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- From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Veteran's Day
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 19:52:50 -0500
- Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
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- dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis) writes:
- >As much as it pains me to say this, the dictionary bears out your description
- >of "valor" as accurate. I guess, when I included the Thing from
- >Kennebunkport in my list, I was thinking of his record as
- >commander-in-chief, specifically his practice of expressing his irritation
- >at former buddies who happen to be dictators by wiping out large numbers of
- >their civilian subjects and underarmed grunts.
-
- No, no, no. Bush is NOT a lawyer. The interactions of the US with other
- nations are not to be understood in terms third-rate lawyers feel
- comfortable with, such as "expressing irritation at former buddies".
-
- Yours in appreciation for a man who at least understood the relative values
- of blood and oil,
-
- --
- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
- "Zigzag, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one
- carrying the white man's burden." -- _The Devil's Dictionary_
-