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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (81292)	3/11/2003 3:41:45 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If the person in question were male, and wore a sweatshirt to testify to the House of Representatives, and appeared unshaven, hair unkempt, and had a flat and whiny affect, would you suggest that he should be castrated?

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (81292)	3/11/2003 3:58:24 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

OK, let's try this again. I am a professional woman so I believe that I have the right to comment on the failure of a professional woman to rise to the occasion, especially when this was probably the most serious occasion of her public life. The Iraqi regime badly miscalculated that they could invade Kuwait and suffer no ill consequences. After things went wrong, they blamed Ms. Glaspie, and released a doctored transcript of her conversation with Saddam. I don't blame her for being very pissed off. I don't blame her for resenting being made the scapegoat for the death and destruction which was caused solely by the will of Saddam. She was made a scapegoat to assuage his ego. However, if you listen to her testimony, it is also true that her words were capable of being twisted to suit his purposes. She said something which was ambiguous, and Saddam used it to provide himself with cover. No, it wasn't a green light. Yes, it was ambiguous if taken out of context. Saddam is a shit, and he shit all over her. Very sad. I still would have put on a jacket and held my head up high, and not presented myself as Joan of Arc being taken to the pyre, and I hope I wouldn't have had to hold back tears of self-pity. I can't imagine Henry Kissinger wallowing in self-pity in public. Or, for that matter, Hillary Clinton. Some people have more pride.