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To: stockman_scott who wrote (153088)	2/17/2003 10:23:00 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

Amen <<Walt Rostow, one of the ultimate hawks on Vietnam, died last week. He, along with many others, suffered from an optimism about the use of U.S. military force in that conflict that bordered on delusion. In an obituary Saturday, The Times's Todd Purdum quoted Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, an under secretary of state and attorney general in the Johnson administration, who had argued with Mr. Rostow over the efficacy of U.S. bombing. "I finally understand the difference between Walt and me," said Mr. Katzenbach. "I was the navigator who was shot down and spent two years in a German prison camp, and Walt was the guy picking my targets.">>

To: stockman_scott who wrote (153088)	2/17/2003 10:30:10 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 164684

<<...the essential view of the protesters is that the U.S. and its allies should take all possible steps short of war to squeeze Saddam's regime so tight that survival is all but impossible... That's a hoot, Scott. That's not what the protesters want at all. If the above happened, they'd just hit the streets again and go back to calling Bush a baby-killer (ironic, isn't it?) for not allowing the lifting of sanctions they say are the real reason for the suffering of the Iraqi people.