"Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP]" <
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> Tony Raven wrote:
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> [snip]
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> > > However, what I thought was incredibly sad, was the sight of Comical Ali reduced to,
> > > effectively, a white-haired old man.
> >
> > Not really sad at all. Putting aside his comical briefings he was underneath an extremely nasty
> > person. The only good thing about such
people
> > is they all eventually grow old and die but unfortunately never soon
enough
> > for the people they terrorise. I shed no tears for Pol Pot, Honecker, Ceausescu, Hoxha or
> > Comical Ali.
>
> What is your evidence for asserting that he was an extremely nasty person
?
> As far as I could tell, from watching him on television, he was doing
exactly
> what his counterpart would have done in any country that was currently
being
> invaded : reassuring his countrymen that all was well and that the
invaders
> would without doubt be repelled. If (G@d forbid), Britain were in the
same
> position, do you really think that Alistair Campbell would be giving
televised
> broadcasts telling Britons that they were doomed, should give up, and that resistance was
> hopeless ?
>
> Philip Taylor
I thought he was already doing that ;-) Dave.