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To: Brumar89 who wrote (60850)	12/10/2002 7:56:54 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

I don't get the reason for referring to Afghanistan at all. The way I read it is that Zonder thinks we killed "Thousands" of innocent civilians in Afghanistan, and can't wait to do the same in Iraq. How many were killed there? No way to tell. The left inflates the number, the right does the opposite. Bush would have had a lot easier time if he had decided to just chase the Al Qaeda Terrorists around the world, and ignore Iraq's defiance of the UN Resolutions. Yet he is hounded for pressuring Iraq into compliance with the UN resolutions. He catches hell now wither we do or don't invade.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (60850)	12/10/2002 9:26:21 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I said: ""Wasting time and taxpayer money"? What horror! Better to invade another sovereign country preemptively and for no real reason, kill thousands of civilians a la Afghan, and install a puppet government sympathetic to US oil companies." Message 18315685 Simplified explanation: In Afghanistan, thousands of civilians were killed and a former consultant of a US oil company (Hamid Karzai) was placed in power. An invasion of Iraq will kill many civilians as well and a guy sympathetic to US oil companies will be placed in power as well. Hence the reason why I said it would be a la Afghan.