Re: People converting to the winning side...

2003-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:06 AM 04/12/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: I'm not surprised to see some of my friends and associates (not necessarily on this list...I actually do interact with people off-list) switching sides from being "anti-war" to the other side. They natter about how Saddam was a tyrant (true enough, an

Re: Looting of museums, banks, shops, factories--South Central LA writ large

2003-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:19 PM 04/11/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: As Anne Coulter and her fellow republidykes have suggested, invade their country, take their oil, give their children blue eyes, convert them all to Christianity, and kill those who don't convert. The Brits did a nice PR spin on some of this - BBC report

Re: Looting of museums, banks, shops, factories--South Central LA writ large

2003-04-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 11 Apr 2003 at 23:19, Tim May wrote: > This looting and collapse is a consequence of the sacking of > Baghdad. Perhaps it's part of the plan. Burn off several > million useless eaters and maybe there's a chance for a more > compliant U.S. client state. > > As Anne Coulter and her fellow r

Irag Piss Poor Compared to 911

2003-04-12 Thread John Young
There was more fighting and carnage in Gulf War 1 than this piddling latest. This was not a war but a training exercise, a rattling of sabers, gunboat diplomacy. The military provided more information in Gulf War 1 than all the embedded and free-lancers in the latest. Almost no gunship videos and

Re: Looting of museums, banks, shops, factories--South Central LA writ large

2003-04-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- Tim May wrote: > > Baghdad will be a basket case for decades to come... > > > > The power vacuum as the old regime left, and as U.S. > > soldiers are staying out of any police action, has given > > widespread looting. On 11 Apr 2003 at 18:53, Eric Murray wrote: > It seems as if we're st