>So they turned down free money? that makes a lot of since.....
As hinted in another message in this thread: they turned down the "free" money for the same reason the Trojans should have turned down their free gift.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
