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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (2349)	1/19/2003 7:21:27 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 25898

Good point. Rumsfeld was very impressive on Fox today...

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (2349)	1/19/2003 7:50:01 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Well, your one of two possibilities discount a possible third, and maybe a fourth. 3) Arab nations come up with a plan and in presenting it to the US say something to the effect: This is our region of the world, we live here, we want this plan. Either you accept this, or you can go buy your oil somewhere else. How would Bush deal with this--send that military deployment to Venezuela? Take over the entire MidEast? 4) As the thread header indicates, Blix and his weapons inspection team can refuse to leave and just, with UN blessing, keep on inspecting. There's no doubt Saddam rules with the hand of the thug. But history also shows he backs down when pressed, the greatest example being he didn't use chemical or biological weapons during the last Gulf War, this under the threat that had he done so he would have been obliterated. Saddam can't kill all the Westerners. He wouldn't want to. Ultimately, he'd like their business and trade. Sorry, folks. The sky ain't fallin'!

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (2349)	1/19/2003 7:53:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

Re: Your chances of getting a rescission of the use of force authorization is ZILCH. All you can do is encourage Saddam- -which increases the chance of war. Please do not misrepresent the goals or tasks of the antiwar movement. We do not endorse or hope to encourage the Hussein regime. We are attempting the stop an immoral and unjustified aggression on the part of the U.S. government. In this battle, the enemy is the U.S. government, violating the tenets of our Constitution and our common heritage. Saddam Hussein is extraneous to the concerns and calculation of the great preponderance of anti-war activists. Please refrain from the lie that we in any way support Saddam Hussein. We do not. We are opposed to the destruction of our basic American values by an evil regime which has taken our federal government in a judicial coup d'etat and is proving to be the worst Administration, from the point of view of the best interests of the preponderance of the citizens, that this country that has ever been forced to endure. Salaams, Ray Regional Coordinator -- Central Oregon Not In Our Name