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To: Brumar89 who wrote (171659)	10/1/2005 1:35:05 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Why don't you advocate giving Robertson up to the Venezuelans? He's a rich and powerful thug with a media bully pulpit advocating the murder of a democratically elected head of state. That would be a CURRENT head of state. Where is your outrage about that? So you believe Venezuela should attack the US of A over Robertson's attempt to get Chavez killed? Do you?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (171659)	10/1/2005 3:51:15 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bush I also signed off on military strikes in Gulf War I with the specific intent of killing Saddam Hussein. From a purely objective, rational point of view, why shouldn't Saddam have tired to kill Bush Sr? Should it devolve into a childish "he hit me first!" kind of affair? Should Bush II have, as our President, a motive of "He tried to kill my dad." for invading a soverign country? Are we a nation led by schoolyard bullies? We were in the covert assasination biz in the Cold War, and after Kennedy we decided to get out of it. Reagan got back in, Clinto got out again. And so it goes. The fact is, OUR leaders are a lot more vulnerable than some of the ones we'd like to assasinate. So, it's a losing game for us to play.