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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (32559)	3/1/2004 11:45:07 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793624

Did Congress give Bush a hard time? Did the UN object? The UN predicted humanitarian catastrophes and mass starvation as it usually does. The Democrats did some whining about the "brutal Afghan winter", etc, but mostly acquiesced as I said before. However, that is a long, long way from your contention that NOBODY objected. The entire left-wing of the Democrats, the "progressive" wing, together with the European elites, did object, because the movement has become pacifistic. You propose a war to them, they say "NO! Don't you know that war is BAD?" and begin anti-war marches with predictions of battlefield catastrophe, millions of refugees, chaos! starvation!, etc. etc. It no longer matters the reason, the response is automatic, doubly so if the country proposing the war is America, The Author of All Evil in the World to this crowd. (If China starts a war, they don't care too much). So Chomsky went around claiming that America was implementing "a silent genocide of 3 or 4 millions". Not planning one, mind you, but implementing. And Chomsky was playing to packed houses. You would know this if you bothered to go through the links that wstera_02 took the time to collect for you. But you don't really want to know it, do you?