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To: slacker711 who wrote (100229)	6/4/2003 4:37:47 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Abbas is now on record to the Prez. What would really be humorous is watching the Nobel committee pass Bush by for a Peace Prize if he pulls this off. In the statements of the two prime ministers, Mr. Abbas supplied grander words than Mr. Sharon. He promised "a complete end to violence and terrorism," as well as the collection of illegal weapons and a stop on any encouragement of violence by Palestinian institutions ? apparently a reference to schools and the news media. But Mr. Abbas did not spell out how he would achieve these aims. nytimes.com I don't see how he can deliver, but it is on his back. Sharon has to pull some trailers down from some outposts. We will see video of angry settlers shaking their fists at Israeli soldiers doing the dirty work. TWT.

To: slacker711 who wrote (100229)	6/4/2003 5:32:46 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

Well, you see, I'm a Strict Constructionist. I believe in Small Government, and am inherently distrustful of Federal interference in people's lives, because they so often make mistakes, and abused their power. I can't find anywhere in the Constitution, where the President (or Congress, or the Supreme Court) is explicitly given the power to assassinate. Well, maybe (if I wasn't a Strict Constructionist) I could stretch the definition of war, to include assassinations. But that's exactly the kind of evil thing the liberals have done with phrases like "equal protection", stretch them to cover anything, anything under the sun. So I won't go there. In conclusion, I think the Founding Fathers must have intended that power, to assassinate, to reside with the States and individual citizens. Or perhaps, they meant that power to be reserved for God alone. As a believer in all those good Republican ideals, and in the humble knowledge that we are all sinners, every last one of us, even the NeoCon Saints (blessed be their name) I can come to no other decision.