know anything.
Half of that deck are now in custody.

 RN> As I told a friend in New Zealand some months ago, I believe bin Laden has
 RN> been killed and I also believe the coalition got Saddam on one of the last
 RN> bombing runs.  I can't think of any other reason for some of those Iraqis
 RN> who surrendered to do so unless he is dead.

It's one thing to beleeve and another to know.
"Experts" are saying that he is still alive, somwhare in Iraq.

  RN> We were very careful about leaving some of the infrastructure intact.
 RN> Those people are going to need a source of income and they are sitting
 RN> atop a gold mine (of sorts).  They only require a government responsive to
 RN> their needs.

So they need but "experts" (again) don't beleeve in that as long
as the USA troops
are still in the country. The "military" regim was kicked since
it didn't work and now
there is a diplomat in charge but they still don't let some Iraqies be part
of it and that
can't be good.

 BF>> It was rather peaceful even before the war......

 RN> Unless you lived there and spoke out against Saddam...

Naturally, but in that case even China, North Koreea, Albania a.s.o. should be
neutrilazied.

 BF>> I don't say that it was wrong to take out Saddam, but it was perhaps for
 BF>> the wrong reason.

 RN> I'm glad he's gone.  I hope that a culture who teaches death to infidels
 RN> because their religion is different is eventually eradicated, and then we
 RN> all can pursue more profitable enterprises, secure in the knowledge that
 RN> we are free from aggresssion and war.

I agree but what shall we do with Israel, Palestine and all countrys in
that "war"?
There they still teach their children to hate everyone that don't believe
in their God?

 BF>> Even here I think it's for the wrong reason. They both want to have the
 BF>> cake and eat it at the same time and there are fanatics all over the
 BF>> world.

 RN> But as long as those fanatics aren't bothering them, there's no need for
 RN> us.

But when can you be sure that they wont bother you again?
It's the fanatics that are the worst and can strike all over the world at
any time and
they have proven they can.

 BF>> There is a simular thing here. The Danish wants us to shut down our
 BF>> nuclear plant that is placed just near to Copenhagen but they will gladly
 BF>> export electicity made in their /very/ dirty coal power plant where the
 BF>> exhaust will contaminate Sweden. It's all about politics and money.

 RN> I couldn't have put it better myself, Bj”rn.

And when shall the politicians understand this?
Ever?

  BF>> There will never be peace on this planet as long as there are different
 BF>> religions.

 RN> I agree.  Many a war was fought because of religion.

Many? Say one that wasn't.

 RN> They have been promised something by the fanatics whom they believe in.  A
 RN> promise those same leaders can't possibly fulfill.  The easy answer to
 RN> your question is that they have been, as you said, brain-washed.

Yes. They are promissed heaven and before that they have even expiered it with
drugs and wimman and beeing told that this is what's going to happend to you when
you explode yourself. This has been told by some of the survivors.
As I say, fanatics is the worse kind of people.

//Bj”rn

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