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To: ManyMoose who wrote (131367)	5/5/2004 8:22:14 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Dave, <Americans who are overly concerned about the bad guys in Guantanamo are just Bush haters, like you. Although from the way you spell "program" obviously you aren't an American so it really doesn't matter what you think about the President.> That's hilarious. The Iraqis who are killing Americans aren't Americans either and so it doesn't matter what they think about the President, I presume, but there are a lot of dead Americans as a result of what Iraqis think of the President. I wonder whether it matters to the dead people's families what Iraqis think of the President. Osama isn't American either, but it seemed to matter in quite a big way what he thought of the Presidents [he obviously didn't like them or their middle-east policies]. On a smaller scale, millions of people around the world have opinions about the USA President and have changed their buying as a result, but I suppose that doesn't matter to you either [though people depending on inbound tourism must have noticed the drop in revenue]. How much is air travel to the USA down since 911 [and don't kid yourself that people are just scared of hijackers - almost nobody is]? I think it's down about 25% [Google could tell me]. It's funny too that you think that being overly concerned about prisoners' human rights is proof of Bush-hating. It might simply be that people think humanitarian ethics is something which should apply to people other than Americans. Actually, from what I've seen, I think George the Junior isn't too bad, though I disagree with his handling of Iraq and the UN. Disagreeing is quite different from hating. <Ignorant people hate America because we're POWERFUL as a result of our FREEDOM.> Sure Dave. That's right. Just keep telling yourself that. We are seeing just how powerful in Iraq. Not powerful enough by the look of it. Japan is quite powerful and seems to me even more free than the USA [for example, stem cell research isn't banned, I think], but ignorant people don't seem to hate Japan. If the USA had no military outside USA borders, I don't think you'd see hate of the USA. A USA minding its own business and being powerful, rich and free would be fine with other people. Mqurice