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To: SirRealist who wrote (82165)	3/14/2003 7:16:20 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well and a hello to you, Kevin. I thought I saw you lurking around the edges of things and then, wham, you jumped right in. As for your comments on my comments about Karen's comments: 1. Agree that WMD has been very badly defined. If one got even reasonably serious about that the bombings of Dresden in WWII certainly fall under that category. But we are dealing with political categories which, for unacceptable reasons, are given permission to be slippier. The US gets to define them and then implement them. 2. I don't think there is any argument about Saddam's support for "terrorists." The point I made, and continue to make, is that these are groups grounded within ME conflicts; they are not what I've been terming global terrorists. And those "terrorists" in Iraq did not have anything to do with 9-11 which is the basic rationale for the attack on Iraq. 3. As for a greater case for pre-emptive attacks on other countries, I have grave misgivings about the concept in the form in which the Bush administration uses it. 4. The big issue on this front for me, at least right now, is none of the above. It is rather the proliferation of nuclear technology. Particularly with countries, such as North Korea, willing to simply create a market in such. I think the best, perhaps the only, way to address that is via strong international institutions, which is about as contrary to present Bush policy as one can get. Good to see you back on the board. Be sure to enjoy yourself.