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To: tejek who wrote (163688)	3/10/2003 3:39:07 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575047

Huh? H. Thomas is not a reporter? I don't know much about her but I am pretty certain she's a journalist of long standing Well, I'm "pretty sure" you're wrong. She is not a reporter, she is a columnist. She has not been a reporter for some time. She is afforded a seat in the press room only as a courtesy.

To: tejek who wrote (163688)	3/10/2003 7:01:22 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1575047

Ted Re.. "Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'" Her short list of answers seems not to vary from war, President Bush, timid office-holders, a muffled press and cowed citizens, pretty much in that order. No wonder you like her. She hates Gw almost as much as you do. She is 82 and senile though. However, her hatred for Gw colors her questions, and makes her observations through colored glasses irrelevant. The president doesn't have the option to ignore threats to America. In fact, that is the main part of his job. Winston Churchill, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Louis Brandeis, George Santayana, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. all made appearances in Thomas' sweeping portrayal of what she sees as the administration's betrayal of both the character and will of the American people and the principles of democracy. Instead of just taking selective passages, she should consider the whole. Churchill, and Lincoln both were great war leaders, and while they hated war, saw that war was a necessity sometimes. I assume she was against Afghanistan also, if she is so dead set against war, however any president who ignored Afghanistan, would be voted out for dereliction of duty. It's bombs away for Iraq and on our civil liberties if Bush and his cronies get their way. Dissent is patriotic!" Not all dissent is patriotic, nor are all wars patriotic. It depends upon the war and the dissent. "I have never covered a president who actually wanted to go to war. Bush's policy of pre-emptive war is immoral - such a policy would legitimize Pearl Harbor. It's as if they learned none of the lessons from Vietnam," she said to enthusiastic applause. Which makes me wonder how senile she is. Pearl Harbor wasn't just a pre emptive strike. It was war period. While Vietnam was pre emptive, so was SK. Why not tell the good with the bad. Almost all of the battles we fought to contain communism the last 60 yrs were pre emptive.