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- From: jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (Jeff Davidson)
- Subject: Re: Advice?
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:02:33 GMT
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- In article <5695@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
- (rpwhite) writes:
- *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?
- *
- *)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.
-
- Well, it appears to me ol' George has already found his foreign adventure;
- I was almost asleep last night, and am not really sure, but did I or did I not
- catch HNN saying something about Iraq's refusal of UN inspections may lead to
- more military intervention?
-
- And I agree; the scary part is that it just might work.
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