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To: LindyBill who wrote (35520)	7/31/2002 3:28:02 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Nice cost-benefit analysis there, Bill. I suppose it was ok for us to back Saddam versus Iran, despite WMD and all that stuff, because those dirty Iranians "held American hostage" for a year, though they didn't actually kill anybody. Only a few hundred thousand died in that one, where we backed the aggressor, sunk the better part of the Iranian navy, and shot down a civilian jet, that latter with all kinds of timely propaganda about how it was actually all their fault, quietly admitted as false later. Then there's Afghanistan, where we cheered while a few tens of thousands Soviet conscripts and a cool million or so Afghans died, while we nurtured "the moral equivalent of the founding fathers". Somehow, on the body count level, all the sanctimonious moral posturing leaves me a bit cold. There's a few other cold war operations where the body count went into 6 or 7 figures, but they weren't, in general, Americans, so it doesn't much matter.

To: LindyBill who wrote (35520)	7/31/2002 6:07:05 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Let's check the records and the references. Osoma Bed Linen dead or alive failure F Anthrax perpetrator failure F Surplus to deficit failure F GDP predicitions failure F Economic Fundamentals strong failure F Stock Market performance failure F Arrest of Lay/Skilling/Ebbers failure F Unemployment failure F Job Creation failure F World-Wide Opinion failure F Environment failure F Palestinia/Iraeli problem failure F Press Conferences failure F Consumer confidence failure F Month Long Vacations excellent A+ Let me see. Yeah! These are the guys I want to follow into battle! Sign me up!