Dear Howard and All, Prime Minister Tony Blair did the same thing in an interview that I heard yesterday. He kept speaking about troops being 'sixty miles from Baghdad'. I have no doubt that his military advisors informed him that they were 100 kilometres from Baghdad and that his media advisors dumbed this down to 60 miles.
By the way, it's no wonder that the BBC uses so many colonial measures when the Prime Minister of the UK is yet to convert to metric. Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia on 2003-03-28 00.07, Howard Ressel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting listening to President Bush speaking to the military in > Florida. I wonder if anyone in the audience understood him. He spoke of > "miles" to Bagdad when everyone, I'm sure, in that audience will and > have used "Kilometers" to Bagdad. I thought one rule of public speaking > was to "know your audience and speak their language". > > Howard Ressel, Metric Manager > NYSDOT Region 4 > > > Howard Ressel > Project Design Engineer, Region 4 > (585) 272-3372 >
