Subject: Re: Free at Last!!!!
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LED Date: 4/12/2001 9:19:13 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 63.71.127.60 In Reply to: Free at Last!!!! posted by
THUNDER Message:
Couple of points/quotes I've read as I hate Politics
Whadda reckon that's the secret deal the diplomats worked out?
Betcha that plane ain't going anywhere fast.
They can have the damn plane.
Any sensitive info they had gathered was destroyed, the technology onboard is probably at least 10 years old and due for replacement. Not a big loss.
I hope the quid-pro-quo wasn't the 4 Aegis destroyers slated for Taiwan. I heard on the news today that the E-3 flights will begin again after the meeting next week between the ChiComms and US about the aircraft.
All in all it's been a zero sum game. We didn't lose anybody or anything important, and the Chinese proved once again to the world that they are first class pricks who should be treated as such on the world scene.
Everybody on an Olympic team who really, really wants to go to Beijing in 2008 raise your hand.
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