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To: Ilaine who wrote (46312)	5/23/2004 1:19:46 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793990

Hello CB, your point is well taken. I was thinking of the folk who filled up the mass graves and those who now bomb Iraqis because they want to continue in that direction. I thought when I wrote that I should fix it but but the thought went past - too tired. Shouldn't write that sort of thing when I'm in that shape. Prisoners should be treated with correct procedures always. The adversaries in Iraq are not morally powerful. They are aspiring proto-feudal tyrants, and for that, deserve killing. They have an abysmally evil record. There is no room for them in the modern world. Nonetheless, you do see the problem, I hope. There is no room in the modern world for the adversaries I had in mind just as there was none for the defeated ones of WW2. They had to change, accept defeat, or die. Those are the only choices the present enemies offer us modern people. They say it themselves and think it perfectly right in demonstrating this to murder 3000 New Yorkers, an uncountable number of Iraqis, and thousands of unknown victims elsewhere. What it amounts to is this: Choose their way of life as exemplified by the talibanization of Afghanistan, the police states of Iraq or Iran, or be punished. enslaved or murdered. They will not compromise or treat. Whether you live here or in Iraq, this is no choice at all. The author of the piece is saying that because, right now, these evil people are materially weaker than you, they are going to defeat you because you are weak minded: No matter how evil and despicable he might be, you always side with the weaker - the underdog - and thus, in the end the last US soldiers will "leave Iraq clinging to to the skids of the helicopters." If this turns out true, then you won't necessarily be defeated, but after your enemies roll a nuke up 5th Ave we are going to see far more violence done by you than could ever be contemplated in the Iraq venture.