Thomas Borchert wrote:
Gig,

So now you are not only a knee-jerk European America hater

Jeeze, guys, I thought you came from the land of the free and all.
Can't we have an interesting discussion about this without throwing
personal insults? Kind of degrades your arguments if you start doing
that as soon as someone ventures a different opinion.

You don't remotely know me enough to be able to make that statement
above. And it's a typical knee-jerk ugly American redneck reaction of
you, too ;-)



I don't know you at all except for what you have wrtitten here. Your posts
when they are aviation related are ususally right on. But give you the
slight opening for a chance to make a negative comment about the US and you
jump on it every time. That is my definition of knee-jerk.



...the Interior Ministry said on
Monday.

Gee, I guess that's a truly objective and trustworthy source who
would have nothing to gain from coming to that conclusion, right?

Reuters is anti-american enough for you? How about this.

http://icasualties.org/oif_a/CasualtyTrends.htm