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To: jlallen who wrote (18988)	2/16/2002 2:22:36 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Iran, Iraq, N. Korea, Libya, Somalia, need to be brought back into the community of nations whether by persuasion or by force so that the rest of us can live in peace.<< Frankly, if I was going to pick one country that is the biggest threat to US, it would be China. They're totalitarian, they enslave people, they've got more weapons of mass destruction than the five countries you listed all put together, they sell weapons to our enemies. Heck, they've already provoked us by knocking down one of our planes. Why don't we start there first?

To: jlallen who wrote (18988)	2/16/2002 3:03:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

With respect to Neville Chamberlain, et al, my opinion about what they did wrong wasn't trying to appease Hitler, it was letting Hitler have a teeny-tiny piece of Czechoslovakia, which was not theirs to give. Thinking it would appease him was stupid. All you had to do was read "Mein Kampf." As for advocating invading other countries that have not done us - or any other country - any harm, I think you've gone mad. Invading other countries to remake them in his own image was what Hitler did. He was a bad man. Uncle Joe did it too, and he was a bad man. Mao, likewise, and he was a bad man. We don't know what the Germans, Britains and Gauls thought about Caesar, but I doubt they liked him much. And most of the former colonies are still p'o'ed at the British. Bad idea.