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To: Neocon who wrote (132857)	5/13/2004 4:29:52 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Perhaps you also didn't notice, but David Kay ascertained that the Iraqis were working on increasing the range of their ballistic missiles. True, they would not yet have reached the United States, unless we presumed they were on a naval platform, but they would have reached American troops in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf, and perhaps parts of NATO......... Perhaps YOU aren't aware of this but I once lived next to a nasty kid that was quite capable of chucking a rock at me. True it would have been a long toss, unless he climbed over the fence, but he was getting stronger as he got older and those rocks could have reached me, and if they'd hit me in the eye I could have been hurt..... That kid worried me until I thought about it and realized that the kid had no reason to toss rocks at me. He was smart enough to know that if he did that life would be very unpleasant for him and he was smart enough to know there was nothing in it for him. Once I got over my paranoia, I felt ok with that. The kid eventually grew up and now he does my lawn. I don't want him marrying my daughter but at least he's not buried out in my back yard or stinking up the place. But maybe I should have just killed him. What do you think? What's an acceptable level of risk? Is it self defense if we can say he "might now or might in the future" threaten us? Never mind, I'll ask you when you get over being so scared about 9/11.

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