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To: studdog who wrote (77869)	2/26/2003 4:44:20 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<I guess the administration has decided to trot out these reasons because they think we are too stupid to understand the real ones> Or they think that Americans would not support goals as ambitious as the Administration's. What the Administration is hinting at, is nothing less than re-colonization of the Middle East. Egypt (before Nasser), was superficially an independant nation. It had a flag, an army, a government, a legal system, etc. But if you looked closer, you saw that every department in the government had a British "advisor", and the Egyptian who officially ran the department, always did what the "advisor" told him to do. So sovereignity was a fiction, the reality was colonialism-by-proxy, the rulers were white with a brown mask. That's what the Bush Plan is. And when the American public realizes this, the anti-war protests will get a lot bigger.

To: studdog who wrote (77869)	2/26/2003 5:41:31 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I guess the administration has decided to trot out these reasons because they think we are too stupid to understand the real ones. I don't think anyone who keeps up with it is in the dark about what we want to do. It is posted here daily. Those of us who favor it see it as the right thing. Those that don't think it is the wrong thing. Or do you think there is some sort of "Conspiracy?"

To: studdog who wrote (77869)	2/26/2003 6:27:37 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 281500

When will we see the Republican-controlled congress introduce legislation to give the president a half or dozen or more terms? (LOL)

To: studdog who wrote (77869)	2/26/2003 6:53:50 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Just caught a bit of Hamid Karzai testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I was pleased that he mentioned, with gratitude, that the US had helped Afghanistan get rid of invaders twice, once the Soviets and once the terrorists. From my perspective, the war on Iraq can be reduced to two words, "delegitimize terrorism." Terrorism as a political tool should go the way of the dodo. Saddam sponsors terrorism. He has to go. He wasn't the first and he won't be the last.