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Author: Baba MungBaba Mung Date: May 30, 2008 18:46
"Charlie" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On May 30, 4:52 pm, Jim Chandler gte.net> wrote:> Baba Mung wrote:
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>>>Jim Chandler gte.net> writes>
>>>>JD Cooper wrote:
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>>>>The incendiaries were a form of cluster bomb. The main bomb was dropped
>>>>and broke open in freefall scattering the incendiary charges over a
>>>>greater area.
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>>>>Jim
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>>>Yep! We had some fall on Manchester. Have you ever been on the
>>>receiving end? Gives you a whole new perspective. ;-)
>>>--
>>>Gordon H
>>>(Remove "Invalid" to reply)
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>> Have aircraft ever bombed an American city? So far as I know all of the
>> USA's major engagements in the last 60 years have been conducted a long
>> long way from the American mainland. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq,
>> and
>> never against an enemy capable of putting a military aircraft over an
>> American city.
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>> Baba
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> And that has exactly WHAT to do with ANYTHING? Answer, NOTHING. We
> have been fortunate in that we have been able to take on our enemies and
> those of our allies on THEIR territory. The sinple answer is, if you
> don't want cluster, or any other kind of bombs, falling on your
> headbone, don't fuck with the U.S. or its friends. How hard is THAT to
> remember?
> of his filthy ass
> Jim- Hide quoted text -
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...The Soviet Union it is said had ample ability to hit our cities. Why
did the not do that.
Charlie
That's good question, Charlie. Maybe, contrary to everything that you had
been led to believe, the Soviet Union was less intent on military domination
of the world than on surviving the enmity of the US and its allies.
Baba
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