Carol,

as so often when you try to criticise one of my posts I see no meaningful relation between what I have posted and meant and what you post. You are full of wrong assumptions which prevent your understanding what I have written.

Please don't attempt to speak for us. (Carol)

Huh? I have made not the tiniest attempt to do that. The only time I have used the word 'we/our' was in 'I think we can now discuss...'. Everywhere else I have used 'I' with several qualifications. The central point, my interpretation of the observation 'few posts' was in a sentence with these words: The reason....I see. I fail to see how I could have been any clearer than that for the reader to understand that this is an interpretation, my interpretation.

So it hardly follows that it's the US Americans who only post to threads like this if they can bash Bush. (Carol)

Complete rubbish, I have neither written nor meant that.

I have explicitly agreed with this part of Big Tim's observation: few posts. I have even written that down so everybody could read and digest in which respect I agree with Big Tim. Had I agreed with Big Tim's observation/interpretation of few posts by Americans I would have written few posts by Americans. My point and my interpretation of why I think there were few posts (in general) were directed at Mudcatters in general and not only at American or US American Mudcatters. Read again my sentence:

The majority of catters (and of American catters) loves to blame Bush and his government for all possible evils.

I fail to understand how anybody can understand this sentence other than that I see no difference here (other than Big Tim does) between American and other Mudcatters. All other sentences do not single out or even mention American catters except when I with deliberation said that I never have seen here a shortage of American catters' outrage if the victims have been foreigners<(i>. I completely fail to see how this sentence can be understood as anything else but a disagreement with Big Tim and a defense of American Mudcatters against his interpretation that they only care about American victims.

The other parts of your post too are far off the mark.

You have a vivid fantasy, Carol, use it when you look at clouds or in other pastimes, but use another part of your brain when you read my posts.

Wolfgang