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To: velociraptor_ who wrote (7904)	2/14/2003 12:14:42 AM
From: Roads End	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10157

911 was a first strike IMO. What do you think? I happen to believe Iraq had a big part in that. Do you not?

To: velociraptor_ who wrote (7904)	2/14/2003 12:44:51 AM
From: Abner Hosmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10157

All of this crap about "America the Bully" and "Who Are We To Judge", what a bunch of shit. We are the one's who have handled the dirty work of cleaning up the garbage and putting up a roof of peace and prosperity over half of the world for the last 60 years. Saying that we have no right to lecture on the subject of North Korea and Iraq.. that's an absurd and suicidal sense of moral equivalency you've displayed. Maybe you think those two nations have a right to put us in our place. You talk like we are morally obliged to foreswear the use of force against nations like Iraq and North Korea, only then can we expect them, and the World, to follow.. I'll admit that we have one deep problem here, and that, frankly, is the apalling treachery and weakness of the leftists who hold power in Germany and France. Aggressors have taken note.. count on it.

To: velociraptor_ who wrote (7904)	2/14/2003 5:31:05 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 10157

in terms of finance and wealth, there is certainly an obvious bifurcation among the poor and wealthy nations, with some exceptions. It appears that the prosperity of a nation and its people is in direct relation to the degree to which the rights of their individual citizens are strong and secure. Everyone is welcome to join the club. Countries run by dictators and corrupt Mafia-like groups of thugs do not do well.

To: velociraptor_ who wrote (7904)	2/16/2003 12:37:38 AM
From: Abner Hosmer	Respond to of 10157

Defiant Iraq spurns French 'alternative' Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, has rebuffed the controversial plan drawn up by France and Germany last week aimed at avoiding military action in the Gulf. ..Mr Sabri flatly rejected any suggestion that blue-helmeted peacekeepers could operate in Iraq. "No Iraqi would accept the deployment of such a force," he told the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat. ...In the meantime, Bulgaria has vowed to resist French attempts to bully it into withdrawing support for America's plans to disarm Iraq. Last week the French ambassador to Sofia warned Bulgaria that its pro-American stance could jeopardise its efforts to join the European Union. "Bulgaria has to consider carefully where its long-term interests lie," Jean Loup Kuhn-Delforge said last week. "When people live in Europe they should express solidarity and think European-style." Solomon Pasi, Bulgaria's foreign minister, condemned the French as neo-appeasers. Well, so much for that idea. Hosmer