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Old August 31st 04, 09:16 PM
clifto
 
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George Ashley wrote:
"I don?t think you can win [the war on terror]. But I think you can create
conditions so that the ? those who use terror as a tool are ? less
acceptable in parts of the world.?

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/bre...p-195190c.html

Whoops! Hmmm.

I dunno. What would that qualify as? A flip? Or a flop? Or maybe a floop?


It looks very much to me like a clipped quote. The original is really
weaselly; it tries to make it look like they asked him what it would
take to win the war on terror, but if you look closely, the war on
terror wasn't mentioned in quotes, just after the fact. What they
asked him was, "Can we win?", according to their own quotes. But
somehow I have the feeling we'd have heard something entirely different
had we been there at the time.

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John Kerry walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Why the long face?"