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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (43202)	9/11/2002 8:39:15 AM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Maurice, looks like you needed a Frenchmen to bite into, and since no one else (a better one!) was/is around, I am glad I can contribute. Some. But : A submarine would have killed everybody on board the Warrior, while the French plan was that no one should be hurt. And if you don't believe it, show me a list of people the French secret services or equivalent killed during Mitterand fourteen years, without the TV being there + Arab terrorists : Kelkal or the Algerian Airbus hijackers. I reckon that you have your own reasons to condemn Mitterrand and co as evil, but you fail to give those reasons and instead, you zoom on my English, so that I accept your wording, "murder", which I do not. France presidents and Greenpeace were on a collision course about a policy issue. An important one. France lost, Greenpeace won, so did NZ. Fine with me. I never endorsed the French nuclear policy, nor Greenpeace that often acts like a sect; but it is widely accepted that the US would not have risked its existence for Western Europe had the Commies gone mad anytime, especially when Carter was in charge. So there was some logic, while there isn't any in your comparison of 911 with the Rainbow. And you must accept that when someone, anyone, goes against a state policy, especially concerning its most important defense policy, he must be ready to take some blows... Unless he is a surrounded by some great quiet ocean with a superb shiny cross protecting his nights. Had d'Entrecasteaux been a better sailor than Cook, would your position have been the same ?