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To: i-node who wrote (154483)	11/5/2002 11:48:20 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578938

RE:"Baghdad Jim" Who's that?

To: i-node who wrote (154483)	11/5/2002 11:57:22 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578938

2) If the oil begins flowing from Iraq into the open market, AND if we don't just steal it from them, then who is ultimately the beneficiary? American oil companies are going to refine and sell the amount of oil Americans demand... Bingo. Service companies will sell billions in equipment, oil companies will pump, refine, sell, to the entire world. These interests are worth billions of dollars in revenue and profits for which American sons and daughters will be sent to war. By the way, your attempt to portray me as unpatriotic is a pathetic example of your intellectual limitations and lazyness. While I argue on the side of the unsuspecting common man and his children who are most likely to go fight this war, you follow the party line blindly and commit to a clearly avoidable war path. Al

To: i-node who wrote (154483)	11/6/2002 12:50:52 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578938

It is at least as reasonable for me to refer to you and Baghdad Jim as "gullible" with respect to the chronic stream of lies coming out of Iraq. Who is REALLY "gullible"? This was not an attempt to paint you as unpatriotic, and if inferred it I apologize for not being clearer in my intent. I was really referring to McDermott as an example of liberal guillibility -- almost childlike -- concerning war and national security. The reference had to do with your apparent trust for Saddam Hussein, and I was not suggesting that you have a lack of patriotism like McDermott apparently does. I think you actually believe your positions are what is right for the country. I just don't believe that position is reflective of any reasoning or comprehension of the issues. In particular, I find it to be literally blind to even the most basic techniques used in negotiations.