On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 16:25:35 -0000, Peter Sammon
wrote:

Kurt Hamster wrote in
:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:39:37 -0000, Peter Sammon used
to say...

Ian, Ian, Ian, things are always easy when you ignore the obvious.
Ian, I really hate to point it out, but here's a fact that should be
part of a foundation for any argumentative starting point but: Britain
has no space program. Nothing.


Why would we want one?

Sad commentary by the descendant of a once proud race of explorers, now a
near third world country relegated to "America's Poodle".

Interesting idea... Of course the USA actually carries all the
stigmata of a third world country. It has the rich elite and it has
the huge population living in abject poverty in shanty towns - I've
seen them, unfortunately.

As for GB being a near-third world country, as tiny as we are we have
the world's fourth biggest economy, so no, I really don't think so.

Of course you are right in a way about the poodle thing. Tony B. Liar
is GWB's poodle, but that certainly doesn't go for the rest of us.

d

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