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To: LindyBill who wrote (68309)	1/24/2003 9:48:13 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

Re: Underdogs Same logic is why israel was the darling of the left through 1956 and the suez campaign where here alignment with England and France was echewed by the left and even IKE. Leftist support for the arab cause picked up much momentum after the 6 day war in 1967. If it were the six year war instead of 6 days, israel might have enjoyed more support. <gg> Another example is how the left treats saddam. Before Kuwait he was a military strongman and a mass murderer and the left hated him. Now he has the mantle of being an anti-imperialist and all is forgiven, alright then, much is forgiven. In my opinion, there is an anti-american, anti israeli, anti western civilization streak on the Left and its based on doctrines of moral relativism which leads to justifications for things such as terror or at least explanations. I say this as a relativist myself who does not allow tolerance and multicultural views to become excuses for the purveyors of violence and terror. mike

To: LindyBill who wrote (68309)	1/24/2003 11:11:12 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There are many of us who would be in a bar right now if it weren't for prayer...

To: LindyBill who wrote (68309)	1/24/2003 8:27:29 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Wonder what Lewis will say when after President Bush does give the evidence about Iraq and the situation re WMD? Perhaps then Lewis will find out the real reason Bob Woodward didn't go into what actually happened between Sept 11th, and the decision to go to war with Iraq....? After all, Woodward must have had to sign papers stating he could not divulge any secret information until after the President did... But, what a book that would be....The circle in a circle.... Another thing....evidently Lewis believes that people need to be led by the brain so they will know what to think....that it's not enough to just put "what happened day by day into clear prose", and leave the judgement to the reader.... "But it is history of a curious kind, lacking the essentials of a historian's work: context, analysis, a point of view. Woodward might well disclaim the title "historian." He has no point of view, he would say. He aims simply to tell us what happened, item by item. The absence of analysis makes Bush at War a frustrating book. Page after page raises questions in the reader's mind that Woodward does not mention, much less try to answer. Again and again one wants to know how we got from A to B. A critical example is when and how the war on terrorism was transmuted into a war on Iraq."