Bangkokboy

Bangkokboy

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The real intent behind President Ford's executive order was to prevent the nuclear superpowers from assassinating each others' leaders and possibly triggering a nuclear war thereby. Because conventional counterrattack of one superpower against the other was totally unmanageable, that left only lobbing a nuke or doing absolutely nothing in response to an assassination. we had "off the record" agreement from the Soviets on this point, but never from the Red Chinese.

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during the vietnam war the russians delivered Migs to the north vietnamese with the IFF transponders turned on. The NV did not know to turn them off. for quite a long time we could easily see and track every Mig in the air using a stolen transponder interrogator. when they finally figured it out, the north vietnamese were extreeeemely upset.

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@wombat ah, the war over words! Those with the most experience flying through anti-aircraft artillery claimed the right to mongrelize it. i personally like triple A better than ack-ack. "then I guess the rest of us lesser mortals in second rate military units will have to conform" where does this overwhelming obsession with conforming come from? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/s

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wir verstehen dass es auf Englisch schwer zu benutzen ist. Vielleicht kann es im Futur auf Deutsch gestellt werden. ich verzeihe dass ich keine Leistungen in der Deutschen Lange und Sprache habe.

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"but I suppose a jumpy Patriot crew can be expected to fire on anything and be excused!" - wombat if the IFF was off the missile crew would have no idea when they fired whether the jet was american, iraqi, english, or something else, so the "let's get the English" conspiracy theorem doesn't work. when you fly into a missile defense zone with your ____ IFF inop or unkeyed, the primary onus is on YOU to keep you from getting shot down! There are comm and other protocols which

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"Call them Police or what you will, such a body would in fact be one of the best possible means of ending war as we know it..." - IPlural Subspace messages from the Hadrion cluster indicate that Gort ripped Klaatu to pieces and ate him 22 years ago. He liked the taste so much, he munched thru K's home planet and then scorched it. if he heads back this way, we could hire him to be the enforcement arm of the U.N. No more war! Unless Gort happens to want one, of course. <img src="http://i

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Everyone hates deaths from friendly fire especially. Fight a war for a year of your life and you won't be running around trying to hang someone every time a friendly fire death occurs. You won't even be inclined to want a piece of the friendlies who've shot at you. What you will do is pray that you've never unknowingly been resposible for a friendly fire death.

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"I believe the American forces truly endeavor to minimize civilian casualties. But this is war and every soul that dies, civilian or military, is human. We are engaging in the most horrible enterprise that mankind has ever invented. There is no glory now, only tragic death and suffering inflicted on men, women and children by members of their own species." DavidK what you describe - tragic death and suffering inflicted on men, women and children by members of their own species - has bee

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if the government's stats are right ( always a question), over 50% of all foodstuffs crossing international boundaries are being transferred from the US to some other country. What percentage was bought, and what percentage was donated they didn't say in the article. obviously they're not talking about cans of green beans, but largescale shipments of thousands of metric tons of wheat, rice, soybeans, etc. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/notsure.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle

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"I want everyone to have the right to speak freely, eat, to be housed, work, have a system, they can work with, have education and the ability to persute a life." - jtb all noble goals, but we'll have to start here in our own country i'm afraid. if my math's right we'll also have to find a way to drastically increase the worlds natural resources, or slow down the rate at which our world population is exploding.

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paxx - good theory, but you must admit that none of us really "knows" what the Turks intentions are. it is disturbing. with all of the friction that the Turks have had with resident Kurds, i'd almost find it easier to believe that they want to push their Kurdish citizenry down into northern Iraq. either way it is alarming as you said.

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DavidK - 621 was pithy, i agree with Jafo. unfortunately, it contains a litany of accusations with zero proof. and if you posted a link for every one of them, investigation would show that many lack hard proof and have dubious sources in some cases. write a book about it, include documentary proof that would suffice in a legal court, and i'll buy the first copy of the book. there are many others around who would also buy a copy. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" bord

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we appear to have changed our ways of doing things. Used to stand with our hands in our pockets, and let the baddies have that "first blow", so that we counldn't be construed as "the aggressor". those who wish to harm us have changed their ways - they used to use weapons with limited destructive power, and usually confined themselves to military targets. Now they use weapons capable of killing thousands, and seem to prefer innocent noncombatents. being perceived as an aggress

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paxx made a good point about presumptions. when i and other war vets bump into someone who won't go to war because of principles, there is a great tendency to presume that his sense of self-preservation has its thumb on the moral scales and is adding to the weight of his anti-killing beliefs. presuming is almost always bad, and the result is often false. people strongly opposed to killing return the favor, and assume that a military person is a jingoistic hothead lacking in sel

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civilian casualties? People like Hussein set up anti-aircraft artillery guns on the roofs of hospitals and orphanages, and store their weapons under churches, temples, and in people's basements whenever possible. Saw the same cowardly "kee kwai" in the Vietnam war. if you want to save civilian lives, tell the petty tyrants like Hussein to stop using their women and orphans as body shields.

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