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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (60091)	9/28/2002 12:26:18 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 82486

I had an interesting conversation today. A loud, opinionated guy was talking to a female colleague (who seemed to be in a bit of a hurry to escape.) The guy is going on and on about how America can do what we want because nobody can compete with us and that if we have a force of a factor of 400, the nearest competitor has maybe a force of 150. Hmm. I wonder where this is going.... He continues about how "namby-pamby liberals don't want us to go after Iraq." Oh, I say to self - I think I see how this is going... So he continues telling me how we will turn them into mincemeat, yadda-yadda-yadda. The other employee has planned and executed her escape, leaving me to deal with Mr. Opinionated. I finally say, "Well , if you are going after criminals who harm people, don't you think that South Africa is more of demonic force than Iraq? I mean the government in the embodiment of Mugabe seems more immoral and heinous than Saddam does." "No, I don't think we should worry about anything below the Sahara." Oh, really. Why is that, I query? "Because they are all going to be dead in 15 years from AIDS, starvation and war." Well, I guess that solves it, huh? I found something else to do. Despite Mr. Opinionated's thesis, I really don't think it boils down to "namby-pamby liberals" though. This proposed war seems only popular with nutters. I know people who have teenage sons. Do they want their kids to go off and fight an oil war? I don't think any Bush family will be seeing ground action in Iraq. Do you?