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To: stockman_scott who wrote (54694)	8/28/2002 11:11:12 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 65232

But what about the families of those who will do the actual fighting? What about the country that will have to suffer the casualties and bitterness that are the wreckage of every war? Chris Matthews is off target. The military fighters don't sign up for wars they like vs. wars they don't. It's not an a la carte menu. And, in a war of liberation such as Iraq would be, as with Afghanistan and Kuwait, the people are liberated from a brutal regime, for the better. I sometimes like Chris Matthews, but he's playing an old emotion-evoking, heartstring-tugging game instead of looking at the cold, hard facts. Saddam lobbed scuds at Israel while we were freeing Kuwait, in an offensive maneuver to try to draw Israel into a conflict that it wasn't even involved in. Next time, one nuke-tipped scud might wipe out all of Israel. And with respect to us, if he gives nukes, gas, or bio weapons to Al Queda, which he will, they'll do the dirty work of smuggling them in containers or otherwise into U.S. ports, and detonate them - - killing hundreds of thousands or more Americans. Saddam would shrug and say, "I didn't do it." It shocks me that some people don't "get it," and have refused to learn the lessons of history.