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Old 14th Dec 2003, 13:44
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BlueWolf
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I bring you peace for our time....

The cheque's in the mail.....

I did not have sexual relations with that woman....

The Iraqis have weapons of mass destruction.....

The free world likes America and will happily be saved by her....

China is not a threat to world peace and stability....

Protracted nuclear exchange is possible within the laws of physics.....

Nope, I'm living in the 2030's, mate. The Soviet Union was an artificial creation cobbled together out of a whole lot of states, peoples and religions who didn't want a bar of each other, and held together by brutality.
China is an homogenous nation, and unlike the Soviet Union, it has embraced capitalism. Many political commentators have said many things which later turned out to be bollox.

The combined populations of the Axis Powers in WWII was less than 250 million. China alone is in excess of 1.3 billion. Nuclear war being, as it always was, impossible, any future conflict will be primarily conventional.

Set your alarm clock for 2033, my good pr00ne, and I'll tell you "I told you so".



The earth is flat, I tell you! FLAAAAAAT!!!!!!
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