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PAGE SIX - New York Post ^
| 3/02/03
| RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON
Posted on 03/02/2003 12:06:50 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:12:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SECRETARY of State Colin Powell put a snarky Iraqi reporter in his place the other day. The scribe tried to sandbag the statesman by asking, "Isn't it true that only 13 percent of young Americans can locate Iraq on a map?" "That may be true," Powell snapped. "You're probably right. But unfortunately for you, all 13 percent are Marines."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marines; patriotlist; powellwatch; semperfi; usmc
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posted on
03/02/2003 12:06:50 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: Pan_Yans Wife
HA!
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posted on
03/02/2003 12:10:35 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Lurking since 2000.)
To: kattracks
You gotta love that one!
To: kattracks
How delightfully put. Wonder if there was a follow up?!
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posted on
03/02/2003 12:14:06 AM PST
by
MEG33
To: kattracks
LOL... I wish there was a picture so I could see the destroyed look on that man's face after he gets b-slapped with his own insult.
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posted on
03/02/2003 12:14:34 AM PST
by
cyborg
Comment #6 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
I've seen or read this joke or one like it (but different place) before - I wonder if Powell was just repeating it, but you gotta hand it to him for the quick response.
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posted on
03/02/2003 12:24:06 AM PST
by
Steven W.
To: kattracks
sounds like Rummy's rubbing of on CP!
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posted on
03/02/2003 12:31:44 AM PST
by
ffusco
( Levate dalocu, ludere nescis. Idiota recede!)
To: kattracks
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posted on
03/02/2003 12:31:57 AM PST
by
xm177e2
(smile) :-)
To: kattracks
"He shoots, he scooooooooorrrrreeeesssss" !!
To: kattracks
Priceless.
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posted on
03/02/2003 4:21:26 AM PST
by
Paul_B
To: kattracks
To: kattracks
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the
Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of
empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many
of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond
our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is
enough to bury those that did not return."
It became very quiet in the room.
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posted on
03/29/2003 3:35:44 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: kattracks
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the
Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of
empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many
of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond
our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is
enough to bury those that did not return."
It became very quiet in the room.
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posted on
03/29/2003 3:35:45 PM PST
by
GOPJ
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