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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: louisebaltimore who wrote (1158)	1/13/2003 10:35:49 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

louise, Re: The WTC was attacked by Arabs. Iraqis are Arabs. Using your logic, we should attack those who helped create Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, right? Here's who we should attack if we are concerned about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: 1 Honeywell (R, K) 2 Spectra Physics (K) 3 Semetex (R) 4 TI Coating (A, K) 5 Unisys (A, K) 6 Sperry Corp. (R, K) 7 Tektronix (R, A) 8 Rockwell (K) 9 Leybold Vacuum Systems (A) 10 Finnigan-MAT-US (A) 11 Hewlett-Packard (A, R, K) 12 Dupont (A) 13 Eastman Kodak (R) 14 American Type Culture Collection (B) 15 Alcolac International (C) 16 Consarc (A) 17 Carl Zeiss - U.S (K) 18 Cerberus (LTD) (A) 19 Electronic Associates (R) 20 International Computer Systems (A, R, K) 21 Bechtel (K) 22 EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. (R) 23 Canberra Industries Inc. (A) 24 Axel Electronics Inc. (A) You will notice these are all U.S. corporations. All are gross violators of international treaties. The key follows: A: Atomic, B: Biological, C: Chemical, R: Rocketry, K: Conventional Weaponry, Logistics, Dual Use Equipment Also, the Department of Energy, Sandia National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab and the Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture and the American Culture Collection which shipped botulinum and anthrax to Iraq. Shall we start the bombing on the West Coast or on the East Coast? Your call. -Ray Source: taz.de

To: louisebaltimore who wrote (1158)	1/13/2003 4:27:44 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

The WTC was attacked by Arabs. Iraqis are Arabs. Let me familiarize you with a logical fallacy called "Undistributed Middle": Definition: The middle term in the premises of a standard form categorical syllogism never refers to all of the members of the category it describes. Examples: (i) All Russians were revolutionists, and all anarchists were revolutionist, therefore, all anarchists were Russians. The middle term is 'revolutionist'. While both Russians and anarchists share the common property of being revolutionist, they may be separate groups of revolutionists, and so we cannot conclude that anarchists are otherwise the same as Russians in any way. Example from Copi and Cohen, 208. (ii) All trespassers are shot, and someone was shot, therefore, someone was a trespasser. The middle term is 'shot'. While 'someone' and 'trespassers' may share the property of being shot, it doesn't follow that the someone in question was a trespasser; he may have been the victim of a mugging. datanation.com