uncle phil

halx, rogue49, wily, buDDah, peetster, tophat, mimi, sus, artelevision, hanxter, snowy, tecoyah, amy, charlatan, kramus, ngdawg, paddyjoe, cynthetiq, stormberlin, quadro...shit, a whole bunch of others who i don't mean to forget but...

damn, but we've had some good times...

(edit-can't forget just jess and skogafoss, and jumpin jesus, and ubertuber, and tully, and shalafi, and mixedmedia, and calilivchik, and shanifaye...)

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.