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To: mcg404 who wrote (21317)	7/5/2004 10:32:41 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80904

John > You give americans too much credit for rational analysis So, no-one can accuse me of being "anti-American"! I'm satisfied, in my own mind, why the Iraqi invasion came about and that opinion doesn't change from week-to-week. In fact, it hasn't changed at all. Therefore, I just find it strange that others can have opinions which vary from moment to moment, apparently depending on a speech or an incident or a poll or whatever. Accordingly, because the quoted opinion keeps changing, and for nonsense reasons, the American "analysis" isn't rational at all -- it's irrational!

To: mcg404 who wrote (21317)	7/6/2004 4:51:05 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 80904

Re: You give americans too much credit.... Wrong... here's the correct phrasing: You give americans too much credit for rational analysis. (g) But i agree with you in a way. I think this is the process: the ideological reason (ie Israel's hegemony) is always left unspoken, so we can maintain the illusion we are nothing more than greedy colonialists and oilmen. The rational explanations are presented as the true, if undeclared, justification: maintain safe oil supplies, bring democracy to the oppressed iraqi people, bring civilization to a backward country (ie, the american consumer lifestyle), etc. The potential of the hoped-for result of cheap democracy ended many months ago but since that was always the bogus reason, we had no reason to do anything but dig in our heels, stay the course, not back away from a fight, etc, etc.[...] Note: Message 19988883