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To: Gary H who wrote (17425)	3/6/2003 6:08:57 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81145

Gary >I don't understand how anyone can consider Saddam as having weapons which will cause horrific damage to people ALL OVER THE WORLD >>>The United States has ''credible information'' that Iraq has dispatched agents to many parts of the world to commit terrorist acts in the event of a US invasion of Iraq, a well-placed Western diplomat said here yesterday. <<< boston.com Now you know. Q: Will Israel feel free to trounce Palestine once Iraq is contained? This is a pertinent question which requires an answer which will make many people very angry. Since I am not looking to be disliked (even more than I already am) I will decline to furnish one. >Seems this guy was some kind of threat. Yes, a big one, just like these. gooff.com

To: Gary H who wrote (17425)	3/7/2003 10:17:26 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 81145

gary >Q: Will Israel feel free to trounce Palestine once Iraq is contained? This piece kind-of answers the question. guardian.co.uk >>>"A Palestinian state must be a reformed and peaceful state that abandons, forever, the use of terror." The argument is that Iraq must be attacked, and then transformed, before any serious progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can take place. The Bush approach effectively postpones, for several years at least, any real attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....<<< Here's Charley Reese (with apologies to those who don't like him!): reese.king-online.com >>>Fairness was once the characteristic of the American republic. It consists simply of doing exactly what our great founder, George Washington, recommended: treat all countries the same, showing neither favoritism nor enmity to any. Moreover, he pleaded, do not involve yourself in other people's feuds and quarrels. And finally, he warned against the evils of foreign influence in our domestic affairs. Every single foreign-policy problem we face, including the threat of terrorism, is a result of violating those three admonitions: We don't treat all nations the same; we do involve ourselves in other people's quarrels; and we have allowed foreign influence to exert tremendous influence on our policies. Far from being the republic Washington and his contemporaries gave us, we have become an empire, very much like Rome.<<<