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To: Spanaway Lori

You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water. I just hate to see people on my side sink to their level.


9 posted on 08/26/2005 10:40:03 PM PDT by pcottraux
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To: pcottraux

Then why do trees get burned to prevent forest fires?

I love espionage too. 9/11 made it painfully evident that we need more of it.


17 posted on 08/26/2005 10:49:39 PM PDT by Kryptonite
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To: pcottraux

We're not sinking to their level. Their level is treason. Intelligence gathering is just intelligent when dealing with such people.


61 posted on 08/27/2005 12:46:04 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Hey Senator! Leave those kids alone!)
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To: pcottraux
You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water. I just hate to see people on my side sink to their level.

In order to clean something you have to get on its level.

106 posted on 08/27/2005 5:01:22 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Be a glowworm. A glowworm's never glum. How can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum?)
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To: pcottraux
You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water. I just hate to see people on my side sink to their level.

You know, that's exactly what the Church Committee decided, before "reforming" the CIA.

Mark

117 posted on 08/27/2005 5:44:54 AM PDT by MarkL (It was a shocking cock-up. The mice were furious!)
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To: pcottraux
You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water.

Never fought a forest or brush fire? Never saw video of fighting a firestorm in a city?
124 posted on 08/27/2005 5:55:17 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: pcottraux

You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water.

...........

Guess you've never heard of what professional fire fighters do, "back burn". Get a clue.


132 posted on 08/27/2005 6:09:41 AM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: pcottraux

Wrong on both counts.

First, you don't fight all fires with water--if you do, you'll have a much worse fire than what you started with.

Second, "not stooping to ___ level" is a really poor argument that has been used by losing sides since time began. Evil must be rooted out by whatever means are at hand. Sometimes it means doing things like dropping nuclear bombs on Japan; at others it might mean eavesdropping on the enemy. In both of these examples, if we had not done these things, the good guys would have lost and civilization would be much worse for it.


133 posted on 08/27/2005 6:12:14 AM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: pcottraux

Relax. It's a time honored tradition........gathering intel on your foes via subterfuge and espionage. Best way to know your enemies' secrets.

..and make NO mistake; these slime ARE our enemies.


152 posted on 08/27/2005 6:52:13 AM PDT by RightOnline
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You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water

Not always. You fight an oil or gas fire with CO2 or other suppressant. You fight forest and range fires with fire, called back burning.

155 posted on 08/27/2005 7:09:14 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: pcottraux

Benjamin Franklin opened mail during the revolution as a pre U.S. spy! He was a postmaster.


181 posted on 08/27/2005 12:01:21 PM PDT by AmericanDave (God bless .......and MORE COWBELL)
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To: pcottraux

I see nothing wrong with having someone among them who can get the truth out about what's going on there.

If we were behaving like that, we would deserve to get spied on and exposed too.


190 posted on 08/27/2005 12:11:39 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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I don't think it's wrong. It's actually an important thing that we know their real agenda. They want it secret, right? Why? Because it is war; because it is underhanded; because it is destructive. I regard espionage highly. Wish I could open that file, tho -- it doesn't work on my Windows Media.


206 posted on 08/27/2005 12:25:48 PM PDT by bboop
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To: pcottraux
You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water.
I just hate to see people on my side sink to their level.

Well it isn't exactly like fighting "fire with water", either.
It's more like shining a light on a nest of cockroaches.
I see nothing wrong with it.

224 posted on 08/27/2005 12:54:19 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: pcottraux

True enough, but you need a source for the water (and that's usually under ground. Now the word is out, they'll be eating themselves wondering who it is. Maybe it'll redirect their paranoia inwards...:-)


234 posted on 08/27/2005 2:04:25 PM PDT by Conservative Canuck (The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness)
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To: pcottraux

True enough, but you need a source for the water (and that's usually underground). Now the word is out, they'll be eating themselves wondering who it is. Maybe it'll redirect their paranoia inwards...:-)


235 posted on 08/27/2005 2:04:53 PM PDT by Conservative Canuck (The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness)
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To: pcottraux

Given your age, do you any friends who are in the US Armed Forces?


252 posted on 08/27/2005 7:07:30 PM PDT by Treader (Hillary's dark smile is reminiscent of Stalin's inhuman grin...)
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To: pcottraux
You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water. I just hate to see people on my side sink to their level.

I don't mean to pester you, but if you think one guy faking being a liberal is "sinking to their level," you have not been paying attention. The hard core left is thug central.

260 posted on 08/27/2005 8:36:20 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (I don't want any free Mumia. It's stringy and tough to digest.)
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To: pcottraux
You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water. I just hate to see people on my side sink to their level.

Trust me, it's not possible for us to ever sink to their level.

264 posted on 08/27/2005 8:54:02 PM PDT by GOPJ
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The fact that deception is needed to get the truth from the left is an indicator of the inherit dishonesty of the left . The fact that the fifth columnists that have hijacked Cindy Sheahans exercise in dementia are willing to tell any lie to attack the morale /fighting spirit of the armed forces & the folks at home is without question.


324 posted on 08/28/2005 11:29:10 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: pcottraux

My friend, you act as if this was a game. It isn't, it is a battle for this country.


339 posted on 08/29/2005 7:35:25 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (BOHICA!)
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