Colin,

You posted at the dead thread,,,

colin

Senior Member

Registered: Jul 2001

Location: London, UK

Posts: 228

A-1,

I did not reply earlier because I felt that there was an element of hysteria in the posts both by you and by Paolo. I enjoy the archive and did not want to run the risk that I would get myself banned.

From past arguments in which you have been involved I am pretty sure that a lot of your more extreme opinions are expressed to provoke a response and may be, shall we say, a little more forceful than you truly believe.

I have no doubt that you are an American Patriot and sincerely believe in the US, in the same way that I am intensely proud of my own country. We may no longer be the great power that we once were, but we have done many things of which we can be justly proud. Of course, we have also done a lot of things about which we should be ashamed.

The hurt which Americans feel over 9/11 is genuinely shared by people all over the world. The fear is that President Bush may attempt to use that fear to involve the US and others in ill thought out action. As you say, if Bush mounted an action against Iraq he would gain a lot of support in America. At least until the body bags started to arrive. The fear is that at that point the US will pull out leaving any allies high and dry.

Finally, I should apologize. I should never have described your statements as 'utter crap'. Crap maybe, but utter crap? No!

LOL

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Colin

No apology was necessary, but in the interest of fair play, I apologize for all of MY offenses, both real and imaginary...

Sorry for (REAL + i) = all possibilities.

It is just that sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I don't.

Instead, I feel crappy...

Back to the subject, however....

Looks like on the latest news that George W. isn't up to play the shell game with Saddam...well, I had already supposed that was how it would be...

A-1

Dear MR A-1:

You scared the fuckin shit out of me (well, nearly:D) and now suddenly your all tame again!

Could you please tell me what it was you were waiting for?

If all you wanted was to stimulate a discussion, would you PLEASE drop me a private note next time so I can RECOGNIZE! :redbounce

I have a certain confidence in you but since that also covers your mental abilitys I have no problem assuming that youre mind has really suddenly and unexpetedly SNAPPED like it seemed to have and I have truly better things to do than to care for you mental insanity if it's nothing but pretended!

:withstupi

You better don't expect me to show consideration for your strange extreme FEELINGS for your strange COUNTRY any longer at least NOT if more important topics are concerned, in other words: Any!

So if you now please excuse me, TOWARITSCH A-1, I'm going to the cellar (to scare Andrew away *g) and you better don't follow without at least one Caipirinha as an apology!

NO, I want to pour that away to show you how angry I was but I don't want to waste something I would really like to have...

...

GUS

I am sorry if I didn't behave according to your expectations.

If you stood just once and stared into the smoldering pit that was once the World Trade Center, I think that you'd understand me better...

There hasn't been such a thing in the USA since the Civil War ended in 1865.

A-1

Sorry again, my friend. Everybody has their moments.

I was the one who shut off the thread at the request of several others. At the time, I was awaiting confirmation to form the new forums. I should have moved the thread.

Aplogies to A-1 over this, but the thread was generating too much off-topic flaming for the forum that it was in. Hence the creation of The Cellar, an idea which I 'borrowed' from reading a few other Bulletin Boards 'out there'.

True, we do all have our moments, me included.

I sure knew you guys were sweet!



gus

To quote Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame,

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

Well, you get the point.

BUT he didn't say a thing about creating NEW forums to rant in.

:redbounce