I just adore cheese (as I said I’ m 25 % French). Rocquefort, lovely. (Just make sure you don’t have a date :D). Camembert, Brie. :9

I only refused one sort of cheese, the one which got worms in it? You know it Hand????

A nice bit of Brie with cranberry sauce, if you are in the habit of deep-frying your cheese
–> ???? Is this the new kind of cooperation between England and France? Frying cheese? 😀

LOL Margaret Tatcher 😀 😀

My friend called me saying that the university was on fire. I believed him, so I took my bike and went there. Gee, I was stupid.

Stalin

You can`t be serious here Garry. Stalin predictable, you knew the rules? The guy has killed thousands of his own friends, some even very close to him. He even executed a commandor of the armed forces (can`t think of his name) after World War II because he was getting too popular among the people.

Belgium has got the best health care system in Western Europe. This however, brings its own problems. We have thousands of Dutch and English patients visiting our doctors and hospitals. Unfortunatelly, it is the Belgian taxpayer who pays for their health care. It’s about time the EU starts thinking about this. My mother is a doctor, and 30 % of her patients are Dutch.

I am not altogether convinced that the USA is acting with 100% altruistic goals in mind, but I am 100% damn sure that the removal of Saddam and his cronies will be a GOOD thing for Iraq and the world.

Everyone keeps telling me that it can only get better for Iraq. Even then, I have my doubts. Toppling a regime is not the same as installing a new one. Will it be like in Afghanistan? Where a muppet government has controll over the capital city, but outside of it, all power lays in the hands of local leaders, mostly thugs? I even heard rumours that the US wants to let the Baath party rule the country, only with another presdident. I think Garry has made a good point comparing this to Germany after WWI. History may show us the US was right, IF and only IF Iraq, within the next ten years becomes a democracy similar to the one in the west, and can stay like this for at least 50 years. And ofcourse, if the Palestinian conflict can be solved.
Western democracy isn’t something you can impose on a nation. America still thinks their kind of democracy is the only decent way to rule a country. If a country wants to become democratic, the people have to chose for it themselves, not some foreign power who doesn’t have the right to be there (spoken in terms of law).
What will happen if a democracy is set up, but the people vote – and this scenario is very realistic I suppose – for an fundamentalist islamist party. A regime which is based on Anti-Americanism. A regime very similar to the one in Iran perhaps? What will America do then? Will it respect the choise the Iraqi’s made, or will it just overthrow the democratic regimes it doesn’t like much like they did in Latin America during the Cold war?
Do not forget, the Sji-iets, from whom the US thought they would cooperate, still haven’t forgotten that US betrayed them after Desert Storm.
Once this war will be won, the US has a huge responsibility. It is now it’s duty to bring it to a good end, and that is peace in the ME. If not, then this while operation will be a big failiure, even if they have captured Saddam Hussein.

OK, say when, maybe during the holidays. But I warn you, I’m very predictable :D. I’m not really the Blitzkrieg-type, I like to set up a base first before I attack.

And the Scud-cheat. I doesn’t work as I had no money and still they launched.