Re: May America lose the Iraq war

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From: thorton
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:30

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America has already lost!  We have King Bush on our side!


"Faust" <urfaust@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> Faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au> writes:
> > If you read Caesar's Gallic wars carefully, you can see the accounts of
the
> > atrocities that he perpetrated. One strategy was to ask a fortified city
> > to surrender. If they did not surrender at once, he laid seige,
conquered
> > and then slaughtered every single inhabitant, man, woman and child.
>
> Sorry to follow up to myself :-)
>
> This was quite pragmatic since the following cities would capitulate as
> soon as the Romans appeared on the horizon.
>
> Unfortunately this tactic failed to work with the Germans who were
> simply more terrifying than the Romans.
>
> Four centuries of attacks on the Romans by the Goths followed, which
> contributed to the final destruction of Imperial Rome.
>
> I wonder whether the USA's attack on Islam will meet a similar fate.
> Muslims seem to be as resilient as the Goths.
>
>
> --
>
> Breathing in, out,
> forward, back,
> living, dying.
>
> Two arrows meet in mid air,
> slice and sail on through
> into open space.
>
> I turn around.
>
> gesshu soko
> death poem
> january 1696

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From: "thorton" <thorton@charter.net>
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Subject: Re: May America lose the Iraq war
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 04:30:20 -0600
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