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To: Road Walker who wrote (182425)	2/11/2004 1:46:45 PM
From: Buckwheat	of 1577117

[RE: We do have a "lessor person" in office, and you can see what has happened.] I'm satisfied with the consequences. You and I can only speculate on the consequences of any alternative "person" and his/her choices. My speculation is we and the world would be worse off, and that's fine that you perceive a more favorable climate. [Widespread gun ownership certainly adds to the death toll] I still disagree, but that's OK too. I suspect the excessive time lapse between action and consequence (judicial process) is a bigger contributor. The public and the criminal lose sight of the real issue. [You are comparing our overseas military with automatic weapons and "shock and awe" bombs to domestic crime figures?] The 75 deaths in the past two days are related to terrorists/criminal actions in IRAQ, not shock and awe. I find it interesting that people can categorize this so easily as US shock and awe as opposed to criminal violence. If you think shock and awe is the mode of operation, why are US troops still being killed every day? There are any number of weapons alternatives in the inventory and rules of engagement that would eliminate most or all of the US losses. The US military deaths in IRAQ are a consequence of compassion directed towards good people in IRAQ (the majority of the country I suspect). No I don't think that it's OK to kill civilians in IRAQ, but from the news I read everyday, I get the perception that non-US personnel are responsible for the vast majority of the killing. If you don't want to get annexed into the city limits does that make it OK for you to murder everyone that voted for it or that took no active position on the issue at all? Should stability in IRAQ come at the price of warehouses and mass graves full of unexplained dead bodies? Maybe we wasted a lot of time and money in this country since the 1920s. Perhaps we should have disbanded the unnecessary government and just turned everything over to organized crime. [1) Domestic death by foreign terrorist; 2) Domestic death by crime; 3) Foreign civilian death by US military. Is that accurate?] I also subscribe to the theory that people who care little about themselves or their immediate neighbors have very little genuine interest in their far away nameless, faceless, neighbors. Perhaps some folks are just looking for a headline, trying to sell a book, or to effect change just for the sake or change. Buck

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