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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (70146)	4/30/2003 3:43:15 PM
From: Fred Levine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Sun--I never bought the Bush argument that Iraq posed an immediate threat to the US. Bush didn't have the vision of Tony Blair. The issue is whether crimes against humanity should be ignored by the international community or, by acceptance, be encouraged. It does seem that Saddam's crimes were even worse than we knew. As for WMD, the game is not over. fred

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (70146)	4/30/2003 3:45:33 PM
From: runes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

<<Thanks to this pattern of loud assertions and muted or suppressed retractions, the American public probably believes that we went to war to avert an immediate threat — just as it believes that Saddam had something to do with Sept. 11. >> ...And isn't that the sad truth! I am reminded that a poll taken at the start of the war found that 35% of Americans believed that Saddam was involved in the attack on the WTC. I am not sure which bothers me more - that the public are so easily led astray or that we are governed by politicians who's careers depend on their ability to lead us astray. (And here I do not differentiate between the elephants and the donkeys). ...There are days when I think that our declining education system is actually a ploy by politicians in order to make us more easily controlled.