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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!lll-winken!taurus!rpwhite
- From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Advice?
- Message-ID: <5695@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:06:20 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.040733.9940@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <MJD.92Jul21171553@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
- Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
- Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test,soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.bih,alt.conspiracy
- Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA
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- mjd writes:
- )rpwhite writes:
- ) I have been asked to discover a potential
- ) enemy to justify a $300 billion defense budget and I think I'm over my
- ) head. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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- )Vietnam.
-
- )Worked good the first time, right?
-
- Yeah, but I think Vietnam was a 'one-trick pony'. Still, you got me
- thinking that a good con will work over and over again.
-
- Now if we could just get some ground troops in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
-
- Yeah, yeah that's the ticket!
- We've got a couple of ships over there. Can you say Tonkin Gulf
- Resolution? Let's see, it was the U.S.S. Maddox and U.S.S. Turner Joy if
- I recall. The suckers fell for it once eh? Let's see a little foreign
- adventure might help ole Georgie Porgie outta his hole right about now
- eh? Distract the electorate so to speak. It just might work.
-
- rp -- followups to alt.conspiracy.
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