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To: Bob J
Actually, I was the captain of my debate team in High School. You made the assertions. It's up to you to back them up with something that at least resembles a fact.

You didn't do so, so there's really nothing to 'debate'. You didn't provide one single statistic, no footnotes, or any reference material at all. I shot down your unproven assertions and pure conjecture one by one.

Take this one: " We cannot win an all out war with 1 billion people." This is an not only an unproven assertion, it's flat out wrong. The Axis powers numbered very nearly a billion in WWII, and we defeated them utterly. It was a long, hard, ugly slog, but we did defeat them.

We don't lack the means, our nuclear submarines alone possess more than enough destructive power to destroy ever single bastion of Islamic government on the face of the earth 3 or 4 times over.

If you'd like, I'll do the math for you. One Ohio class sub carries 24 nuclear missiles, each with between 12 and 18 warheads yielding 150 kilotons each. Each of those warheads can be independently targeted.

We don't lack the means to destroy Islam as a 'world religion', we lack the political will. There's a huge difference between the two.

Now, when you have some sort of cogent responses to what I wrote back to you, we can continue the discussion. Until then, please spare me poorly written sentences such as:
"You have no supporting documentation against my assertions as I have for them.

I can't even figure out what that is supposed to mean, let alone respond to it.

Thanks in advance.

L

136 posted on 02/21/2005 10:13:03 PM PST by Lurker ("We're all sinners, but jerks revel in their sins. " P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Lurker; Bob J

Lurker,
you need to get more facts on WWII. In 1940, the entire population of the world was 2.3 billion. The Axis powers which included Germany, Japan, Italy,Romania, Bulgaria, Finland and Hungary had an appox population of 214,050,000


139 posted on 02/21/2005 10:20:37 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: Lurker
"Take this one: " We cannot win an all out war with 1 billion people." This is an not only an unproven assertion, it's flat out wrong."

Of course you can kill a billion people with a few hundred warheads, that doesn't mean you can win the war. When I say "win the war" I'm talking about about winning the war against the concept of Muslim fundamentalism and the consequential fallout on worldwide public opinion.

I've made a simple statement. Prove I'm wrong.
143 posted on 02/21/2005 10:30:39 PM PST by Bob J (RIGHTALK.com...a conservative alternative to NPR!)
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