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To: Ilaine who wrote (66859)	1/19/2003 12:59:24 AM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

It's a matter of due process versus vigilantism. If I know my neighbor is a violent criminal, and I think he might attack me or, say, one of my Hebrew friends, that does not entitle me to walk over to his house and shoot him. If he actually attacks or credibly threatens to, however, then self-defense might be justified. IMO Hussein is presently in the first category wrt the U.S., not the second. If action is to be taken, it should be done with due legal process, and in this case that means through the U.N. Obviously that is an imperfect institution, but I like it a lot better than allowing a U.S. president to take vigilante action to satisfy a perceived blood-lust in his population for "revenge against the rag-heads". I was too young to understand Vietnam at the time, but I think I'd have felt the same way about that war.