26th September 2003, 10:13 AM
Unprepaired? They lost utterly and nothing went wrong. What, you think the occasional skirmish that the media blew way out of preportion (because after all, that's the only thing they had going for them was little things) was an actual problem?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)