You obviously missed the absurdity of Irene's statement and my drawing attention to it. _____ From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judith Evans Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 6:17 AM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Barnett's Blueprint for Action LH>And we bailed them out both times, not all of them, just the LH>ones that were losing. Because the ones that were winning attacked you. L.H.> Look at all the troops we lost bailing the European losers out LH>in two of their World Wars. US troops dead, 400,000. Russian troops dead, 20 million (and 20 million civilians) LH> Look at all the troops we lost in bailing LH> out China by warring against the Japanese. You declared war on Japan because Japan attacked you. (You didn't declare war on Hitler till even later than that.)