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To: carranza2 who wrote (31013)	5/28/2002 7:59:22 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi carranza2; Re: "Why, then, all the blather and rhetoric from our side?" Partly honest divergence of opinion, partly amateur hour, partly trial balloons, and partly because threatening an enemy with something you have no intention of doing is apparently a very useful tactic. (If it wasn't, then why do so many pro sports figures "trash talk" each other? Humans are human, and anyway, verbal threats are a much less violent way of dealing with stuff than what the military is trained to do.) I don't have any problems with what the Bush administration is doing. I don't think that they're going into Iraq, but I also don't think that the blather and rhetoric is doing anyone any damage. Thinking back to Reagan, all that blather and rhetoric about the evil empire didn't put us into a war with them. -- Carl@aworldwherecountriesonlytrashtalkedeachotherwouldbeokay.com