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To: Neeka who wrote (22202)	12/30/2003 9:18:50 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793640

MM, What i really dont understand is how the liberals have abandoned the disadvantaged when there is a liberation in play by the bush admin. This human rights stuff was always in their baliwick i thought, but the hatred of bush and the failure to understand the enemy puts them into the category i call Robert Taft/Charly Lindberg democrats. They mirror the republicans who failed to see the nazi menace and fought fdr tooth and nail. It is truly amazing to have to lecture liberals on something that is core to their creed or at least i thought it was. It seems some of them had a blind spot for communism and now some have a blind spot for islamic religous fanaticism which makes them think bush is more dangerous than bin laden and jerry falwell more dangerous than saddam. Mike

To: Neeka who wrote (22202)	12/31/2003 12:49:07 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 793640

Everyone is happy for the Iraqis. But there's a bit of confusion there. Millions more people are crushed and killed in other parts of the world than were in Iraq. Few in this country and no one in the rest of the world believes Bush went to war for humanitarian reasons. And it is becoming clear any sort of immediate threat to US security was cobbled from forged documents and deliberately misinterpreted intel. These reasons are among those invented after the fact. What makes it more disgusting is the pornographic descriptions of suffering served up whenever an emotional result is needed, rather than the facts of regimes in Africa, Asia and eastern Europe, where millions more people could be saved with American help. Notice no accountability is being offered by these emotional staged presentations at mass graves. Do the folks at DOD make accurate reports and estimates of numbers killed, who they were, how they were dispatched? Absolutely. Do they release any numbers? Absolutely nothing official. This would allow the possibility of accountability. These decisions to release only emotional claims, and never substantive official estimates are purely civilian and are for purely political reasons, not military. It is certain many thousands were killed. How, when and who remains among the long list of unaccountable facts.