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To: Bilow who wrote (127281)	3/23/2004 10:26:52 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'd be very interested to hear the results of your application of the correct standards, in practical terms, such as the sort one has to use when choosing for whom to vote, or when critiquing speciously offered statistics, or when establishing what exactly were, in fact -- and were not -- the justifications that led to an invasion. A lot of this stuff is easily found in the daily paper, and the point hasn't today been about holding the US to standards, but about holding a couple of SI posters to standards, as opposed to excusing or ignoring whatever they say. Thank you for your contribution! (I suppose I should acknowledge that I don't equate the United States of America with Dubya.)

To: Bilow who wrote (127281)	3/24/2004 12:00:02 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<Everybody says this, it's part of the "I'm a reasonable person" BS, but most of them, when you actually look at what they say, either hold the US to impossibly high standards, or excuse or ignore everything imaginable.>>> Now about those impossibly high standards for the US..... Your expectation seems to be that the US should deactivate terrorists living in foreign countries without offending any of their citizens or killing anyone. ( I'm talking about terrorists who are planning to attack the US and have promised to do so.) For which you have presented no plan. However, perhaps I have misread your position, which may be that nothing should be done to prevent the coming attacks. In which case your words "ignore everything imaginable" would apply. I'm not buying that one, and neither is Kerry. Sig