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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:17 AM Original message |
"Ceasefire" v "cessation of hostilities": how would you define them? |
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bullimiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. ceasefire is what sane people want. the insane madmen change the terms |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. A cease -fire means nothing is resolved - you stop firing |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Well, it helps me think that I still understand English |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Yes, government takes settled upon definitions and warps them |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
3. My guess is that this is diplomatic language that allows them to go |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
4. Britain does not want a ceasefire |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:45 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. What you describe as a 'ceasefire', I would describe as a 'truce' |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 12:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. You are correct |
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samsingh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-01-06 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
7. well neither are happening right now |
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