<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 9/6/2003 8:35:18 PM GMT Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">>UN aims to clear Afghanistan of land mines in 10 years<BR>
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Damn imperialists. Kipling would have known what to say about them!<BR>
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Huh? And in a non-imperialist world, what, land mines would get cleaned up faster? Or every landmine recovered would be an automatic ticket to the maker country for compensation, a lower amount if recovered whole and unexploded, a higher amount if exploded and only partially recovered.<BR>
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Or would these vile weapons of gross destruction just not have gotten laid in the first place?<BR>
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DoreneC</FONT></HTML>