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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Subject: Re: Here's the problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.075739.14807@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- References: <1h8trtINNdam@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec23.065614.12474@genie.slhs.udel.edu> <1hafmgINNf6p@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:57:39 GMT
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- In article <1hafmgINNf6p@transfer.stratus.com> cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares) writes:
- }In article <1992Dec23.065614.12474@genie.slhs.udel.edu>, starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
- }> }>Is this a joke or have you been residing on Mars or something. The war
- }> }>on guns has been going on since before I was born!
- }
- }> Yes, but has it been declared?
- }
- }What difference does it make?
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- See the smiley? I intended to be humorous.
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- }> Close, but not quite a declaration, eh:-)?
- }
- }Since 1950, the US has been involved in four real, MILITARY wars, and not
- }a ONE of them was ever declared. The people killed in them were no less
- }dead because of it. Apparently, formal conflict etiquette went out with
- }top hats.
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- My point was to bring out the irrelevance of declaring wars.
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