> CP wrote --
>> "No, your honour, I know they can; I just don't want THEM to know!"
> A line I often use.  :)
>> Didn't they release the hostages just prior, or within that week?
> Minutes.
> The oath was taken at like noon, at 12.01 they were released.

Sweet.  His intended reputation well-preceded him exactly where he wanted it to go!

Nicely done.

They knew they were about to be obliterated if they didn't return your people.

Whatever some might say about his policies, his party, his memory, etc.  He was the man for the job when needed.

Made me wonder then, & ever since -- what the heck was Carter doing/thinking?

I'm normally a dove, but I would've been full "Ray-Gun" if any of my people  were being held by dangerous foreign nuts.

I guessv that's why I'm not im charge, among other readons.

When they held a few of our people in Mexico, Mexico would become a foreign  territory of Canada as their requet for forgiveness, & we'd finally have  somewhere warm, within "Canada" to go to for winter vacations!

You'd save a billion or ten in watching/defending your southern border!

'cos you know we're not rectal orifices to you.

Even as we changed our marijuiana laws, we'd have respected yours until such  time you choose to update them to be different, & would never sell to even your states who legalised it, because you're a country with a federal government.

We'd hope, of course, the feds would relax things for states who choose to  legalize based on medical benefits (medicine is a strictly state purview, no?)

Even as lazy rabble rousers in entertainment (including news magazines)  criticise you, we, as a nation, generally want only the best for our big  brother to the south

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