Jim, you do have a real knack for getting the wrong end of the stick.

The "bovine manure" I was referring to was in response to andrew e.'s posting of a link to a web site that claims that Osama bin Laden died nine years ago of kidney failure. This web site appears to be a veritable convention of conspiracy theories, including the claim that 9/11 was bit the work of al Qaeda, but of the Bush Administration.

But that is actually small potatoes compared to the other bovine manure on this thread.

If someone is hell-bent on trying to trash some other country or group of people and their initial charges don't hold water, they frequently go rummaging around in the country's history in search of dirty laundry.

And every country of any historical significance has a lot of it.

For example, shall we examine the history of a few other countries? Where shall we start, eh?

Don Firth