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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (69155)	1/27/2003 5:00:21 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

An ounce -- You compare thousands or hundreds of thousands vaporized by remote control as "an ounce"... What would you consider "a pound"... tactical nukes? Recall anything at all about Gulf War I ? Do you have any concept of the level of violence the next battle will bring? Forget that it's a TV show with pretty lights, there are people being blown apart in there, in large numbers, in your name. Forget that it's a nintendo war, at least in the minds of proponents who don't have to participate, and that those irresponsible proponents like to claim a clean and "splendid little war" to recall a famous quote, and forget that any war, but this one in particular, has dangers as the CIA as foretold on our home soil, to you and your family ... The prediction is that terrorism here in the US will expand, not decrease, a rather contrary position for the Executive. But, forget all that -- then take a look at the lethal damage planned for Baghdad, and various other points on the Iraqi map. These are human beings literally forced at gunpoint to engage this battle, as we're told and have no reason to doubt. We know this. They are then reduced them to paste, in large numbers, on command of the Executive Branch. It seems there should be a convincing "clear and present" reason. That distant geopolitical cowboys like Perle appear to have no regard for human life in their Brzezinski power plays is one issue. More to the point of the military and State dissidents, anything in the way of extreme mass violence that appears capricious has terrible consequences for US diplomacy and military cooperation and planning for decades. The other issue is trusting what we're being told by the Executive, which, after flip-flops and vague generalities looks like a rush to judgement, in advance of real facts, for purposes other than stated. "There are two reasons a man does something -- a good reason, and the real reason" -- JP Morgan