[plug] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia

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For a bloodless coup, why not send Saddam the accountants from Worldcom, a
few years time?

They can also have Tony Blair.


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Elliott" <James.Elliott at wn.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia


> I would rather the Yanks have the nuclear weapons than Osama Bin Laden or
> Sudam Hussein ......
>
> A good analogy can be seen in our attitude to the civilian police - we
don't
> like them, but in today's society they are a necessary evil.
>
> At least any democratic, pleace loving country has nothing to fear from
the
> USA, and I don't think that will change in the forseeable future ..... but
> if America disarmed itself and China (a despotic nuclear nation) decided
we
> had too much land for too few people and invaded us, who would stop them?
>
> Anyway, enough politics and idealism .... lets get back to Linux!
>
> James Elliott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bret Busby" <bret at busby.net>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 12:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia
>
>
> > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:01 am, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > > > Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry
> > > > (200,000ft), lots of links at http://news.google.com/
> > >
> > > Impressive. The load seems to have downed several of the news sites,
> including
> > > Voice of America.
> > >
> > > Cheers; Leon
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Pity it won't stop the yanks nuking the world.
> >
> > --
> > Bret Busby
> > Armadale
> > West Australia
> > ..............
> >
> > "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> >  you'll know what the answer means."
> > - Deep Thought,
> >   Chapter 28 of
> >   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
> >   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
> >   written by Douglas Adams,
> >   published by Pan Books, 1992
> > ....................................................
> >
> >
>
>