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   ROBBIE to Henry   
   Re: Eye-Rack Revisited--ABGO poll.   
   30 Sep 04 09:38:48   
   
   From: WORD_UNDERSCORECHEMIST@HOTMAIL.COM   
      
   "Henry"  wrote in message   
   news:1gkwzed.acszjbjrhf9xN%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   
      
   Ah the gift of erudition.   
      
   Cheers   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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