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To: KLP who wrote (937)	1/30/2002 4:51:14 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3602

KLP, Yeah, right, like the North Koreans are going to lob a missile at Seattle. That would be really bright, don't you think. What would we do? We'd annihilate 'em, brudda. No one on the face of the planet is dumb enough to lob a missile into the U.S. That's simply suicide. So get real about this. But what is this all about? Well, just when the Bush Administration came in, we had "the big chill" in U.S./North Korean relations. It seems that the North and South Koreans were getting too cozy for our comfort. Those pesky Koreans were having family reunions across the border. Businessmen were starting to plan joint ventures, the governments were talking. Peace was breaking out all over. And who couldn't tolerate it? The U.S. Government. We were about to lose a key justification for monsterously large military budgets. Hell, those damn North Koreans were just refusing to be belligent. So we upped the ante. We told the South Koreans to knock it off. Stop the family visits, stop the businessmen, quit diplomatting. It was bad for business for Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, the Carlyle Group and all the others who so richly deserve the treasury of the U.S. for their own grasping profit. No, KLP, I ain't buyin' into the lie about how terrible North Korea is. That's a fantasy of the military-industrial complex and its lackey water carrier, George W. Bush. He ought to be ashamed of himself for being so deceitful to the ill-informed American electorate who tend to want to believe that he's telling them the truth. Nothing could be further from it. -Ray