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To: Alighieri who wrote (156866)	12/27/2002 11:44:45 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1580691

Alighieri Re...How many American lives are you willing to sacrifice so you can drive your SUV? Actually I do have a SUV' a 1998 Ford Explorer. One of those rollover specials. I always assumed the life I risked when I drove it was my own. If you are looking for a humanitarian cause, there are many in Africa that make Iraq pale by comparison. I don't see GW bleed over these. And you call me a hypocrite? Iraq is a humanitarian issue (children dying), plus a national interest issue (oil), plus a national security issue security issue (terrorsim and WMD). Oops, my 3 issues to your one. Iraq first. Possibly the rest later. But the president has said that we are just aming to disarm him...We can disable this man peacefully. There is no question about it. I believe Cheney and Gw has said regime change. Here's what you said in your post: Good one. Now you think we should interfere, and install democracies. Would you make up your mind. To which I replied (more or less), " what do you think we have been doing in these countries for 50 years?" which you mis-understood or used to imply I am a communist again... In the post you are replying to, we talk about installing democracies. We did not install a democracy in half of the countries you mentioned, however we did interfere so to speak in all of them, while fighting ostensibly communism. I did not say, nor had any intention of implying you were communist. Don't patronize. If there had not been an attack on the US we would not be there now to correct that "mistake". But there was 9/11. Beside, we wouldn't have interfered in Afghanistan in the 80s if Moscow hadn't interfered first. My point, most of the interference you talk about was to stop the spread of communism. If Moscow had kept its sphere of influence in Russia, the US would have left most of these other countries alone. Actually you can more or less safely go to any of these places. I am just telling you that they dislike us for our policies and attitudes. Does not mean that they will harm us for it. So what, right? And anyone reading this board, or a bunch of others would conclude most of the dems and reps. hate each other.

To: Alighieri who wrote (156866)	12/28/2002 10:11:27 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580691

But the president has said that we are just aming to disarm him...We can disable this man peacefully. There is no question about it. Why don't you tell us how you would do it, without using one of the previously failed methods: a) Weapons inspectors without absolute and total cooperation of Iraqi officials (what we're doing now). b) Sanctions. They don't work. So what else you got?