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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (100257)	6/5/2003 12:50:14 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

One big reason that third world farmers grow coca, instead of corn, is U.S. subsidies to U.S. farmers, and trade restraints, that depress international prices for legitimate crops. Hey you're grinding my axe! I've had some really hard discussions with folk on this board about the destructiveness of the subsidies, not onlty with regard to 3rd world places but also the negative effect they have on the subsidizers' economies. I've read enough of Peters to know he'd agree with us about the subsidy matter. He'd say it's preferable to induce conditions that don't lead to the disfunctional situation. But the drug dealers and terrorists and criminal regimes would still be there andf he'd still argue for his approach to them, I think. Except, instead of stringing him up, I'd give him a shovel and wheelbarrow, and sentence him to unearthing the contents of the mass graves, every body. That ought to take "the rest of his natural life." Symbolic acts are important. In the case of Hussein, the dead body would be a symbol with far greater impact. His dead body is needed by a lot of folk in Iraq, not for vengance, but as a sign of the end of an evil period. Many folk still fear him and others still support him because he's not demonstrably dead. Some folk need to be killed and he's one.