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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (93591)4/15/2003 4:20:27 AM
From: Dayuhan  Respond to of 281500
 

Odd, I don't remember anyone who was against the war saying anything like this.

I'm sure there were some. I remember saying this a few times. Of course, there are those on both sides of the fence who do not meet the criterion I specified.

It's a pretty obvious thing, really. Of course there were always going to be some Iraqis who rejoiced at an invasion, and some who would fight it, and many shades in between. I don't think anybody would have denied this; the debate was over the probable distribution between the poles. The debate still hasn't really been resolved.

Of course any generalized prediction of what "The Iraqis" were going to do was nonsense: populations simply don't respond that way, to anything. There's almost always going to be a bell-shaped curve....



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (93591)4/15/2003 9:42:44 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Odd, I don't remember anyone who was against the war saying anything like this. Got links? -g-

I don't see how it would have been possible to believe otherwise. Steven's point that it's the numbers in each of the categories that matters is a large part of what the present debate is about.