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To: elpolvo who wrote (22616)	2/4/2003 6:21:29 PM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104157

i didn't feel it. i was busy focusing on anti-war thoughts. You are gonna catch a cold. Be careful. Here's my wild arse guess about the war. <Clappy takes out his crystal ball and deck of cards.> I'm going to guess that there is no war. Somehow a deal will be made where Sadam gets to keep a small fortune of dough and is given a place to live. Possibly in some small island off of South America somewhere. This enables Shrub to set in place the pupet gov't his advisors so desperately want over there. Then they begin to battle the war on terrorism on the next strategically important piece of real estate. Acting as war crazed as he is now, Shrub has a lot of leverage to do things he would not have ordinarily been able to do. Many people believe there will be war. I think Shrub feels like he's playing a game of Texas Holdem Poker. He's looking for someone to blink. If we don't go to war we might see a bump up in our economy. He'd like that. He needs that. Perhaps more than war. So I'm going to keep glancing at the headlines but quickly turn to the sports page or the comics. Gonna try not to catch a cold. -Clappy

To: elpolvo who wrote (22616)	2/5/2003 10:40:02 AM
From: Mannie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 104157

Wednesday, February 5, 2003 Letters to the Editor IRAQ Our motives for war are mighty transparent The Columbia astronauts suffered a horrific fate, but can we honestly claim that, in the divine scheme of things, their lives were worth more than those of the innocent children we're prepared to blow to bits in Iraq? The motive for our designs on Iraq are so transparent -- oil profits, military dominance and Bush-family revenge -- that only the most gullible non-thinker cannot see through them; and the near-hysterical patriotic zeal with which many support that action is so arrogant and aggressive that only those at the mercy of primitive emotions would elect to be a party to it. The tragedy that befell the Columbia was a terrible accident for which no one is to blame. Conversely, the blood of the Iraqi children will stain the hands of every single American who does not rise up in protest against their needless slaughter. Tom Robbins La Conner