[Rhodes22-list] State of the Union

[brad haslett]

Alex,

We had a couple of our guys hire an English speaking
cabbie in Paris to give them a tour.  He pointed out
some statue of a General on a horse and one of the
guys quipped, "who did he surrender to"?  The cabbie
threw them out on the spot.

Brad
--- Alex Bell <alexbell@coastalnet.com> wrote:
> Brad,
> 
> We can't move on Iraq yet. The Iraq people don't
> have enough white
> sheets or white cloth yet. When you surrender
> 500,000 troops at a time,
> you need lots of white flag material. 
> 
> The French will be with us when the chips are down.
> They'll fight to the
> last American or British soldier. The Germans, who
> know a bit about the
> French soldier, will help coach us. I believe  the
> Germans beat up on
> the French during the world wars by walking in
> backwards and announcing
> they were leaving. Meanwhile, their biggest concern
> is their trade
> agreements with Iraq. 
> 
> Europe couldn't handle the Bosnia, Yugoslavia,
> Serbia mess. They called
> the UN in. What a great move. You can always count
> on the UN to resolve
> world problems. They always find a way to take care
> of things... with US
> dollars. 
> 
> BTW, I agree with you and Rik. It just takes me a
> bit of time to get to
> that. 
> 
> Alex
> 
> brad haslett wrote:
> > 
> > The environment I was in last night was certainly
> not
> > the best to watch the State of the Union address
> (a
> > hotel bar).  First I thought about taking the
> Nigerian
> > bartenders head off for saying, "why do you want
> to
> > watch that?".  Then some guy came in and started
> > bitching about the Flyers hocky game not being on.
> > Then some Brits came in and started making fun of
> the
> > whole thing.  I really wanted to take them on and
> > remind them we pulled their ass out of the fire
> twice
> > in the last century but there was five of them and
> two
> > of us.  We moved as close to the big screen as we
> > could and the volume was pretty loud but sometimes
> I
> > wonder if we heard the same speech as others.
> > 
> > W made it pretty clear to me that Saddam has not
> > accounted for all the known chemical and bio
> weapons
> > he's produced.  Hans Blix has said the same thing.
>  We
> > know there are plenty of folks in the world that
> don't
> > like us, would use anything they could get there
> hands
> > on to hurt us, and wouldn't let their religious
> > differences, fundamentalist or otherwise, get in
> the
> > way.  I'm don't think a link between Saddam and
> Osama
> > is necessary to justify invading Iraq.  Our need
> to
> > take care of Saddam stands by itself.  Hopefully
> > Powell will convince the rest of the world of this
> > next week.  Everyone would like to see the problem
> > resolved without bloodshed but what do they offer
> as
> > an alternative, ten more years of sanctions?
> > 
> > Most folks I know are not anxious to see us go to
> war.
> > Some want to avoid war at all costs.  To them I
> must
> > ask, who would you rather have listened to last
> night,
> > Neville Chamberlain declaring "Peace in Our Time"?
> > 
> > Brad Haslett
> > 
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