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To: Dayuhan who wrote (19417)	8/15/2002 10:59:41 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

First, deploy overwhelming force. From where? The Saudis have already told us to take a hike. That requires real estate. Carrier decks won't do. Second, communicate. Many Iraqis surrendered in the first Gulf war and were well treated, we can make use of that. If forces are backed into the cities we should bombard them with broadcasts, leaflets, and anything else we can contrive, promising that those who surrender will face no repercussions. How many in the Iraqi military really want to die for Saddam? And if that fails? Which it very well may. Remember, those Iraqis who surrendered so eagerly had been given convincing demonstrations of American power. A lot of these guys won't have had that experience. Those who did might wonder if we could do it cities. Remember, WW2 started with the two sides dropping propaganda leaflets on each other. Did nothing to stem the later bloodbath.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (19417)	8/15/2002 11:46:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

Thought you might enjoy this The Philosopher's Song - Monty Python Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table. David Hume could out consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel. There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raisin' of the wrist. Socrates himself was permanently pissed. John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away, 'alf a crate of whiskey every day! Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, and Hobbes was fond of his Dram. And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am." Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.