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To: sea_urchin who wrote (17850)	4/5/2003 7:33:51 PM
From: Sawdusty	Respond to of 81268

"So, if you are a sensitive American who does not like what he sees I imagine there are now only two choices --- either support your power-crazed president and his henchmen --- or get out." I'm not, and very grateful that I do not have to make either of the two decisions in the last sentence. Best regards,

To: sea_urchin who wrote (17850)	4/5/2003 8:57:56 PM
From: Gary H	Respond to of 81268

<Regrettably, I can find no such reasons. In fact, what I do find is fantasy, arrogance and fascination with ones own ideas and self-importance. In fact, delusions of grandeur. People who are drunk on their own power.> All part and parcel to the "Seven Deadly Sins", Pride, Greed, Envy, Anger, Lust, Gluttony and Sloth.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (17850)	4/6/2003 12:55:14 AM
From: Yorikke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81268

"So, if you are a sensitive American who does not like what he sees I imagine there are now only two choices --- either support your power-crazed president and his henchmen --- or get out." Nobody is going to get out, and the vast majority will quietly wait, and vote them all long vacations in the next election. It has happened before and it will happen again. Even in these times the US is still a democracy of sorts. Many people are not particularly happy with the war, less happy with the evocation that the Lord supports the war, and even less happy with all the trappings of the New Patriotism. If this ends and we don't fall further into a 1984 type conceptual web of naming a new Antichrist to replace the present and cycling the machine once again, then the economy will begin to be an issue, things 'of the nation' will play a greater role in public debate, and people will begin to ask why they must feel unease voicing even the most basic level of dissent. It wont wash with the US public. A leadership that today appears unstoppable will crumble at the precinct polls.