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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (86427)	3/26/2003 8:41:06 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Nuclear Genocide? Piercing through the depleted uranium myths .....there is always a claque of activists who simply will pick up any stick with which to beat and demonize the United States. For them, the myth of severe DU toxicity is just another handy stick..... And we have seen posts here on their nonsense. Here is an article from Reason that refutes them. reason.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (86427)	3/26/2003 8:47:34 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, Forget leaders for a moment. Look how different the american peoples response was to Sundays bad news about casualties and POWs. If anything it has steeled us and added to bush support. Contrast that to somalia when we took 20 casualties (with desecration of the remains), but killed 1000 militia terrorist and cut and ran because we considered this a defeat. It wasnt only clinton, it was then still the post-vietnam, pre 9/11 world that europeans dont seem to get. Sometimes i wonder what would be the case now if 9/11 happened in Paris and Berlin rather than NY and DC? I dont have an answer on whether those nations would have responded like we did or would have become more pacifica and into more appeasement. Mike

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (86427)	3/26/2003 9:18:10 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>As I see it, 9/11 made Americans realize two things, (as it made me realize them): 1) The Middle East is deeply rotten. 2) Their problems are now our problems.<< This is very good. They now have our full attention, which they did not have before.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (86427)	3/26/2003 9:26:53 AM
From: paul_philp	Respond to of 281500

US Apologist Man We should form a society, The International Apologist for America, publish a journal, I'm Sorry They're Sorry, hold a conference in Florence, publish a book and go on Fox news. Perhaps AEI would sponsor us. Paul

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (86427)	3/26/2003 10:01:21 AM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>US really is a democracy, that it does have freedom of speech, and that the proportion of idiots to well-informed people is not significantly higher there than here, (not even among the hawks), than I do discussing the war itself, but that's the way it is> Good Point. Only that US can recover from its misjudgements made in wars, the weaker countries that are affected may take a generation. The kind of damage Baghdad is experiencing is on the same scale as New York saw in 911. Granted that the US forces are being extremely careful in choosing its targets, it does hurt to see your city being destroyed. Lot of people feel that way about the WTC buildings.