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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (98831)	5/8/2003 2:16:00 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

a foaming at the mouth Republican Congressman who felt it was time to change the reasons for going to war, since our original reasons haven't worked out. Ted Koppel has jumped on that bandwagon: <<< ... On yesterday's Nightline, Ted Koppel spotted what may be a more promising explanatory trial balloon -- "all's fair in love and war". By this thesis, we were never serious about WMD. WMD was never anything more than a necessary selling tool for war. War was necessary and salutary as an "object lesson" to lesser beings, reminding them (for their own good) that the US is big and tough. Why now? "9/11 changed everything". Why Iraq? No special reason ... Iraq presented itself as an adversary of convenience. Koppel gathered unabashed supporting testimony from B-list neocon hawks, including former CIA Director Woolsey. So no WMDs -- and no apologies! You've been had, John Q. Public, and it's for your own good! Same for you, Coalition of the Willing! A disturbing new development, but this looks like the Real McCoy! Over to you, Wolf ... >>> cogenteur.blogspot.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (98831)	5/8/2003 2:45:34 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

<< Bob You've been the most watchful on the matter of SARS....wonder what you think of the idea brought forth by a LATimes reader who sent a letter to the editiors on the matter. What he wrote was that SARS points up a glaring weakness in the USA.....and that SARS also points out the danger of a bio-terror attack..........that is to say: when you have a disease like SARS, whether it be naturally introduced or used as a weapon, the nation is put at risk because we have so many millions uninsured citizens.......so many millions who cannot afford private health care............consequently, were SARS (or other epidemic) to reach these shores you'd have bus boys going to work at restaurants if their symptoms were not yet so severe as to send then to bed----same with short order cooks----McDonald and Burger King workers.....and kids going to school who should be home excepting there is no one to care for them nor money to pay for a doctor.......etc........ In short, SARS now represents the best argument ever for universal/single-payer health insurance......such insurance represents the best possible HOMELAND DEFENSE against bio-terror and ought to be treated as such. Think I'll send this on to Dick Gephardt and see if he speaks to the matter. j ===== "For every complex problem, there is a simple, easy to understand, incorrect answer." (Physiologist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)>>

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (98831)	5/9/2003 12:51:32 AM
From: Yogizuna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

What would you expect from O'Reilly, who bragged about committing assault and battery while attending college, when he threw a student out of a window for playing Led Zeppelin or something like that at a late hour, because he had football practice in the morning....