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To: Alighieri who wrote (157192)	1/1/2003 11:02:41 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580220

when it's hard to refute common sense there's always the call it "garbage" approach. You didn't provide a citation. I didn't know whether it was YOUR INTERPRETATION or you found it on some pro-Iraqi website. The piece IS garbage -- bears no relation to the facts whatsoever. While it is full of nonsense, this line is one of my favorites: "Meanwhile, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is a shambles, with President Bush publicly derisive about existing arms control pacts. Bush insists that we will be just fine relying on a cockamamie missile defense fantasy that is arguably the biggest defense contractor boondoggle in the nation's long history of such deals." It is BUSH who is DOING SOMETHING about nuclear proliferation. It was YOUR GUY who chose to APPEASE NK while they built up their nuclear capability. It was YOUR GUY who allowed Saddam to violate his agreement to disarm without the SLIGHTEST repercussion. Just like it was YOUR GUY who allowed BIN LADEN to walk away when he could have had him. Incompetent. Missle defense was maybe the most important initiative to come out of the Reagan administration. When the idea was first tossed around it was obvious that it was the best conceivable solution to our defense. But the liberals didn't want it. It will never work. Well, IT WILL WORK. Nobody is saying today "it will never work" (except the nitwit who wrote your article). It obviously is a great idea which is feasible with today's technology, and Bush has the gumption to see it. Just one more example of the liberals being dreadfully wrong. If we had listened to the Carl Sagans of the world we would not now have this excellent tool to protect us over the coming century. For that matter, to protect Israel and Japan as well. But one more example of liberals jumping to conclusions, half-informed, and one more reason we need to not have liberals in positions of authority.