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To: Sully- who wrote (17295)	4/15/2003 4:48:34 PM
From: tonka552000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

you missed the point... :o/

To: Sully- who wrote (17295)	4/15/2003 5:16:16 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

perhaps we should have used 2000 Special Ops troops taken out the leaders of the Baath Party taken out the leaders of their Republican Guard if they were so ill-prepared, we could have succeeded with a more daring and surgical plan, eh? then let a coup take place which would have saved perhaps 80,000 lives of soldiers who probably wanted eagerly to surrender or not to wear a uniform at all we have laws against targeting heads of state, even if dictators but we have no laws against killing 80,000 unwilling conscripts who wear a uniform with a rifle at their backs the fact that you see nothing ethically abhorrent with this is disgusting to me you put extremes as the only alternatives, Tim very weak imagination and usage of your vast intellectual powers such argumentation is a close cousin to the usage of "Straw Dogs" neither technique of arguing is effective neither is impressive so we do nothing and implicitly encourage tyranny ..... or push buttons, drop bombs from 35,000 feet, launch missiles from 500 miles away, kill 1500 civilians, bomb Al Jezeera hqtrs, slaughter like sheep 80,000 unwilling ragtag coerced soldiers, knock out water delivery systems for several million, torpedo Al Jezeera again in their hotel, disrupt food supply lines, ..... and transform a "Oil for Food Program" into a "Hand to Mouth Food Program" with USTroops as delivery boys man oh man, you have no inventive mind the best days of this war are over I was wrong about the guerrilla fighting, since it has been largely averted but I believe we will see more and more suicide bombers in the many weeks ahead and I believe we will see more looting, more delivery difficulties we must now feed an entire large nation from hand to mouth we cannot stop we must deliver 200,000 gallons of water every few days in Basra alone I expect Kuwait City will soon turn the spigot off AND EXTREME PROBLEMS WHEN WATER SUPPLIES ARE IN SHORT SUPPLY IN THE HOT SUMMER they might lead to riots, which I fully expect what has surprised you? what have you been wrong about, if anything, in forecasts and expectations? where do you regard the biggest risks? or will this democracy process proceed swimmingly in your view? / jim p.s. please, I can handle no more it's and its' <G> get it right it's = it is (a contraction) its = possessive of it (as in his, hers, theirs, yours) its' = evidence of illiteracy