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

To: PartyTime who wrote (7215)	2/11/2003 5:42:00 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 25898

Former " cool-heads " of the CIA ,huh ? I wonder what successful past opps they were involved in? Terrorism, the CIA veterans said, is like malaria. "You don't eliminate malaria by killing the flies. Rather you must drain the swamp. With an invasion of Iraq, the world can expect to be swamped with swamps breeding terrorists. In human terms, your daughters are unlikely to be able to travel abroad in future years without a phalanx of security personnel." they sound pretty hysterical to me , for Liberating Iraq ---> is draining one of the swamps....for good . The Al_Quaida are a rabble.

To: PartyTime who wrote (7215)	2/11/2003 6:30:40 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 25898

They urged the Bush administration to "re-read" the CIA report that pointed out: "The forces fueling hatred of the United States and fueling al Qaida recruiting are not being addressed" and that "the underlying causes that drive terrorists will persist." Like the Madrassas schools in Pakistan that teach the youth that the Jew and the Americans are ferocious dinosaurs that will come devour them ? ;-) You could do more to end this ignorance with giving them all PC's with copys of Encarta in the program to become familiar with the geography/history etc, of the world at large. Not this useless medieval religious indoctrination and brainwashing. Ever think how stimulating it would be to expose these young people to some of the more real and fascinating aspects of the world and it's---> arts & sciences ? Would put alot of holy-rolling "mullahs" out of work overnight...

To: PartyTime who wrote (7215)	2/11/2003 7:44:51 AM
From: The Barracuda™	Respond to of 25898

Nope, they're either stupid or evil. Maybe both.

To: PartyTime who wrote (7215)	2/11/2003 7:57:34 AM
From: The Barracuda™	Respond to of 25898

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment HG Wells War of the Worlds