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To: SunkenCiv

All of which could have been avoided, if people had been willing to sit down and negotiate with the vikings. [/s]


3 posted on 07/09/2008 9:57:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Sanctions. They should have had sanctions.

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6 posted on 07/09/2008 10:00:45 AM PDT by weegee (Maybe 143 days wasnÂ’t enough experience.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
All of which could have been avoided, if people had been willing to sit down and negotiate with the vikings. [/s]

Not possible, The vikings were bitter people, clinging to their weapons and their cod.

A wayfarer should not walk unarmed,
But have his weapons to hand:
He knows not when he may need a spear,
Or what menace meet on the road.

12 posted on 07/09/2008 10:08:17 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law)
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To: ClearCase_guy

FYI - The Irish town of Baltimore was ransacked/looted and the entire town’s population was carried off as slaves by the barbary (muslim) pirates in 1631...


15 posted on 07/09/2008 10:19:54 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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