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To: zonder who wrote (67740)	2/12/2003 11:47:25 AM
From: runes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

<<does not mean he is an irrational human being>> I didn't say he was an irrational person - he is a person with irrational behavior(s). There is a big difference in those two statements. He is not across the board crazy but he does have certain behaviors that are leading him on a self-destructive course. ...Unless you wish to argue that his ultimate goal is to take things to the brink of war, suddenly become "good" Sadam, hand over his WMD to force Bush to back down and then declare that he has stared down the US. It's possible but I will still argue that running such a high stakes game just to claim a partial victory is still not sound behavior. <<he places his trust, which is definitely different than yours (i.e. Bush>> I have made it clear in post after post that I do not like or trust Bush. And yet you try to slip this in. ...Shame on you again! <<Especially holding on to any WMDs he might still have is a very rational decision, given the constant threat of invasion his country is under thanks to the Bush administration>> ...Hmmm - Bush is going to invade me if I have WMD so I had better hang onto my WMD to fight the Bush invasion. I would call that unhealthy reasoning. (And then there's the problem that the WMDs were around long before Bush lite). << don't see why you think those two are mutually exclusive>> How about because financial incentives deal with money and survival incentives deal with life. Hard to interchange those two. <<He can be reasoned with as long as you understand his (ir))rationality>> ...A fair point - I should actually have called it aberrant behavior - deviations from the norm (Sun Tzu's "natural law" or Maslo's hierarchy). And, again he is not aberrant - some of his behaviors are).