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To: JohnM who wrote (66413)	1/16/2003 2:39:50 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

John, Only the folks in power say "We are reasonable; it's all those others who are unreasonable." It strikes me that you and particularly Scott are doing quite alot of this yourselves. So it works both ways and folks on both sides need to not let stridency get in the way of reasonable debate. By the way Nadines 9/11 point is well taken and had nothing to do with implicating saddam. Just that sometimes the cost of doing nothing is far greater than one imagines. Mike

To: JohnM who wrote (66413)	1/16/2003 2:59:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

We, of course, see this strategy of refutation all too often. It goes something like, I would love to see reasonable disagreements but this one (whichever one is being pilloried) is well beyond unreasonable. I see. A hysterical screed entitled "The United States of America has Gone Mad" penned by a well-known author of spy novels that calls the Bush administration a war-mongering "junta" is being unjustly pushed beyond the pale; it ought to be respectfully addressed as a weighty argument of the Left, or the Democrats, or the opposition, or something. Um, haven't they got any better arguments to put forward? You'd do better if you stuck to defending the defensible.