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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (72806)	9/23/2004 10:18:30 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793799

>>Rebuilding Iraq and saving Iraqi children are not reasons Americans were told why we went to war with Iraq. This is simply untrue. There were many reasons for the war. WMD was advanced as the primary justification for pre-emptive strike due to long standing international precedent. But the Bush administration repeated over, and over, and over again that sanctions were NOT working. I recall clearly Bush, Powell, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice talking about Saddam starving his own people, killing his own people, violating no fly zones, etc. Now that I've reminded you, don't you remember? Or did you not listen to or read the speeches? Are you telling me you only paid attention to sound bites in the news? Never read, for example, the Pollock book? >>But, you all think the administration think what you are thinking. Oh, good heavens, no. I think that the issues in Iraq and Iran, even terrorism, are a tiny fraction of what the US government deals with on a day to day basis. Last week, I spent the entire week taking an introductory class to federal aquisition. Came home with a basic textbook and my very own copy of the Code of Federal Regulations. It's two inches thick and I think they used 9 or 10 point type on toilet paper, I can barely read it. The US government is full of people who spend their entire lives dealing with what's in one paragraph of that book, or maybe a sentence, and for some, a complete page. Don't know if you've ever seen the entire Code of Federal Regulations, I would estimate that it takes up 15 to 20 feet of shelf space, and so does the Federal Code, which at least is bigger type on heavier paper. There are 50 states, three hundred million Americans, over 200 countries, about 7 billion people, and somehow the US government is supposed to be making life better for all of them, at every level. And if any one person has a problem, it's Bush's fault. He's responsible for hurricanes, he's responsible for mutant frogs, he's responsible for GMO corn pollen getting loose, he's responsible for dust blowing across the ocean. If Cat Stevens is sent back to London, blame Bush. If a lady is forced to taste her own breast milk by an airport security guard, blame Bush. If you can't afford to get your prescriptions filled, blame Bush. If there is no cure for your disease, blame Bush. About the only thing they don't blame on Bush is what occurs outside the gravitational force of the earth, but if we get hit by a largish asteroid, that will be his fault, too. No, I have a better sense of humor and a better sense of the absurdity of the situation than to put my faith in any one person. It's a miracle the system works as well as it does.