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To: TigerPaw who wrote (10558)	5/12/2004 5:45:50 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Not psychic, just human and logical. I know that's tough for you. The question was defined quite simply. If you could save millions, an oppressed minority, by deposing a tyrant, would you use your power to do that? Pretty simple - "yes" or "no". I'm not asking anyone to think about whether or not they have the power or whether or not it is known that the millions will be decimated. This is not so hypothetical. The knowledge of acts of mass extermination have been known by the free world from Hitler to Cambodia, from Rwanda to Liberia. We had the power to stop much of that, but failed to do so. Isolationists have always been around. I can understand the argument. "Me first. Fortress America, etc." It's not something I would argue. To me, if we have the power, use it for good, not just for regime change or on less than competent intelligence. I'm not ruling out negotiation, inspections, but when all else fails, do you use that power? My own answers involve a lot more thinking than the answers to the questions I posed. "If you had the power to save millions, an oppressed minority, marked for extinction, would you use that power?" Pretty simple. And it's ok, you don't have to answer. I'm sure you have some anti-Bush broad brush aphorism to quote.