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Digit · Post by **Digit** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:05 am

I really don't know whether to blame GWB or TB, or was it their advisors. To find out that we had no plans to complete the operation seems unbelievable.
It's a good thing they are politicians, they wouldn't last five minutes in industry.

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:13 am

Digit,

They did have a plan. It was built on Alice in Wonderland assumptions.

I have to go find something for you.

BRB.

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:15 am

Here.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

Note the date......and also note the collection of Neo-Con assholes who signed the letter.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:35 am

The only name I know is Rumsfeld, so I can't comment about the rest.
Have you heard of TBs 'dodgy dossier' at all?
TB is now so isolated from reality that he is about to knight its author!

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:19 am

It's a Who's Who of neo-con assholes, many of whom were given important jobs in the Departments of Defense and State when the Texas Twit was handed the White House.

There have been lots of releases of communications between Blair and his advisors and Blair and Bush that have made the press over here. Are you referring to the "Downing Street Memo"?

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:25 am

You might know it as that in the US. It was presented to parliament as the reason why we had to attack SH, it turned out to be largely a high school treatise off the net! Never has my country gone to war and sacrificed so many lives on such flimsy evidence. TB want a place in history. He has one!

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:42 am

Never has my country gone to war and sacrificed so many lives on such flimsy evidence

hmmm I don't know about that
the english civil war was started by a rumour that Charles the first was going to convert to catholicism

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:47 am

Maybe, does that mean TB can have a date with an axe? And any case Steve, I've no doubt we could could find even dafter reasons. What about the war of Jenkins? ear if you want start a list of stupid reasons for killing people.

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:51 am

How 'bout the domino effect?

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:59 am

Like I said Monk, we could make a list.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:00 pm

What about the war of Jenkins ear
yeah that was a good one
it had nothing to do with money at all and I'll stand by that
the only real thing it changed was that after that we started to refer to colonials as americans
something that has remained unchanged to this day
damned yankee colonials never had it so good

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:10 pm

Till some P---- shot me in the face I was to fly with RAF and I read everything that was written, and I'm reminded of a F/S drilling recruits.
'All English to the left, colonials to the right'.
One chap stayed where he was.
After observing that, 'there's always one', the F/S asked him where he came from.
'The United States'.
'To the right, if you're not English you're a Colonial'.

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:38 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/02/hund ... index.html

I have been hearing about a new generation of laptops about to hit the marketplace which will operate without Windows operating system, and use flash drives in lieu of harddrives. Slim, portable and 150USD$. As such, the claim is they are virus proof, etc. (at least for the time being).

Will Microsoft Vista die before it debuts? Doubtful, but it will be interesting to see where this is headed.

stan · Post by **stan** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:05 pm

FM, I didn't see any mention of the internet in the article, although it mentioned networking.
So maybe viruses aren't an issue...but it seems odd not to have internet access.

And I'm not sure this will be marketed in the US.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:24 pm

you can buy second hand internet ready wifi laptops on ebay now for less than £100 anyway