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To: Rascal who wrote (54277)	10/23/2002 6:36:05 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Nominated for best post of recent memory. Flawless return. Beautiful flow. Precise timing. Deserved yet humorous reciprocity. Now, I realize you are communicating from a different planet. Fine, I'm game. Trouble is, seems your signal is weak. I think your batteries are running down. They are affecting your ability to reason, hence the piteous wail from outer space of "Does not compute" reaching me down here on pedestrian Earth. Not only that, your communication equipment seems further affected by some kind of virus - your English seems to have deteriorated badly... I hear the message "No can communicate"... my computers are crunching, seems it is some kind of pidgin English, a possible backward evolution... hold on, CB, hold on, help is on the way, I think you may have come down with an acute case of objectivitis moralitivitis, also known as the pompousous blowhardatus syndrom. I hear it can be hard to recover. I send you my sympathy plus two aspirin.

To: Rascal who wrote (54277)	10/23/2002 6:38:07 PM
From: Sir Francis Drake	Respond to of 281500

Wow Rascal - good post. I absolutely agree with the guy. But such is life right now. Of course, one day the shoe will be on the other foot. It is just a matter of time.

To: Rascal who wrote (54277)	10/23/2002 6:50:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Much more plausible is the suggestion that this plan is being promoted in the interests of Israel. Only if you assume that no US interests are involved in fighting Iraq. Considering that Saddam Hussein has already developed terrorists to attack US interests, tried to assassinate American leaders, and is about to get nukes (which presumably will aid both the aims of revenge and his life-long ambitions of regional hegemony), that's a rather remarkable assumption, wouldn't you say? Does the author offer evidence for this remarkable suggestion, such as explaining why it's really in our interest to make alliance with Saddam, for example? Or perhaps he thinks it self-evident that the US has no national interests at stake in the Mideast? No, he only notices that the supporters of the Iraq war also support Israel. QED, I suppose. Do you call this an argument?