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To: neolib who wrote (36515)	4/19/2007 11:32:00 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541843

When you look at absolute numbers of bodies, there is no real public policy priority in Washington; we accept tens of thousands of deaths every year from some controllable causes, but react in horror at others with smaller totals. The only way the WOT could be sold was to take the painful carnage of 9/11 and spin it into an existential threat which could never really come true, but that doesn't matter. Repeating "they want to destroy us all" is sufficient to scare 51% of the people into supporting whatever Big Daddy Executive says is necessary. If we wanted to save 30,000 lives a year we could, but it wouldn't be thru the WOT. That's a false-flag "1% Possible Threat" doctrine masquerading as "our only choice".