In article <1159250596.300421.322100@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"FRAN" <Fran.Beta@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Mad Dog wrote:
> > The Nuclear Deterrent is the best weapon we have ever had, it has also
meant
> > "peace in our time" for many of us. Yes there have been small wars
but the
> > continent of Europe has never had such a sustained period of peace.
In the
> > past all the continent of Europe has ever known is war, death,
destruction
> > and decimation. We have kept the continent free of war and this has
given
> > us a chance to live in freedom and also to reap economic benefits.
> >
> > Socialist MP's wish to take all this away from us and their policy is
to
> > disarm us, such horse**** has not been spoken since Chamberlain met
Von
> > Ribbentrop and Hitler and the gullible old fool got hoodwinked. We
can not
> > afford to stand down our nuclear deterrent, we must spend more money
to
> > advance and modernize our warheads.
> >
> > Quite simply, the nuclear deterrent is the best thing since sliced
bread.
>
>
> Perhaps what's needed then is a nuclear proliferation treaty, in which
> every country gets a whole bunch of them, along with the capacity to
> deliver them onto the cities of their neighbours and adversaries.
>
> To borrow from the classics ...
>
> If warheads be the stuff of peace,
> bring them on,
> Give me excess of them; that surfeiting,
> The appetite may sicken, and so die.
> That cloud again, it had a dying fall;
> O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
> That breathes upon a nest of mushrooms
>
> ...
>
> So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is high fantastical.
>
> Fran
That's similar to my answer to the Olympics doping problem. Let everyone
do whatever drugs they can. Then set up categories. How about, gold
medal for the best of shot-put while stoned on grass. What do you think?
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