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To: Dayuhan who wrote (77974)	2/26/2003 8:49:27 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Steven, Bravo. Very well said. However, a large number of posts appear on this forum from what you have described as the lunatic fringe. Many of us who support timely action on Saddam have completely run out of patience with the knee jerk anti-War propoganda. In my case, if any of my posts have offended you - I apologise. At times I feel the same frustration you have just vented (if from the opposite fringe). The trouble with our extremes is that it pollutes the converstaion and breeds the contempt you speak of. John

To: Dayuhan who wrote (77974)	2/26/2003 10:00:07 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Stephen - I don't expect you to have any compassion or sympathy for the administration, but if you look at the larger picture, foreign policy never was a big ticket item in the US. The Constitution basically dumps it into the hands of the President. Most people on earth never heard of Burkina Faso, much less Melbourne, so, no matter what "policy wonks" think, their effective range of effectiveness is limited. On any given day, the President has an awful lot on his plate, from judicial nominations to the economy to education (his real love) to every othet God-damned thing you can imagine. Not asking you to feel sorry for him, the buck stops there. But is it really true that the fine points of, say, guerilla warfare in the Philippines are more important than, say, prescription drug subsidies for senior citizens, or the makeup of the next Supreme Court, or WTF went wrong with the space shuttle Columbia, or stem cell research? So, no, he probably doesn't know what you know like the back of your hand, but that doesn't make him an asshole. Not in my book, anyway. And you're not an asshole, either. And neither am I. So, please, take a deep breath, and go back to doing what you do best. Illuminate, elucidate, and don't have a cow.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (77974)	2/27/2003 1:14:12 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

?Our choice is between immediate invasion and doing nothing.? Steve, you know we have 200,000 plus troops on the ground. If we "March them back down the Hill" we will effectively have given in to Saddam. He can continue to "rope a dope" as he did after Clinton's failure to deal with him in '98. Plus we will have proved to the world we have no staying power. We have a History of running in FA. Lebanon, Somalia, the Cole, the Embassies, etc. So I don't think this proposition is so far out of line.