"Maxprop" wrote in message

| Winston Churchill, when notified of the beginning of an attack by German
| buzz bombs, told his aide that he was going to finish his cigar before
going
| to the bomb shelter. He did this repeatedly, ostensibly because smoking
was
| disallowed in the shelters. So can we presume that Churchill's brain was
| malfunctioning as well, and that he, too, was a semi-literate idiot?

Not the same at all....
Winston knew the full extent... this was not news.... it was a regular
occurence during the war!

CM

"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message

"Maxprop" wrote in message

| Winston Churchill, when notified of the beginning of an attack by German
| buzz bombs, told his aide that he was going to finish his cigar before
going
| to the bomb shelter. He did this repeatedly, ostensibly because smoking
was
| disallowed in the shelters. So can we presume that Churchill's brain
was
| malfunctioning as well, and that he, too, was a semi-literate idiot?

Not the same at all....
Winston knew the full extent... this was not news.... it was a regular
occurence during the war!

His untimely death could have altered the course of the war in Europe. IMO
his cavalier attitude to bombs exploding all around him was far more
egregious than Bush's 7 minutes delay to read to the kids.

Max