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To: mistermj who wrote (174076)	11/3/2005 2:20:16 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

There are many problems with that story, but none more glaring than the silly distortion of Lars von Triers' work. I'd be willing to bet the author of that piece has never seen any of Von Triers' many movies. That's the whole problem in a nutshell- people blasting out about their phobias, as if their phobias were fact.

To: mistermj who wrote (174076)	11/3/2005 2:28:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 281500

CHEERING TERROR New York Post By RALPH PETERS This guy (Ralph Peters, Lt Col., ret., loves General Shinseki.) So how come it is not treason to discard what Shinseki had to say, that we needed several hundred thousand troops to successfully complete this mission and Shinseki was then put on the shelf and forced to retire? <<<I think General Shinseki has a legitimate vision, and it is based upon the world reality. Not the war the army wants to fight, but the conflicts and wars with which we are actually faced. So you can't write the doctrine first and design tables or organization equipment and predict accurately we need this, this, and this. ..... Shinseki has the great misfortune of being a man of great integrity in a town that doesn't value it very much. I don't know General Shinseki personally, but I'm always impressed when he goes to the Hill and tells the truth, which breaks a long-standing Army tradition of obfuscating, if not lying outright. My sense is that General Shinseki is a soldier we would all like to be--a genuine selfless man. It's amazing that he ever got four stars........ And General Shinseki has had the courage, in the face of tremendous internal and external opposition from multiple sides to say, "This is right. This is what we need to do. Let's get moving." .....