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To: Poet who wrote (4840)	2/10/2003 11:19:56 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7689

LOL! Only it seems in some quarters that the present hysterics are actually being given credence. We were at another family's house for dinner on Saturday night. Well, I still call it "dinner" though the word no longer fits the occasion since my doctor prohibited me from real eating. <g> Anyway, the host brought up Iraq, and opined why we essentially we should leave well enough alone, and then when I suggested that maybe allowing somebody to flout so brazenly international agreements for disarmament renders all such agreements with the UN and the US absolutely meaningless, he said, well, the economy is not good right now, so we should wait until it is. At that point I asked him whether we should send a message to the world that all agreements with the US would only be enforced when our economy was "good" (as an aside, I pointed out to him that our current unemployment rate is lower than it has been for roughly half of the past 30 years). Then he trotted out the "Saddam has terrible weapons and just might use them" argument, at which point my wife, fearing my tone becoming too argumentative, changed the subject. <g>