Re: Beirut.....Yet Another Velvet Revolution! Incredible!

From: Ool (ulrich.schreglmann_at_t-online.de)
Date: 03/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:58:19 +0100

"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote in message
news:42891c22.1174627665@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...

> You mean like we were "bogged down for years" (decades, actually) with
> troops in Germany?

If you had behaved in postwar Germany the way you did in Iraq we'd be
communist today and/or we would have WWIII behind us by now.

> Yeah, it never occurred to them. Right.

Seven words: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." At the
last count that was 1361 casualties ago--over ten times as many as
during the invasion. 

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