On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 05:45 PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Heck, go read some Patrick O'Brien Jack Aubrey Books. The Royal Navy
earned its own keep with prizes, etc., until long after the
Napoleonic wars...
Come to think of it, the rise of book-entry settlement cooincides
nicely with
These guys were probably CIA. Now, since they are non-uniformed
and not carrying arms visibly, and not engaged in hostilities
qualifying under the Geneva Convetions, they are enemy
combatants. They don't fall under the Geneva Conventions since
they were not in qualifying hostilities. The
At 10:28 AM -0500 on 2/14/03, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
How would you distinguish the actions of the Royal Navy from those of
ordinary pirates? Just prettier uniforms, better weaponry, and a bitch
back in London with a crown on her head, or what?
Sounds about right to me.
:-)
Seriously,
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At 1:21 AM -0800 on 2/12/03, Lucky Green wrote:
And this matters how? Why would Bush, or for that matter the
Europeans, care about rebuilding (what?) in Iraq? Other than the
minimum investments required to prevent the population from rising
up
