Steven James Forsberg wrote:

: Since I got so much wrong earlier, I shall nitpickingly ( wait till the spell checker
: sees that one! ) defend myself. I said "His" mission was bogus, not "The" mission,
: on purpose, because I see the story the same way you do.

I shall see your nitpickingly and raise you an argumentational!
"His" mission was as an observer, which was not a bogus mission, just
one that anybody with eyeballs could pretty much accomplish. (awaiting flames
from highly qualified former observers...)

We have been back and forth several times today with trivial semantic differences. If we
don't get down to slinging offensive names and insults at each other pretty soon, we'll get
disqualified and banned from these news groups!

Bob