Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?
Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
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On Saturday 10 May 2003 7:34 pm, dep wrote:
> begin Andreas Pour's quote:
> | It seems another Iraq lie has withered under the rays of sunlight:
> | Halliburton, it seems, will "own" ("possession is nine-tenths of
> | the law") the Iraqi oil instead of the Iraqi people.
>
> why would you quote a misquote? the actual phrase is "possession is
> nine parts of the law." as to whether this comprises more or less
> than 90 percent of it depends on how many parts the law has, though
> i've never heard of anyone who limited it to 10.
I have. The saying has always been 'nine tenths' around here, although I've no
idea where or how it originated. It's pretty much irrelevant anyway; with
"nine tenths" it's pretty close to fact, with "nine parts" it fails to say
anything at all.
--
dan
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