Re: Oops!

Disregarding the fact that bathing cats is truly a fine art and an exploi=
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of Oriental patience in itself, and yet another matter about which master=
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Doug has much to learn.

As for the Chinese, they were a celestial people, and would never even ha=
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flushed Doug down a toilet, had the technology been afforded them at the=20
time...something which to us may seem irresistibly tempting, but which wo=
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surely have met with the beatific censorship of these marvellous Chinese=20
princess, as expressed with gallantry in the Book of Pekingduck.

--Monica

>From: [email protected]
>To: Doug Millison <[email protected]>
>CC: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Oops!
>Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:03:51 -0400
>
>These and a score of other wedding guest victims of a recent
>mortar accident SHOULD provide ample evidence of the folly of
>demanding pyrotechnic ballistics with your nuptials....I challenge
>anyone to cite the Koran on the topic......
>
>What did they do before the chinese blessed us with gunpowder?
>Wash cats?
>
>love,
>cfa
>
>
>
> >
> > Civilian catastrophe as US bombs Afghan wedding
> >
> > =B7 250 civilians reported dead or injured
> > =B7 Witnesses say attack lasted 2 hours
> > =B7 Pentagon: 'One bomb went astray'
> >
> > Staff and agencies
> > Monday July 1, 2002
> >
> > US helicopter gunships and jets today fired on an Afghan wedding,
> > killing or injuring at least 250 civilians, witnesses and hospital
> > officials said. [...] Most of the dead and injured were women and
> > children. "We have many children who are injured and who have no
> > family," nurse Mohammed Nadir said. "Their families are gone. The
> > villagers brought these children and they have no parents. Everyone
> > says that their parents are dead." [...] At Bagram air base north of
> > Kabul, the US military spokesman, Colonel Roger King, said an AC-130
> > gunship, a B-52 bomber and other aircraft joined the attack after
> > coalition ground forces came under fire. [...]
> >
> > ...continues at
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,747529,00.html
> >
> >
> > also:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-afghan-usa=
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> > bombing.ht ml
> >
> >
> > Pragmatically speaking, this is probably a good thing, considering ho=
w
> > many lives the U.S. military action is probably saving -- what's a fe=
w
> > hundred civilian casualties, after all, when you're hard at work
> > slaying evil-doers and keeping the world safe for democracy.
> >




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