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To: Chas. who wrote (3692)	2/4/2004 5:52:02 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

"You are not a soldier in any war." "You are a terrorist." Thanks for that link. I'm surprised this judge attacked Bush so harshly! Tom

To: Chas. who wrote (3692)	2/4/2004 7:41:55 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Has that been verified? Reads like many of the email hoaxes that have been floating around for years.

To: Chas. who wrote (3692)	2/5/2004 6:43:24 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

Why do they hate us? February 5, 2004 "We have time, we can wait. We got rid of the Crusaders. We got rid of the Turks. We'll get rid of the Jews." "Excuse me, but you've got your history wrong. The Turks got rid of the Crusaders. The British got rid of the Turks. The Jews got rid of the British. I wonder who is coming here next?" That interchange took place between 87-year-old historian Bernard Lewis and his Jordanian host during a recent visit to Amman. ("A Historian's Take on Islam," by Peter Waldman, Wall Street Journal, A1, 2-3-04). And it provides as good of an explanation of "why they hate us" as any I've heard or read. No, I'm not talking about why the Muslims, the Europeans (increasingly the same thing), or the North Koreans hate us. Nor am I talking about the BBC and the rest of their "hate the West" media pals. I'm not even worried over that ever-present cloud of "world opinion" that seems to inhabit the diplomatic ether. No, it's the Democrats I'm concerned about. Democratic hatred of Bush is really thinly disguised fear. Unconsciously, Democrats have detected a seismic shift in United States policy since 9-11. That's the day America stopped wringing its hands over what the rest of the world thinks about our power and money. It's the day we valued our own survival enough to launch a preemptive strike against a murderous dictator bent on funding and equipping terrorist "freedom fighters" (as some of the media loves to call them). In a word, its the day we stopped being cowards and demonstrated to the world that what we have is worth fighting for. On 9-11, the world changed forever. Democrats didn't so much see the change as they felt it. They understood from America's response that something important had happened, yet they didn't know what it was – a combination which further contributed to their anxiety. The source of their anxiety turns out to be 87-year-old Bernard Lewis, author of over 20 books on Islam and the Middle East, and now behind-the-scenes presidential adviser. The Journal article calls it the Lewis Doctrine. "Though never debated in Congress or sanctified by presidential decree, Mr. Lewis's diagnosis of the Muslim world's malaise, and his call for a U.S. military invasion to seed democracy in the Mideast, have helped define the boldest shift in U.S. foreign policy in 50 years." Baby Boomers grew up underneath the umbrella of Mutual Assured Destruction. In school we used to practice civil-defense drills by crawling underneath our desks. (Only my 7th-grade biology teacher had the courage to suggest we should climb up on top of the building and watch the explosion, because we'd "never see anything like it again.") MAD grew out of the doctrine of "containment" and postulated a rational enemy, which exactly is what the Soviet Union proved to be. But as the Journal article explains, "The Lewis Doctrine posits no such rational foe. It envisions not a clash of interests or even ideology, but of cultures." Democrats were comfortable with the concept of containment, and they were willing to fund it militarily. But terrorism as defined by the Lewis Doctrine is a battle that Democrats won't fight. The reason is simple. Terrorism has grown out of the failed cultures of the Muslim world, and their greed and envy of the (once) Christian West. Terrorists are neither containable nor rational. Wars are fought only by people and leaders who believe that what they have is worth fighting for, and if need be dying for. As the Democrats embrace of political correctness, multiculturalism and perversion shows, their is little today the party or its leaders are willing to fall by their swords to defend. For all the Democrats' talk of being progressive, they are stuck in the past regarding the most serious threat the world has faced since Hitler. Anyone who straps explosives around his or her chest to kill a handful of Jews or Americans is neither rationale or deterrable. The world has changed. Democrats know it. But they can't face it. worldnetdaily.com