C'mon Newscorp, you can do better than this...

Nope, Blair's govt doesnt go around assassinating its own employees.

Even Maggie didnt do stuff like that.

Yeah, no one would be that stupid.

Plenty are stupid enough to slash their wrists when the brown stuff hits the fan tho.

How exactly can you say knowingly like that that "maggies gov" even did'nt do that? Or that Tonys Gov does not? Are you connected with the secret services in your past..

How do you know about minutae about slant drilling etc.etc. and the different type of minute details that where not around in the press at the time of the Gulf War 1?

You sound quite sure of yourself on alot of details? You sound like you've been working for security services at some point in your career.

We'd have heard about it by now if they had.

Just like we got to hear of the attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro etc.

They havent even done that with the worst of the Irish.

If I told you that, I'd have to kill you.

Known about that for whats getting on for half a century now.

All that stuff I mentioned was.

Bugger, the death squad has already received its orders. They'll be disguised as Jehovah's Witnesses. What look like kids are actually midgets. Shoot when you can see the whites of their eyes.

And dont take the coward's way out and slash your wrists either.

But that was not until ages afterwards.

Thats true. Yes your right.

ahh what else could you say really? If you where, what other answer could you say , except to turn it into a mild joke?

LOL you surely have a good sense of humour>

Trouble is you could be sitting down their at Langely HQ on your tea break, having some fun...and noone would be any the wiser..

I thought your points about iraq where all perfecty true though, I have to admit.

I suppose the kind of detail an analyst would know is similar to the kind of knowledge that an "intelligence analyst" would know.

Sure. Bit if Maggie had been into that sort of thing, we'd have heard about it by now.

We did hear about quite a bit of that sort of thing with the Irish.

I could have have you executed and most wouldnt assume worst when you stopped posting.

Amazing how long it takes some to notice |-)

We dont drink tea in Langley.

Indeed.

Thats always the best approach with smokescreens.

I'll let that go thru to the keeper.

Do you actually know who said that originally? I am trying to remember but can't....was it General Robert E. Lee?

See, only an anallyst would know that..So you admit it eh?

Also your posting in accordance to US time, right now you must be posting from the USA.

Sorry I'm not normally nosey, but, the way you speak, and the anaytical reasoning you have did'nt match up...so it aroused my curiousity, sorry if I'm being intrusively nosey.

Me. Oh, you mean the last sentance. Thats got one hell of an british colonial history. Not sure who said it first.

Bet you cant say who said 'fire when ready, Gridley' Bet you'll cheat and use google.

Fark, just tried that with 'Shoot when you can see the whites of their eyes' Guess who turns up ?

Down, boy.

Nope.

Guess again.

Hint: you wont be getting any offer from Langley any time soon.

It wasnt meant to...

Dont mind at all.

No I'm not going to cheat..that sounds like a fair and square challenge to me, I can't resist any intellectual challenge!

OK, how about this.......It must have been someone like Nelson........must have been...It could'nt have been mutch earlier.

No idea..I had an inkling it was Rober E Lee...

Australia?

See you say things that nobody would say, what made you say that? Well thats their loss!!! And I am not Joe King!

Rather later, actually. Dewey, Manila Bay, 1898

Try it.

The devil made me do it.

Stoppit at once.

Yup - so much for principles, eh?

So why am I not going to get any offers from Langley any time soon? Thats not very nice news? I thought at least I was going to get at least a chance to be a true patriot?

Wasn't that in the Clinton era? After Bush I?

We've noticed what a complete dud you are on where I'm from.

Even Jim Angleton could have done better than that pathetic effort.

You could slash your wrists or sumfin. At least do it outside like Kelly did so it doesnt make too much of a mess of the carpet.

You could volunteer for the 'strap on a bomb and blow yourself to bits' dept.

You'd probably qualify for that. If someone else retained the remote control for the firing mechanism.

Jonathan Bryce wrote in message news:wTZSa.2625$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net...

Like a whipped dog.

Slick certainly was the Prez who pulled the troops out of Somalia. Unlikely that Dubbya's dad, who had put them into Somalia, wouldnt have done so too tho.

Certainly Ronny Raygun pulled out of Beirut after the best part of 300 were blown to bits by a suicide bomber.

Some pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist/pathological liar claiming to be B J Foster wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com... just the puerile shit thats always pouring from the back of it.

Now that is a fine description of the vassal state sucking up to the powerful bully state.

regards Xylord

All through this thread you keep talking about 'pro western' government. As if that is necessarily good and the absence of 'pro western bad. But it is no pre-requisite for a good government. They don't necessarily have to be pro western. But the regular use of the term does show up a very limited cultural perspective.

regards Xylord

Nixon "engaged china" and Slick willy engaged china...it is a prooven fact that isolation and lack of trade are the classicial historical front runners to war.

I am implying by that that it follows on that by supporting the US, we therefore become strongly influential, their is no guarantee that the US public would have backed the campain without the Brits, and more to the point, the UK has been able to temper any ultra aggressivemoves the US makes.