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To: dumbmoney who wrote (137373)	6/22/2004 7:13:28 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

>>>Indeed, the U.S. will look ridiculous when, as will happen someday, it condemns another country's "preventive war". Let's just hope that nobody tries to "prevent" a war with the U.S. by attacking the U.S. (See how stupid that sounds? Preventive war is a pretty stupid idea. The only thing it prevents is peace). >> You speak as though one war is equivalent to another war, where each war is very different. We were at war with Saddam and his army and they have been defeated. Now we are at war with terrorists, in a war that bears no resemblance to previous wars. That has to be preventative war, unless we and other nations decide to accept the consequencies of doing nothing. And both Eastern and Western Nations are involved in the same operation. Russia, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel all under attack . And we are not at war with Iraq but supporting the new government. What we have today is a virtual coalition of nearly every progressive country in defence of its assets. And instead of dividing people it should ultimately bring them together. We help Spain defend their trains and they help us defend Chicago by sharing intelligence. The same applies to SA and France and S. Korea and Russia. It is an attempt to save lives and industries, and if we lose to the terrorists we can forget about a vision of a better world. Sig