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Exit strategy

The Americans don't have one, but Saddam has:

"Iraqi leader says former dictator is moving in ever smaller circles"

Simon R. Hughes
  

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[nq:1]The Americans don't have one, but Saddam has: "Iraqi leader says former dictator is moving in ever smaller circles"[/nq] That's an exit strategy? Have you been reading Glory Road again, Simon?

  • [nq:1]The Americans don't have one, but Saddam has: "Iraqi leader says former dictator is moving in ever smaller circles"[/nq] That's an exit strategy?
  • Have you been reading Glory Road again, Simon?
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[nq:1]The Americans don't have one, but Saddam has: "Iraqi leader says former dictator is moving in ever smaller circles"[/nq]
That's an exit strategy? Have you been reading Glory Road again, Simon?
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Thus spake Mike Oliver:
[nq:2]The Americans don't have one, but Saddam has: "Iraqi leader says former dictator is moving in ever smaller circles"[/nq]
[nq:1]That's an exit strategy? Have you been reading Glory Road again, Simon?[/nq]
Heinlein? (I looked it up.) I don't understand your reference, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the twist in the plot that none of the Amazon
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[nq:1]But the article was alluding to that rare fowl, the oozelum bird.

oozelum bird fictitious creature, made famous ... ever- decreasing circles if attacked, until the inevitable happens.

The inevitable being that it disappears up it's own ***.[/nq]
Argh! Its, not it's!
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Thus spake Niall Leonard:
[nq:2]The inevitable being that it disappears up it's own ***.[/nq]
[nq:1]Argh! Its, not it's![/nq]
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Simon R. Hughes
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[nq:1]Thus spake Mike Oliver:[/nq]
[nq:2]That's an exit strategy? Have you been reading Glory Road again, Simon?[/nq]
[nq:1]Heinlein? (I looked it up.) I don't understand your reference, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the ... ever- decreasing circles if attacked, until the inevitable happens. == The inevitable being that it disappears up it's own ***.[/nq]
Igli, in "Glory
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[nq:1]Igli, in "Glory Road", however, didn't do this. He ate himself, beginning with a foot.[/nq]
Did he least say grace first? Unlike that reprehensible Horace...

Much to his mum and dad's dismay,
Horace ate himself one day.
He didn't stop to say his grace.
He just sat down and ate his face.
Or so I seem to recall it.

Dena Jo
Ah, the *** that sticks in th
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[nq:2]Igli, in "Glory Road", however, didn't do this. He ate himself, beginning with a foot.[/nq]
[nq:1]Did he least say grace first?[/nq]
Igli didn't exactly plan or even consent to his meal.
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[nq:2]But the article was alluding to that rare fowl, the ... The inevitable being that it disappears up it's own ***.[/nq]
[nq:1]Argh! Its, not it's![/nq]
And I just found:
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
There's a link to some German site with great examples of

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