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NRA (IRAQ CHAPTER) SCORES FIRST LOBBYING VICTORY

Iraqis allowed to keep their automatic weapons.

ANYONE WANT TO BUY THE HMS VENGEANCE?

Email correspondent James M. points out that the 19,000-ton Colossus-class CVL HMS Vengeance is back on the auction block, for $4.5 million US or best offer... the Vengeance is a sister ship to Canada's historic aircraft carriers, HMCS Warrior and HMCS Bonaventure. One of the last of the late WW2 British-model light carriers floating, she was recently sold for scrap by the Brazilians, who had named her the Minas Gerais (Brazil had bought the French light carrier Foch to replace it.)

So if the Canadian Alliance wants to have an aircraft carrier almost exactly like the one the Canadians retired in 1970 in fact, apparently there's now one for sale. Just phone up "French Creek Boat Sales." (Ask for Merle.)