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To: GST who wrote (153840)	12/10/2004 5:18:49 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<We are not an evil nation.> I am sorry to have to challenge that viewpoint -- we have killed countless tens of thousands of innnocent people without justification, and we have turned a country that was in bad shape into a lawless wasteland. We must be responsible for the consequences of our actions -- what we did to Iraq was indeed "evil". I'd still say it is closer to Mark Twain's "good people in the worst sense of the word" rather than intentionally evil. Perhaps I'm a pessimist, but I see the world much more as a Confederation of Dunces, then a Conspiracy of Geniuses. I agrees that responsibility for actions is needed. How do you have responsibility for inaction? Oddly enough GWB will likely be guilty of both irresponsible action in Iraq and irresponsible inaction on environmental issues such as global warming. In the first case data was hyped to induce national action, in the second, data is denigrated to induce national complacency.