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To: wonders
Kill them all ... nits make lice

Nope, that's a quote from Colonel Chivington (Sand Creek).

I originally said it in response to someone saying that a large destructive attack would only result in more suicide bombers. My response is simple ... if you kill them all (or at least enough of them so that they cringe at the sound of aircraft or diesel engines), there won't be any revenge attacks.

The idea worked against the American Indians.

242 posted on 09/13/2001 11:34:32 AM PDT by BlueLancer
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244 posted on 09/13/2001 11:37:45 AM PDT by BlueLancer
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To: BlueLancer
Italics off?
245 posted on 09/13/2001 11:42:43 AM PDT by wonders
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To: BlueLancer
Ref your #242: Ah yes, Chivington, the "Butcher of Sand Creek." How could I have forgot? What a curious hero you have found for yourself.

For those who don't recall, a little about Chivington:

Chivington made good on his genocidal promise. During the early morning hours of November 29, 1864, he led a regiment of Colorado Volunteers to the Cheyenne's Sand Creek reservation, where a band led by Black Kettle, a well-known "peace" chief, was encamped. Federal army officers had promised Black Kettle safety if he would return to the reservation, and he was in fact flying the American flag and a white flag of truce over his lodge, but Chivington ordered an attack on the unsuspecting village nonetheless. After hours of fighting, the Colorado volunteers had lost only 9 men in the process of murdering between 200 and 400 Cheyenne, most of them women and children. After the slaughter, they scalped and sexually mutilated many of the bodies, later exhibiting their trophies to cheering crowds in Denver.

Chivington was at first widely praised for the "battle" at Sand Creek, and honored with a widely-attended parade through the streets of Denver just two weeks after the massacre. Soon, however, rumors of drunken soldiers butchering unarmed women and children began to circulate, and at first seemed confirmed when Chivington arrested six of his men and charged them with cowardice in battle. But the six, who included Captain Silas Soule, a personal friend of Chivington's who had fought with him at Glorietta Pass, were in fact militia members who had refused to participate in the massacre and now spoke openly of the carnage they had witnessed.

All genocidal criminals sound alike, I suppose. Goebbels, Chivington. Pol Pot's justification for slaughtering children was "kill the grass down to the root."

It appears the terrorists have won when it comes to you, at least. You stoop to their level.

250 posted on 09/13/2001 11:56:06 AM PDT by wonders
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To: BlueLancer
"I originally said it in response to someone saying that a large destructive attack would only result in more suicide bombers. My response is simple ... if you kill them all (or at least enough of them so that they cringe at the sound of aircraft or diesel engines), there won't be any revenge attacks.

The idea worked against the American Indians. "

Yeah how many ovens and gas chambers do you think will be necessary to exterminate 800 million Muslims? And when you're done with them I guess you'll give all their lands to Israel for use as Lebensraum. Frankly, I think it would be impossible to exterminate the Muslims even if you wanted to.

278 posted on 09/13/2001 1:22:36 PM PDT by Marduk
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