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To: KLP who wrote (171790)	10/3/2005 8:58:03 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No, we are not even. You are asserting a positive, and for that you need proof. I'm suggesting that nothing much existed there, for that I don't need proof- because the absence of something really doesn't need to be proved, and asserting that you lack facts is not personal. There IS evidence that I won't cheer Saddam on- I've TOLD you it offends me deeply. What you've done is made a creepy personal remark, with no evidence, and made it somehow equivalent to a factual argument about the lack of evidence for a position you espouse. I could say "I certainly hope you won't cheer on the killing of Iraqi babies (but I'm pretty sure you will)", or "I certainly hope you don't cheer on the torture of Iraqis (but I'm sure you approve that)"- now THOSE would be statements equivalent to yours, but I wouldn't make them, because they are stupid, and I have no reason to think you would cheer on those things, just as you have no reason to think I would cheer on Saddam, except for your prejudice against the "anti-war anti-Bush". Most people who are anti-war and anti-Bush don't "cheer on Saddam". Most of the people who don't like this war are against it because it weakens America; they are not against it because they love Saddam, or want to cheer him on. It's so sad you are convinced of your rather odd point of view, because I have met no one, not one person, who would cheer Saddam on. Your rhetoric, though, is as bigoted as anything you imagine of the left- when you make up the fact that the anti-war folks would cheer Saddam. You might want to tone down your own bile, before you set out to tilt at the windmills of your imaginary foes.