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To: zonder who wrote (3257)	8/20/2003 9:45:14 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

The Washington Post and Journal both ponder today the possibility that the bombing and other attacks on civilian targets in Iraq could backfire and actually increase support for the U.S. and its fight against the guerillas. It's true, I don't do much international travelling, but I do have a family connection to a respected (nonreligious) international medical assistance organization, and I'm told the picture the media is painting of Iraqi disgruntlement with the U.S. is not as black and white as many people here believe it is. There are a lot of nasty power plays happening in that country, I don't know where it will all end, but I'm hoping for the best. (Somebody shoot me!)

To: zonder who wrote (3257)	8/20/2003 10:10:34 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 20773

... but also in terms of shattered international cooperation and discredited law and organizations, not to mention loss of legitimacy for US leadership in the world. In essence, the Bush administration is playing the role of vigilante instead of lawful posse. amazon.com <font color=brown>In the spring of 1885 word comes to a rural Nevada town of a rancher shot through the head and fifty head of cattle rustled. A posse forms to lynch the culprits. Leadership of the blood-thirsty posse is usurped from the hot-headed deputy sheriff by a wanna-be Confederate major. This “Major Tetley” orders his grown son along, telling him, “This will make a man out of you.” Three men are caught with the 50 head of cattle, but they protest their innocence. The posse hangs them anyway. The son is among the seven men who vote against the lynching, but he is clearly a coward. As the posse rides away, leaving three bodies swinging from a tree, the sheriff arrives, bringing news that vindicates the three dead cattlemen. The members of the posse regret their hasty actions, but it’s too late for their three victims, one of whom leaves a widow with two young children. Back in town, Major Tetley locks his cowardly son out of the mansion. The son admits to being a coward, but he tells the old man that his concept of manliness is based on power and cruelty. The man's reason for wanting his son to show courage is that his cowardice reflects poorly on the father.</font> TP