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You post here! Proof enough.
In article , OoozeOne wrote: On 24 Aug 2004 16:12:46 -0700, (Jonathan Ganz) scribbled thusly: That's pretty scary... I suggest immediately anonymity or a lobotomy whichever is less expensive. $9/month for complete anonymity and I can't get a lobotomy without proof that I'm a little crazy :-) -- Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m) http://www.sailnow.com "If there's no wind, row." |
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Half Norwegian half Brit. Or when in Australia I say, "Your worst bloody
nightmare, have Yank/half Pommie. M |
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![]() Half Pint? Half Yank/Have Pomeranian? http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/pomeranian.htm Michael, you will have to shave your beard, keep your mouth closed, and wear elevator shoes. "Michael" wrote Half Norwegian half Brit. Or when in Australia I say, "Your worst bloody nightmare, have Yank/half Pommie. |
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![]() Joe wrote: Is it because the world understands that the Islamic fanatics are so dogmatic that there is no way they will yield? That is unless the west just decides enough is enough and decides to completly eradicate them. Do you not see that they may think the same of _your_ policies? Do you not see how objectionable and inflammatory it is to even begin to talk of "eradicating them"? Cheers |
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Nav wrote in message ...
Joe wrote: Is it because the world understands that the Islamic fanatics are so dogmatic that there is no way they will yield? That is unless the west just decides enough is enough and decides to completly eradicate them. Do you not see that they may think the same of _your_ policies? Do you not see how objectionable and inflammatory it is to even begin to talk of "eradicating them"? Like they eradicated most the people in the twin towers? I'm mnot talking of Muslins or Islamic people Nav. I'm talking about Jihad Islamic fanatics. Gee Im sorry if I upset the feeling of mad dog killers dancing in the streets celebrating the deaths of 1000's of American. Can you forgive me? Joe Cheers |
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"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message ...
"Joe" wrote in message | And our Nuking of Japan had nothing to do with payback. It was a way | to stop their fanatical willingness to defend the homeland to the last | child. | Kamaksie planes boats ect and even small children were ready to die | for the Hiro****o. More Japanese died at okinowa then in both nuke | bombing combined. So one can say that by nuking japan into submission | we saved many 100's of thousands of Japanese and the same number of | Americans and allies. You're kidding me right? More info for your Mooron. Okinawa was the largest amphibious invasion of the Pacific campaign and the last major campaign of the Pacific War. More ships were used, more troops put ashore, more supplies transported, more bombs dropped, more naval guns fired against shore targets than any other operation in the Pacific. More people died during the Battle of Okinawa than all those killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Casualties totaled more than 38,000 Americans wounded and 12,000 killed or missing, more than 107,000 Japanese and Okinawan conscripts killed, and perhaps 100,000 Okinawan civilians who perished in the battle. The battle of Okinawa proved to be the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. Thirty-four allied ships and craft of all types had been sunk, mostly by kamikazes, and 368 ships and craft damaged. The fleet had lost 763 aircraft. Total American casualties in the operation numbered over 12,000 killed [including nearly 5,000 Navy dead and almost 8,000 Marine and Army dead] and 36,000 wounded. Navy casualties were tremendous, with a ratio of one killed for one wounded as compared to a one to five ratio for the Marine Corps. Combat stress also caused large numbers of psychiatric casualties, a terrible hemorrhage of front-line strength. There were more than 26,000 non-battle casualties. In the battle of Okinawa, the rate of combat losses due to battle stress, expressed as a percentage of those caused by combat wounds, was 48% [in the Korean War the overall rate was about 20-25%, and in the Yom Kippur War it was about 30%]. American losses at Okinawa were so heavy as to illicite Congressional calls for an investigation into the conduct of the military commanders. Not surprisingly, the cost of this battle, in terms of lives, time, and material, weighed heavily in the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan just six weeks later. Japanese human losses were enormous: 107,539 soldiers killed and 23,764 sealed in caves or buried by the Japanese themselves; 10,755 captured or surrendered. The Japanese lost 7,830 aircraft and 16 combat ships. Since many Okinawan residents fled to caves where they subsequently were entombed the precise number of civilian casualties will probably never be known, but the lowest estimate is 42,000 killed. Somewhere between one-tenth and one-fourth of the civilian population perished, though by some estimates the battle of Okinawa killed almost a third of the civilian population. According to US Army records during the planning phase of the operation, the assumption was that Okinawa was home to about 300,000 civilians. At the conclusion of hostilities around 196,000 civilians remained. However, US Army figures for the 82 day campaign showed a total figure of 142,058 civilian casualties, including those killed by artillery fire, air attacks and those who were pressed into service by the Japanese army. |
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![]() "Jonathan Ganz" wrote: I believe Mississippi still flies the Confederate flag... Wrong again! That would be Georgia. Maybe you should try google before you make an idiot out of yourself again. Uhh, never mind, it's too late for that... LP |
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![]() "Joe" wrote Then there are the cheers and laughter in the gaza strip when they heard of the terrorist attack on 911. Well let me describe what I felt when I saw those gleefull Palestineans full of joy when they learned of all those innocent civilians that were *INTENTIONALLY* killed? I felt like I wanted to go straight there in palestine with an axe and a flame thrower and commit my own personal jihad. Me too Joe. I wonder what Jon thought while he watched it? Scott Vernon Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_ |
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In article , OzOne wrote:
Tell me Joe, If a country with far superior forces invaded the US without cause, occupied your country then attempted to change your way of life to theirs, Would YOU use every possible method to get them out? No. He would just get back in line at KFC. -- Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m) http://www.sailnow.com "If there's no wind, row." |
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