Near the end of an extremely important discourse the great man of state stumbling on a beautiful hollow phrase falls over it and undone with gaping mouth shows his teeth and the dental decay of his peaceful reasoning exposes the nerve of war the delicate question of money
Grant Lee wrote:
> The Australian: US slip exposes tank 'deal' [
27jan04 ]
>
> [This shows the extent to which Australian forces
have become a US "foreign
> legion" --- the Leopard 2 appears to be both better
and more suited to
> conditions in SE Asia and the SW Pacific than the
M1.]
>
> US slip exposes tank 'deal'
> By John Kerin
> 27jan04
>
> A SENIOR US military commander says Australia has
agreed to buy more than
> 100 US tanks for $780 million ($US600 million) in
comments that pre-empt a
> deal.