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To: KLP who wrote (49389)	10/4/2002 10:21:56 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

has articles from newspapers since the beginning of the country, I came up with a unique Birthday present a while back. I get a reprint of the Front Page of their hometown Newspaper, on the persons date of birth. You can usually call the library and pay to have them print it out and mail it to you from their microfiche. I have never bought a present for someone that was appreciated as much.

To: KLP who wrote (49389)	10/6/2002 10:43:36 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

your original statement was that the USA has not conquered other lands or peoples. One needs to look for patterns: For example the Marshall plan is an example of the kind of action which was altruistic and noble. It is the only time that such a re-building program has been completed. Admitted that if the USSR hadn't posed a threat one can argue(and I don't) that the Marshall plan would never have happened. On the other hand the past 60 years is full of examples where help was not forth coming even though promised. Viet-Nam and Afganistan are two examples. So one must ask why does this pattern of self interest exist? My take is that the pattern exits because the USA does not act in any way other than to promote it's own self interests. That the foreign policies of the USA are quite often shortsighted(support to Irak against Iran is one of many examples) is tragic. Think about it, all of those supposedly intelligent analysts in State, the CIA, and various think tanks accepted the dictum(about Saddam) that he is a bastard but he is our bastard no more than 12 years ago. And now they all want to eliminate him first and perhaps remove the WMDs. Perhaps because there is no guarantee that Saddam won't send his WMDs(if he has them) to Iran or some other place. He did that with his air force. Better would be to use the concepts in the Declaration of Independence as a corner stone of US foreign policy. But that would be tantamount to supporting sedition.