Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OFF TOPIC Gen. Loan
From: "Joseph Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 21:32:56 -0700

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Lest we became too sentimental in the case of the general, the photo =
does show the true fact: He killed a prisoner in cold blood. General =
Loan may have been a nice man, patriotic and distraught at the loss of =
several comrades but, in the words of the reverend Falwell, "two wrongs =
don=92t make a right" (this statement may be the only one for which =
Falwell deserves credit).=20

As I recall we were not as magnanimous in our appraisal of the warlords =
of Somalia when we were confronted by the photo of dead US soldiers =
dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.


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