Subj : Re: Mandrake vs Suse
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Gerard Wassink
Date : Fri Aug 27 2004 09:19 am

Op Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:52:58 GMT schreef James:

> First, some have said that Americans are ignorant of the rest of the 
> world. That's a reasonable statement, if you can prove that you aren't 
> ingorant yourself. I ask simply if you have traveled the world, lived in 
> Iraq, US, or any place else. Do you truly know what it's like to live in 
> a country other than your own? When put in this prespective, I think it 
> will become quite obvious that none of us are qualified to call anybody 
> else ignorant, so let's just assume that we are all ignorant.

Reminder, I stated that "if he (SkipC) would be an example of an average
American (which I do not believe BTW), I'd think you people are dumb and
ignorant, etc".

I am willing to give everybody the benefit of the doubt to begin with.
Some of the obvious ignorant remarks he made just pissed me off!
 
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> Some make fun of us for using Russian inteligence. First, we didn't get 
> all of our intel from Russia. Second, the intel which we got from 
> various countries all said that Iraq had WMDs, and indicated that Saddam 
> was planning to use them in the near future. There was overwelming 
> reason to declare war. Sure now it doesn't seem that there was much 
> threat, but hindsight is always 20/20.

If it were that obvious, why did not the UN and the rest of the world
join y'all in this pursue with flying colors? Why were you people the
lone rangers of the world? Obviously the other intelligence services
knew something y'all didn't, or they found your "evidence" not strong
enough...

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