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To: JohnM who wrote (41701)	9/3/2002 12:02:30 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

John, I guess there is an impasse between the 'sides' on this issue and maybe it should be taken off the discussion table. For example a number of the 'right wingers' appear to support Republican positions and support the war based on the flimsy evidence shown to date. The other side - our 'left wingers', appear as Democrats (since they oppose everything the administration does on religious grounds :-). My opinion is that no amount of evidence presented by the President would convince our left wingers. For example - if Bush went on TV with the same level of evidence Kennedy presented during the Cuban missle crisis - I would bet many of our lefties would still oppose pre-emtion. Unfortunately, just because the left is wrong on this issue - that does not make the right wing correct :-) As a democracy, the general concept of a pre-emptive strike is abhorent. Its like that summer movie where people are being arrested for 'future' murders. However, looking at Sept 11th - if our intelligence community had provided a clear and consise picture and presented the President with a who's who. Would we as a country have supported a pre-emptive strike on Afganistan? And rounding up all the flight school attendee's? I think not. Unfortunately, when the intelligence community has what it sees as a clear and present danger, many of us would see only vague threats. Despite the Presidents best efforts, we probably won't attack Iraq for this reason. I just hope we don't live to regret it. John