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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (45508)	9/20/2002 4:33:31 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

<<...We can toast, vaporize, lay waste to Iraq in minutes and the fact our forces are moving in ...closer may well be a show of force that backs Saddam into an indefensible corner...>> Yup...The Military-Industrial Complex is in heaven right now with all these 'threats' after 9/11...We are spending about $400 Billion of your tax dollars on Defense in the next year...According to NewsWeek International's Editor (Fareed Zakaria) The U.S. spends more on defense than the next 20 countries combined...We love to act like a global policeman BUT many around the world view us as a bully and a hypocrit...we have to proceed carefully because a pre-emptive war to engineer a 'regime change' in Iraq has the potential to INCREASE the terrorist activities against our country...it could actually give Al Qaeda some fresh new reasons to continue to recruit members.