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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (85721)	3/24/2003 4:13:38 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Jacob, Further: When a 30-year-old man has sex with a 13-year-old girl, the law calls this rape. And it doesn't matter if the girl said it is consensual. It doesn't matter whether the man is gentle, caring, provides for the girl's housing/feeding/clothing, sends her to dance classes and piano lessons, says he loves her, assumes responsibility for any resulting children. The law still calls it rape. It is rape, because the law assumes, simply and solely based on the disparity in power between the two, that the act could not have been consensual, that the act is exploitive. Were you surprised by the PC Hollywood crowd giving Roman Polanski a standing ovation last night? I was. John

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (85721)	3/24/2003 4:37:48 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Jacob, like you I don't like this war, but I think comparing it to colonization is wrong. We will leave Iraq soon enough and we will reap a huge net economic loss from this war, which is hardly colonization, in my view. The US occupation of Iraq will be under a world microscope and we will lose many of the 45 countries that support us, to say nothing of our Iraqi supporters, if there is a hint of attempting to profit from Iraq's occupation. Kyros