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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (4149)	2/9/2006 7:05:03 PM
From: Crabbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218544

I won't argue the case either way, The US has a record that goes both ways, We were rather effective at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, toss in the Dresden firebombing and I think we eliminated a rather large group of people. (all must be considered terrorist acts by today's definitions, attacks on civilian populations), We killed a a few of each other in our civil war as well. Hitler did a better job, Hirohito did a tidy job in China and Korea, Pol Pot was effective in Cambodia, Stalin is probably the overall champion though. Killing people has been a fad for most of the 20th century and I doubt it will cease in the 21st. As long as the world allows tyrants to rule countries, it will continue. Unfortunately, it requires killing a lot of people to get rid of tyrants. r

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (4149)	2/9/2006 9:59:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218544

The COW [coalition of willing] should hold a referendum and pull out of any regions with more than 30% wanting them to leave. That would test the locals and see what they really want. I think it would be like Quebec. Independence seems like a great idea until poverty, violence and lack of opportunity seems likely to be an outcome. Quebec has chosen to stay Canadian. Given their minority status, the Sunnis should probably be more enthusiastic about the USA being there than the Shites, who have Iranian backing. If the Iranians get too insistent about their nuclear bombs, the USA might release Saddam, [the trial isn't doing very well and he was the president with all powers, same as King George II claims], organize another election to see if he is voted in, offer him support, including all mod cons, to check out the Iranian nuclear reactor. Fix up a couple of palaces for him and agree to buy all his oil. Mqurice