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To: mcg404 who wrote (19812)	12/16/2003 8:15:55 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81029

John > Tribal allegiance trumps ALL facts, ALL the time. You don't have to tell me, it's what we are facing here in darkest Africa all the time. SA President Mbeki goes around espousing democracy --- that's until he meets a ruthless, racist, fascist dictator like Zimbabwe's Mugabe, and then all that is forgotten as they embrace each other in their common Africanism and anti-white bigotry.

To: mcg404 who wrote (19812)	12/16/2003 8:33:23 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81029

John <the possibility of the "real" Saddam standing up one day and saying "I'm still alive" would be an unacceptable risk.> That's not what I felt, but Phil. You quoted from my response to him. > You are worrying way too much on behalf of the neocons You can't be serious --- I intensely dislike them. They are people who have taken advantage of the passivity and relatively good-naturedness of democracy to further their own agenda and at the expense of a great many other people. In fact, it is a point that I believe will be discussed at great length in time to come how a relatively small clique of determined opportunists usurped the administration of the most powerful nation in the world and used it for their own ends. > I don't think they care much about the opinions of those who opposed them in the first place. They don't give a damn because they have the power and they are in charge. In fact, the Nietske-like philosophy which they espouse holds weakness in contempt. Interestingly, now that Colin Powell is undergoing surgery for prostate cancer, one of the main countervailing forces in the US administration has now been removed. In fact, I am sure, with their twisted religious fervor, they will regard it as an act of God that Powell was afflicted with a potentially lethal illness.