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Listed below are comments made by ChristianLShea between Thursday, 1st May 2008 and Tuesday, 3rd March 2009.

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Iraq and Ozymandias 03:25am on 03 Mar 2009 Actually, Justin, this thing that you wanted me to look at (George W. Bush: "On the first day of the campaign, Marine units were ordered to secure 600 Iraqi oil wells and prevent environmental disaster. And that mission was accomplished."-- address delivered on 3 April 2003 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) most reminds me of this (Calvin Coolidge: "The business of America is business." -- speech, Jan. 17, 1925, to the Society of American Newspaper Editors), which may be found here (http://www.bartleby.com/66/21/14821.html), just as THIS THING (General Maxwell D. Taylor: "I have been among the officers who have said that a large land war in Asia is the last thing we should undertake. Most of us, when we use that term, are thinking about getting into a land war against Red China. That’s the only power in Asia which would require us to use forces in very large numbers. I was slow in joining with those who recommended the introduction of ground forces in South Vietnam. But it became perfectly clear that because of the rate of infiltration from North Vietnam to South Vietnam something had to be done:" interview, “Top Authority Looks at Vietnam War and Its Future,” U.S. News & World Report, February 21, 1966, p. 42.) quoted at http://www.bartleby.com/73/1887.html, most reminds me of THIS OTHER THING: 'Vizzini's advice on not getting involved in a land war in Asia is derived from principles stated by Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery (Viscount Alamein) in a speech in the House of Lords on 30 May 1962: "Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war is: 'Do not march on Moscow.' ... Rule 2 is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.'"' which I quote from this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/trivia. Since I contributed THAT to the Internet's usually muddled pool of muddied quotations, I think I daresay that Field Marshal Montgomery, having once actually won a war, had the right of it in 1962, and that after 1966, only a complete idiot or a True Blue Draft Dodger like George W. Bush could still believe that Vizzini was wrong, and that committing American land armies to a war in Asia could be anything other than a complete catastrophe.
Paper Monitor 02:54am on 08 Oct 2008 Octavian Augustus was also famous for having a large army destroyed by barbarians and for having a family of poisoners. Is he REALLY the sort of person one wants a municipal leader to emulate?
Your Letters 04:10am on 23 Aug 2008 Mike of London was hardly "pettifogging" -- I thought that London had been hit by terrorists again ... or that floods had truly paralyzed the country. BBC should be ashamed of itself for posting such a Murdochian headline. "Zero growth" is not national paralysis!
Some Friday Fun? 10:49pm on 25 Jul 2008 (With apologies to Jay Leno's writers)

The Iraq War: "Waking up in bed next to a hot woman whose Adam's apple you finally see."
About James Reynolds 02:45am on 01 May 2008 Mr. Reynolds, I loathe and detest the Communist bandit regime, and have done so since childhood. I respect your work, however, and hope that you won't allow your investigative edge to be worn down.

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