OT: Cathy - remedial reading help needed for Shmuckland

"Implied" does not fit "assertion". Sorry, Cathy and golf boy. I made no assertion.

Furthermore, an assertion does not end with a question mark, because an assertion is not a question.

There was no assertion. But, because are required to disagree.

You beg Cathy for clarification and then dismiss her when she doesn't agree with you. I see you really don't have any respect for her teaching credentials after all. I told you to stop digging long ago yet your shovel has gone into hyperspeed. You have just burned another bridge.

"He spent the afternoon refinishing some old chairs."

If one of your students argued for 3 days straight that "chairs" was a verb in that sentence, you wouldn't give up either, would you?

Go get your dictionary, look up "assert", and type the definition in your next response.

If I'd made an assertion, it would've read "Iran does not actually have missiles."

Tell us what YOUR dictionary says, assuming you actually own one.

Getting right on it Professor K.

I doubt that very much.

Sigh... I didn't say you did. I said there was no out & out assertion, but there was an inference.

Cathy

What benefit did we realize in WWII with Gen. Patton's First US Army Group?

What benefit did the USSR realize in the 1950s when it kept circling ten Bear strategic bombers in front of the TV camera during a May Day parade?

Even an inference wouldn't have made sense. The only information I have about this recent missile thing came from the same news sources we've all seen since the launch, plus I've committed the ultimate sin: I remember things I read in the past about similar situations.

I don't have enough information to assert anything on the subject.

I stroke it to the east And I stroke it to the west I be strokin'

-Clarence Carter

No, the Joe Wilson whose then-undercover (without the usual diplomatic passport) spy wife was outed by Karl Rove & co. and caused our only human intelligence channel for Iranian WMDs to be shut down.

If you can't get even the very basic facts, like these, right, there's no way you can reach valid conclusions. Joe Wilson was not a publicity hound. He simply heard GW Bush tell a falsehood during the State of the Union address that was way too important to be left unchallenged.

That was only before the Gulf War. The settlement terms of that war required Saddam to get rid of his WMDs, and he obviously did, as the $600M spent by the Iraq Survey Group showed when it turned up nothing. Also there's no evidence that Saddam had moved his WMDs into Syria before the 2003 war began, but if he had, why haven't any of the insurgents or terrorists smuggled them back into Iraq (lots of fighters have crossed the Syria-Iraq border) and used them against the US or others?

You need to get your time line right. Those attacks happened In 1988, before the Gulf War, which led to the destruction of such weapons.

There is no allowance for editorializing with the definition of "assert" or "assertion". You wish there was, but there isn't.

Yeah. Troops which should not be used to fight for a country that's no more an ally than Italy or New Zealand.

Bullshit.

Cite. I can't find anything about Saddam gassing or germing Kurds post-1991, probably because the British and US were always patrolling the no-fly zones that included all of the Kurdish area.

I know exactly what I mean. You implied Iran doesn't have missles. OK, Bright Boy, tell me what satellites tracked from Iran then. The BBC says Iran does have those missles. Tell us, *PLEASE* what inside information you have that the rest of the world doesn't.

And don't come back with a bunch of your usual mealy-mouthed rhetoric, or I'll plonk you on this machine, too.