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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Fred Levine who wrote (70703)10/16/2003 11:54:36 AM
From: runes   of 70976
 
<<You have also mistated my position vis a vis Saddam.>>
...I'm not sure where this is coming from. Are you saying that you didn't support attacking Iraq despite the lack of UN support?

<<What has been proven is that Saddam himself was a weapon of mass destruction.>>
...In a figurative sense - but that wasn't proven by recent events - that had been well established many years ago.

<<...the essence of paranoia is the belief that someone is out to get us.>>
...No - it is the IRRATIONAL belief. Believing that Al Qaida is out to get us is not paranoia, it is a fact - one that was known long before 9-11 (and one that Bush failed to address until after 9-11).
...However the fear that Saddam was out to get us does wander into the realm of the irrational. We already had a stranglehold on his purse-strings and inspectors searching the nooks and crannies and we have the biggest army and we are already on heightened alert. And yet, according to the latest administration rationalization - we had to get him before he got us.
...That sounds like paranoia to me!

For the record - I don't believe that the administration attacked Iraq out of paranoia - it was done for political/idealogical reasons. However they did exploit fear and paranoia of the citizenry.
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