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To: marcos who wrote (112748)	8/25/2003 6:58:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If one person group or country coming up with an idea makes in unilateral even if several or many people groups or countries join in on it later then a majority of actions are unilateral. The UK was bullied or threatened in to taking part in the war on Iraq, nor did the governments of Australia, Poland, or Spain have their lesser parts shoved down their throats. Tim

To: marcos who wrote (112748)	8/25/2003 7:02:45 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Unilateral , I think I have almost got that figured out.... Jim "Anyone want to go down and skip stones in the river?" "Yeah, sounds good" " Count me in too. OK?" " I wanna go, maybe we can hit a duck" Jimmy has just made a unilateral decision that his three friends will go with him to skip stones in the river and kill a duck thru unilateral action. Sig@stilldontsoundright.com

To: marcos who wrote (112748)	8/25/2003 7:27:35 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Which sense of 'unilateral' pretty much sums up the PNAC permawar doctrine, especially as it applies to this war on Iraq - it was cooked up quite unilaterally in the back rooms of Washington, then marketed to the US public using all the 'Things related and not' catchphrases, then shoved down the throats of would-be allies using a variety of forms of bribery and bullying that can be summed up in the most unilateral obscenity 'yer with us or yer agin us'> Precisely -- it was not merely unilateral in the events pertaining to Iraq -- it was specifically designed to drive home the unilateral nature of US policy as the cornerstone of a fundamental new approach to US foreign policy.