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To: kumar who wrote (47594)	9/28/2002 4:02:30 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 281500

If one constantly and repeatedly asks for proof of something, anything, everything, only to say "BFD" if proof is produced, one gives the impression that that proof is not what one really wants...rather, the impression is created that what one really wants is simply to say "BFD" while pretending to occupy some elevated ground where proof matters...unless or until it is produced. Similarly, if one cannot distinguish between a genuine interest in evidence and a crass pretense of interest in evidence, one is apt to waste one's time on someone who is insincere in asking for it in the first place.

To: kumar who wrote (47594)	9/29/2002 3:40:21 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

if one can't distinguish between mass atrocities, and individual atrocities (the way we describe it in the western world), one is not living in the real world Exactly when do the individual atrocities add up to mass atrocities? For years now, Hussein has been torturing and murdering people as a matter of policy and personal entertainment. The numbers now are in the tens of thousands, if not the hundreds of thousands. Each individual is tortured and killed whether it's a "mass" or "individual" atrocity. In every case they're in the "real world."