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To: Sig who wrote (118510)	11/4/2003 11:48:17 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Of course people die every day- is your argument that augmenting the death toll isn't really significant, because people do die every day? We could really minimize the impact of 9/11, too, using that logic. Which I guess I don't have a problem with, as long as you are consistent with your minimizations.

To: Sig who wrote (118510)	11/4/2003 12:49:10 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<people die everyday, war or no war> 40,000 people die yearly in traffic accidents in the U.S. Does this mean the rate of deaths in futile wars of conquest is acceptable to you, until it is greater than 40,000/year? Or should we use the rate of unnecessary deaths from nicotine (450,000/year)? Is it OK to kill that many per year to secure our oil supplies and "teach the towelheads a lesson"? The Jihadists dreaming of their 70 virgins (what do the female suicide bombers dream about?), and the EndOfDays Christians (who want Israel to tear down the Mosque on the Temple Mount, and rebuild the Jewish Temple, so we can get on with the Revelations Road Map), they agree with you. Life is cheap, we all die anyway, the afterlife is what's important, best thing to do is go out in a blaze of glory.