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"Chicago Paddling-Fishing" <jwn@ripco.com> wrote in message 
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> :> :> : NO John it is NOT. Nikki didn't actually TRY to bury as!
>
> :> :> You sure?  Seems to me a lot of folks lost their lives in the cold 
> war
> :> :> fighting in far away places...   Who backed our opponents in Korea 
> and
> :> :> Viet Name???  How about the middle east? Who backed the other side?
> :> :> How many soviet built planes and tanks has israel destroyed in the 
> last
> :> :> 30 years?  The middle east was one of the testing grounds....
>
> :> :     Khrushchev was NOT at the head of the USSR at the time of Korea. 
> That
> :> : was Joe Stalin. The point is that there was no real direct engagement
> :> : between the US and USSR while Nikki was in charge. The closest there 
> was,
> :> : was the Cuban Missile crisis.

> :> Have we had enemys before who have made statements threatening the
> :> existance of our nation?

> : Yes Nazi Germany (Hitler) and Japan. Did you see what we did to THEM? 
> Try
> : Hiroshima, Dresden, Berlin, Nagasaki see if thos eimages gets a brain 
> cell
> : moving.

> :> Have we survived, and in some cases, become friendly with those 
> countries?

> :     Yeah after we blew the sht out of them!

> We never fought a war directly with the Soviets, lots of clandistined 
> stuff,
> but no direct fighting... yet thier leader did say "We will bury you". 
> What
> the leader of Iran has said so far is no different... and they may well
> collapse from their own weight as well...

    Don't let me break this to you but several Soviet squadrons of MiG-15's 
were used in Korea as well as Soviet army units. While we had a kill rate of 
12 to 1 over the Korean air force we only had a kill rate of 4 to 1 over the 
Soviet pilots. 8 to 1 over the Chinese.

> :> We didn't fight a direct war with the Soviets, but we fought them on 
> many
> :> fronts thruout the world...

> :     Korea.

> China and Viet Nam don't get along well (hence China invaded them in the
> Sino-Viet Nam war, the late 70's) The Soviets supplied View Nam during the
> war with us...

    Via China.

> Same with the wars in the middle east... 1973 was the first time the U.S.
> got a good look at a Mig 25, and that was over Israel at mach 3.2...

> We have dealt with problems before and been able to remain on the high
> moral ground... The United States has no need to dip its hand into the
> gutter of genocide now...

    They never attacked us John.