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2006-01-28 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2006-01-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Without being racist, an old saying comes to mind.

"Once you pay the Danegelt, the Dane never goes away."

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-01-28 07:56|| 2006-01-28 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 The whole of Kipling's poem

IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:
We invaded you last nightwe are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That youve only to pay em the Dane-geld
And then youll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:
Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But weve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to says:

We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-01-28 08:21|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-28 08:21|| Front Page Top

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