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To: jlallen who wrote (138233)	6/28/2004 5:09:16 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The reason you cannot see where I am coming from lies in the implications in your sentence "you would prefer to equate US actions in liberating a nation from a repressive police state to those of murdering thugs". Firstly, it is naive to assume US goal was to liberate a nation from Saddam. Had that been the goal, there were less costly means of toppling the regime. But of course what we wanted was not just to remove Saddam, but to also install a friendly (to us not necessarily to Iraqis) regime, bring "democracy" to the region, project power into Iran and Syria, have Halliburton get its contracts, have sweetheart access to the second largest oil reserves in the world, etc, etc. In other words, we use force to bring about political change and to project power. And if some innocent civilians have to be killed along the way, that is a regrettable but fully understandable and justifiable event. Is this not the case? Well, guess what? This is almost identical mentality of every terrorist group. I am sure they would rather be targeting Bush and Rumsfeld instead of a recruitment center. But since they can't, they use the least costly means of bringing about political change and project power and if some innocent civilians have to be killed along the way, that is a regrettable but fully understandable and justifiable event. Is this also not the case? ST