Re: Iraq update

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:38:44 GMT, Keith Davies
<keith.davies@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>WDS <Bill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Keith Davies wrote:
>>> Consider: I had a small rat problem at my house. I didn't want to try
>>> to get rid of them in the living room, and I didn't know where their
>>> nest was. Leaving rat traps wasn't terribly effective.
>>
>> So you went to your neighbor's house, the one you have a grudge with,
>> and scattered rat food all over in and around his house and a few days
>> later started shooting up the place? Tsk tsk.
>
>If I don't care about the neighbor's feelings, it's much better *for
>me* to do it that way.
>
>It's still a shitty thing to do, of course. But it does mean I don't
>shoot up my place trying to get rid of the rats.
>
>That is, 'tactically and strategically a better idea'.
>

Well, actually scattering all that rat food around will probably
encourage the rats to reproduce faster than you can shoot them. So it
isn't really tactically and strategically a better idea.

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