From: henry999@eircom.net   
      
   ROBBIE  wrote:   
      
   > Seeing Bayley Boy's post below got me to thinking. The Iraq War destroyed   
   > this newsgroup--among other things--as has been noted before. But many   
   > abg-o-ers still lurk. May I ask what their position is now? I don't suppose   
   > anyone has changed their opinion but you never know. Me, I still think the   
   > invasion was the right thing to do; I hate totalitarianism like the next   
   > Orwell fan and think that the least the superrich, free world can do is bust   
   > these regimes out and give ordinary people a chance to live free from the   
   > various Mullahs, gangsters and ideologies that bedevil countries like Iraq,   
   > but I assumed that Washington and the US Army had some idea of what came   
   > after the initial hoo har.   
   >  As people say: Never Fuckin' Assume Anything. Cheney, Rumsfield and Bush   
   > are a trio of dumb fucks and the US Army's commitment to handling the   
   > occupation by overwhelming firepower playing Audie Murphy, instead of the   
   > diplomacy and limited force used to great success with the British Army,   
   > have put a match to the tinder box. The mooting talk of cutting and running   
   > reveals the architects of the invasion as having a level of crassitude and   
   > irresponsibility that beggars belief because they all know full well that it   
   > will become an Islamic Fascist State in five minutes flat and nothing will   
   > have been achieved at all, except that old family score that the wanky   
   > lefters and jack ass TV stoners keep going on about will have been settled.   
   > Big price.   
      
   With the horrible amount of human suffering that has been, and continues   
   to be, involved, it gives me no pleasure to say this, but you and Bayley   
   Boy and Christopher Hitchens and the rest of your lot need to hear it:   
      
   quagmire, quagmire, quagmire   
      
   cheers,   
      
   Henry   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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