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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (19681)	3/12/2003 9:45:32 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Please, Mr.Saddam, please don't make us have to start the war. Give up your weapons. You and your people will suffer a lot more than the USA will.

To: epicure who wrote (19681)	3/12/2003 11:21:35 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

<<< ... Why do the liberal interventionists who fear that Saddam Hussein might one day deploy a weapon of mass destruction refuse to see that George Bush is threatening to do just this against an ever-growing number of states? Is it because they cannot face the scale of the threat, and the scale of the resistance necessary to confront it? Is it because these brave troopers cannot look the real terror in the eye? >>> monbiot.com

To: epicure who wrote (19681)	3/12/2003 11:26:42 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc. openly advocating biological warfare: <<< “And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool. This is merely a glimpse of the possibilities inherent in the process of transformation, not a precise prediction. Whatever the shape and direction of this revolution in military affairs, the implications for continued American military preeminence will be profound. As argued above, there are many reasons to believe that U.S. forces already possess nascent revolutionary capabilities, particularly in the realms of intelligence, command and control, and longrange precision strikes. Indeed, these capabilities are sufficient to allow the armed services to begin an “interim,” short- to medium-term process of transformation right away, creating new force designs and operational concepts – designs and concepts different than those contemplated by the current defense program – to maximize the capabilities that already exist.” >>> Note the bolded text. That is a wonderful example of the manipulation of the term terrorism. Violence by underdogs is "terror", violence by the powerful elite is a "politically useful tool". monbiot.com