brener@milrat.DEC (11/06/84)
wayne, wayne, wayne. if you knew anything about grenada you will know that they initially came to the u.s. for aid, but the administration wouldn't even respond to their repeated requests. when they realized that they were in danger from the u.s. they responded by allying themselves with the soviet union (after all the invasion had been planned a few years back), obviously they didn't get that much help as they needed. as a matter of fact those massive arms stock piles that reagan referred to were 5,000 rifles, 5,000,000 bullets,and mostly obsolete and antique weapons that have been sent to collections around the u.s.. oh yes, let's not forget about the rice they found in those "weapons warehouses" too, great stuff for an invasion. i could just hear them screaming "ready, aim, cook!". i'll take mine pilaf. in reference to whether the other 35,000 lbs of documents contained anything more relevant than dog liscences, i think that that is an excellent question. "salvoes to the left of me, salvoes to the right of me" steve b
scw@cepu.UUCP (11/12/84)
Steve, can't you even orgiginate your own lies? (Haven't we seen this same article about 2 weeks ago? Didn't Will Martin say what I'm saying about collectable firearms? Is this the Twilight Zone?) >wayne, wayne, wayne. if you knew anything about grenada >you will know that they initially came to the u.s. for aid, but the >administration wouldn't even [...] arms stock piles that reagan referred to >were 5,000 rifles, 5,000,000 bullets,and mostly obsolete and antique weapons >that have been sent to collections around the u.s.. 5000 rifles for a country with 200 policemen and a 1500 man Army? I guess that they expected a very high failure rate and wanted to be sure that they had plenty of spares. And where, pray tell, did all these get sent to? I'm a collector of antique arms and I've heard not word 1 about 5k or so antique firearms croping up (the way he discribes them you'd think that they were matchlocks or something). Also just because a rifle wasn't manifactured last week, or isn't an assult rifle doesn't mean that it's obsolete. A bolt rifle may not have the sheer raw firepower of an AK-74 but it'll kill ya just as dead, and from a lot longer range too. > oh yes, let's not >forget about the rice they found in those "weapons warehouses" too, >great stuff for an invasion. i could just hear them screaming "ready, aim, >cook!". i'll take mine pilaf. > >in reference to whether the other 35,000 lbs of documents contained anything >more relevant than dog liscences, i think that that is an excellent question. > I'd be interested in finding what's in those 35K lbs to, probably nothing of great interest (to anyone at all). 35,000 Lbs of dog licenses sounds strange (I'd bet that there aren't 35,000 Lbs of Dog there). >"salvoes to the left of me, salvoes to the right of me" > >steve b Don't forget fore and aft as well. -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 3' 9.1" W 118 27' 4.3"