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To: i-node who wrote (156779)	12/26/2002 4:43:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580023

The latest polls show a majority of the people in the state of WA are against going to war with Iraq. There he goes, again. It is part of the concept of liberal government that polls rule. This is what we saw during Clinton's two terms -- the inability to function without first taking a poll, and the resultant mistakes that such government brings us. The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, created the Senate in an effort to mitigate the emotional trends of a public whom can be swayed by media and overheated rhetoric. Your negative reaction to polls implies your lack of concern with democratic principles. Elected representatives are supposed to make best efforts to represent the desires and wishes of their constituents. Even Mr. Bush understands that principle as evidenced by his renewed commitment to work with the UN when polls showed that that's what the American people wanted. So, given the amount of whining you've done on the issue of polls, I have to ask........do you have a problem with democracy and its principles? ted

To: i-node who wrote (156779)	12/27/2002 12:13:18 AM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580023

There we go again, equating courage with running around the world shaking out big guns in the face of every piece of rubble. When Bush was running his campaign he bashed Clinton (not that it wasn't easy) for "Nation Building" and spreading U.S. military too thinly around the world. So what happens? We get a hand full of terrorists who easily manage to take over our fueled and ready for take off 350,000 lb. fuel-air bombs (called commercial aircraft in public circles) and now we get Bush rampaging around the world to create America in his own image. This is politics of the paranoid military right wing and military industrial complex. We go from one extreme to the other. The fact was that N. Korea had a few nukes before Bush got into office. Now it looks like they will end up with at least 12 more in the near term and over 90 during the next five years. How is that for progress? Raising the level of rhetoric only works when you can take action that is targeted and effective. Bush's administration is out to screw things up by going off half cocked after Iraq while ignoring domestic security and the domestic economy. . . oh yea, he's going to give away billions in tax benefits to the few. That won't change the simple fact that America is over reacting militarily. Terrorism is primarily not a military problem. It's an intelligence and security problem. It will be with the U.S. for decades and will take thousands of "victories" . . mostly of small actions at borders, in the shadows of intelligence gathering, and on diplomatic fronts. It will also take sticking behind the countries we have already messed around with, like Afghanistan. That country is already near collapse again. "Let's tiptoe through the tulips with George Bush's war machine."