Paratrooper

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ July 30 2002,23:26)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Bush and Hussein, Bush and Hussein. Go together like Chirac and Le Pen. This what I tell you brother. you can't have one without the other.<span id='postcolor'> LOL! That may be true, Bush may politicaly need Hussain, But I don't think Saddam needs George.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm sure he was very well taken care of by the Soviet state<span id='postcolor'> A concrete flat and extra food coupons.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ran @ July 30 2002,23:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 30 2002,233)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">We are a collection of nations who work together. Our nations are the safest, most comfortabe in the world thanks to a little planning and responsibility.<span id='postcolor'> wich nations ? the UK ones or the EU ones ?<span id='postcolor'> EU

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ July 30 2002,19:08)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USSoldier11B @ July 30 2002,09:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I am sorry to disagree. Sweden has nothing to do with Bosnia and Kosovo. Europe is not one country, if you dídn't know. <span id='postcolor'> No, but the EU might as well be. I sit and watch as the tendrils of socialism slip through Western Europe. Slowly...ohhh..sooo...slowly your rights are being taken away. Socialism might work for a small microcasm culture like Sweden, but not for a larger more culturaly diverse nation, such as the U.S. People are way to greedy and ambitious for it to ever work. It's a noble idea, but impractical. I fear the EU will one day be consolidated into one socialist state. If it truly works how it's supposed to then great....but I doubt it. Socialism is just another tool used by the elite totalitarian to control the masses.<span id='postcolor'> ooooh...evil socialism! It's a terrible thing to be able to see a doctor when you need one without being told that you dont have insurance..so go away.  It's terrible to know that if the actions of another nation cause one of your industries to flounder, you will get financial support while you find another job.  It's terrible when you can have a place for your child to go so you can work rather than be on support.  It's terrible that drug prices are so good, that people from a neighboring country flock to your border cities because they are tired of being screwed at home. Socialism is about nothing more than taking the next step in human development and making the concept of society caring for all of its parts more important than greed.  But it is villified by the right wing because it means that instead of being able to tax shelter all their money and create a virtual monarchy of the wealthy, they are made to pay into programs based on what they can afford.  You say that socialism is a tool of the totalitarian elite to control the masses...but how is the laissez faire capitalism system that you espouse any different.  Your wealthy are so entrenched now that you have ever bit as much a 'totalitarian elite'. And you know what? For a socialist..even I sometimes get grumpy about how many taxes I have to pay.  But for the most part that is because my eyes arent blinded to the inefficiency of beaurocracy of any sort (10,000 Pentagon Hammer, anyone? )<span id='postcolor'> To describe Europe as socialist is pushing the envelope a little. Right wingers in Spain, Italy, Austria and elsewhere. Plus massive gains among fascists. All the things Warin describes are the product of sound social responsibility not any real socialist doctrine. I don't like the idea of an EU superstate, infact I hate it, most people in Britian do. We are a collection of nations who work together. Our nations are the safest, most comfortabe in the world thanks to a little planning and responsibility.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (MDRZulu @ July 30 2002,22:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Despite the success of the AK-47, Kalashnikov has never earned any money from his invention<span id='postcolor'> That kind of amazes me.<span id='postcolor'> Thats how communism works.

Try RailTrack, then you will know hell on rails!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tex [uSMC] @ July 30 2002,02:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aculaud @ July 30 2002,01:52)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ July 29 2002,16:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Any ideas on who the next bond should be?<span id='postcolor'> Thats such a tough call! A personal fav of mine was Roger Moore, and then Sean Conery.<span id='postcolor'> Roger Moore!! He's the anti-Bond!! Sean Connery is 007, period. And R is going to do just fine, because John Cleese can make anything funny  <span id='postcolor'> Roger Moore! It was proven by scientists last year!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aculaud @ July 30 2002,02:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Die Alive @ July 29 2002,17:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think that movie, xXx, will beat James Bond in the box office.<span id='postcolor'> It may gross more, but that movies gonna suck soooo bad. Its trying to combine james bond with rambo with extreme sports with sex appeal. What this adds up to is no story line of worth what so ever!<span id='postcolor'> Absolutley! I hate these awful formulaic teen-crap films.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Lazarus_Long @ July 30 2002,01:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Where is that garage with the motorcycle? Â I ran around everywhere looking for it.<span id='postcolor'> The central compund of Petrovice.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Die Alive @ July 30 2002,02:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (MDRZulu @ July 29 2002,193)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">They gotta be able to sound british atleast, matt damon cant do that.<span id='postcolor'> How bout Brad Pitt? lol -=Die Alive=-<span id='postcolor'> I'm going to cry...

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Thanks paratrooper, now i'm scared to take a bath! LOL! <span id='postcolor'> Lol! Perhaps yo should be... This little bastard might get up th plug hole! Its the cookie cutter shark.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aculaud @ July 30 2002,01:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 29 2002,16:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I do hate sharks, I can't enjoy swimming in the tropics at all. After seeing the film of that massive Great White in the Med I don't like there as much now!<span id='postcolor'> I know! I hate the water enough as it is just because i'v almost drowned a couple times, but on top of that, there are animals in there that want to eat me!<span id='postcolor'> Drowning would be paradise for me instead of seeing a massive shark in the water!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 30 2002,01:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Kegetys @ July 30 2002,00:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Looks like DKM has the same problem, the model is ok but the textures look bad.<span id='postcolor'> The textures look very good to me.<span id='postcolor'> I think so too. Although it would be nice to have one without the KFOR lettering, as well as that one.

I do hate sharks, I can't enjoy swimming in the tropics at all. After seeing the film of that massive Great White in the Med I don't like there as much now!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Col. Kurtz @ July 30 2002,00:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Been the Commander in Chief of Defence would be a bloody desk job! Your not a desk warroir are you? As for training NZ flyers in Britain....... I think the current NZ Gov wants as little to do with the motherland as it can. Remember what happened when the Queen went there last? Go to Australia, and she gets all the smarmy Right Wing Nazi wanna be Liberal politicians(the ruling party in Aus) actualing touching her majesty! What did you choose Arty for? Dont you want to be close and personal in your killing? prefer to do it at a safe range of about 20km? Go out there and bayonet something! Dont go deaf around the big guns! If you want big guns, do something useful like join the Tank Corps...... Tanks...... I like........ Challenger 2's...........<span id='postcolor'> There is plenty up close work in the RA! Northern Ireland, Peace keeping in the former Yugoslavia, recce work, close defense of the guns, one Royal Horse Artillery officer is Mayor of Pristina! As for being CDS, that would be at the and of the career, if I was very fortunate. Wielding the might of all Her Majesty's forces would be good. Although the decisions come straight from Number 10. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Wing Nazi wanna be Liberal politicians<span id='postcolor'> Are you talking about the Conservative party? what are you going on about!?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 29 2002,19:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Some quotes from her site: (On Afganistan) </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. <span id='postcolor'> (On war on terror) </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> AS PUNDITS MULL whether America's next target in the war on terrorism should be Iraq or a smaller quarry first – such as the Sudan or Somalia – it's time to consider another petri dish of ferocious anti-American hatred and terrorist activity. The Bush doctrine is: We are at war not only with the terrorists, but also with those who harbor them. We've got to attack France. Having exhausted itself in a spirited fight with the Nazis in the last war, France cannot work up the energy to oppose terrorism. For decades now, France has nurtured, coddled and funded Islamic terrorists. (Moreover, the Great Satan is getting a little sick of our McDonald's franchises being attacked on behalf of notoriously inefficient French dairy farmers.) <....> If this is a war against terrorism and not a Eurocentric war against Islam, the conclusion is ineluctable: We must attack France. What are they going to do? Fight us? <span id='postcolor'> (on the role of the military) </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">For eight years, Clinton caused America to retreat in the face of terrorism. He used the best fighting force on the globe to build urinals in Bosnia. Eventually, he lobbed a few cruise missiles in the general vicinity of Islamic terrorists – but only in a desperate attempt to distract from his impeachment. Members of the Clinton Legacy Project at the Washington Post and New York Times are trying to blame Clinton-haters (normal people) for Clinton's appalling negligence. But if it weren't for us, he never would have bombed anything. Also, we didn't make him meet with Monica Lewinsky more often than he met with his first CIA director. (Wayne Newton is probably a perfectly nice fellow. I take it back.) At least our Northern Alliance allies understand that the point of the Pentagon is not to build urinals in the Third World. <span id='postcolor'> Well, what can one say? I think that Tex described the phenomenon very good. I still cannot help but to wonder: Is she really serious or is she just being provocative?<span id='postcolor'> If those are her words then she strikes me as monstrously ill-informed and stupid.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Dinger @ July 29 2002,16:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My money's on a fishing accident too. Troska is retired Special Forces of some sort. He's an old buddy of Gastovski from some previous conflict. Â But the voice for ol' Vic doesn't sound like some hayseed from southern georgia (btw, some mighty fine BBQ in Southern Georgia). Â Mr. Troska could have picked up RP English at the Public High Schools in inner-city Detroit. This is the grounds for the SAS speculation. On the other hand, OF is anything but realistic when it comes to units and their designations. Â Gastovski and his buddies aren't Rangers, Seals, GBs, Delta or even just "Special Forces"; they're "Black Ops". As for the Res. storyline; I suspect the campaign got altered to fit time constraints. Â The ending just doesn't feel right. Â It's like there's a "concluding" mission that got axed.<span id='postcolor'> Britain has several special forces teams (not just the SAS). As well as highly secret squads such as the "Firm" and the "Increment" that MI5 and MI6 operate.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Longinius @ July 29 2002,13:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"Did your time at school teach you anything about life IYO?." - Teachers are underpaid. - Most kids are assholes. Those that arent assholes are stupid. The rest are plain weird. - With proper communications skills you can get anywhere. And get away with anything. - If a teacher leaves the locker with pens and erasers unlocked, take some! That is, if you can get away with it. - The winner writes history. - Most facts change over time. - The faster you run, the less people can catch you and beat you up. "If there is something you think should be taught you in school that is'nt. what would it be?" - Self defense (martial arts) - Discipline, Restraint, Respect and Compassion - Teamwork - Reality!!<span id='postcolor'> Most of that sounds more like a prison! I thought school was ok, but what I did object to was the unneccesary work we had to do often, homework just for the sake of it. I didn't even mind the uniform!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ran @ July 29 2002,13:02)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BoonieRat @ July 29 2002,12:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">If there is something you think should be taught you in school that is'nt. what would it be?.<span id='postcolor'> how to use explosives and firearms ... <span id='postcolor'> Or how to spit out of your nose.

I was taught how do do more complex mathmatics and write properly. I can do all track and field sports as well as most other British games. Discpline, history and a miriad other things. While I didn't always like it, it was useful.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">English army(from Scotland<span id='postcolor'> BRITISH ARMY, I know at least one Scotsman that would go crazy to hear that! I bet NZ could be fixed up with fighters, they could even train in Britain. Some real crap houses operate good fighters, I'm sure NZ could! If I was a Brigadeer General I'd be out having fun! Anyway you never know, maybe one-day! Of course the best job ever would be the Cheif of Defense Staff-Commanding the entire armed forces on behalf of Her Majesty.

So do you just ask if you can be a mod, and then they go and decide?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ July 29 2002,05:36)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And it's not that I don't like to read...I devoured stuff like Lord of the Flies, 1984, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22. And those are just some of the books in English I've liked <span id='postcolor'> Great books.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ July 29 2002,05:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 29 2002,05:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Its good to learn the whole range of English.<span id='postcolor'> yea yea, so ye sayeth, byt doth it helpeth if thou doth not use it in thy every day life? If you want to learn Shakespeare, go nuts, but it's not practical English anymore. It should be optional. I'll tell you, on the first day of my Grade 13 English Writers class, when the teacher said "No more Shakespeare", we all cheered.<span id='postcolor'> The language really isn't that much different. Once you get into it it seems normal.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ July 29 2002,05:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 29 2002,04:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I feel realy sorry for people who can't appreciate Shakespeare.<span id='postcolor'> I find Shakespearian English as difficult to read as Russian (ie not very freaking easy for me). Some of the stories are ok, but just the sheer difference of the language makes me think it should be taught in a separate class. Stick to Mark Twain, George Orwell, ect in English.<span id='postcolor'> Its good to learn the whole range of English.