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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (125249)	2/28/2004 10:13:57 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, they are being targeted as "collaborators", and that is the correct word to use in this context. I put it in quotation marks because it is a term that people making the attacks would use as the justification for the attacks. As for foreigners, there is no doubt that foreigners play some role, but out of 5,000 attacks "after the end of major hostilities" (now there is some deep wishful thinking for you), the vast majority of these attacks appear to be Iraqis targeting Americans and American "collaborators". These statements are true and reasonable. None of them makes me anything other than a thoughtful and observant person. Your ideological rants and feeble attempts to be insulting are another matter.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (125249)	2/28/2004 7:26:43 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Collaborators?.. My god!! You sound like you're a dyed in the wool Baathist when you talk like that... > You insist that those who don't support you, are terrorist sympathizers. If you insist that those are the only two choices, then you drive everyone but your core constituency into the Opposition. Your core constituency is about 150M Americans (half the population), 5 million Israeli Jews, large minorities in the AngloSphere, and small minorities in all other nations. Add it up, it comes to around 200M. Which is only about 200M/6B = 3% of the planet's population. Maybe a bit more. You define "patriotism", not as "love of country" but "hatred of all other countries", and more exactly as "enthusiastic support for every proposal for armed Americans to solve problems by killing non-Americans."