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   From: gofig@mac.com   
      
   In article , Jenn   
    wrote:   
      
   > In article <110120041250054857%gofig@mac.com>, Go Fig    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > > In article , devil   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:08:25 +0000, MTV wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > > None wrote:   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Former Treasury Secretary who got canned, supposedly for not supporting   
   > > > > the   
   > > > > tax cut or being a bush team player. "Tell all" book just out. Use a   
   > > > > few   
   > > > > "grains of salt."    
   > > >   
   > > > Sure.   
   > > >   
   > > > OTOH, it has been well-known that the story is true.  They are on record   
   > > > from even before the election that they wanted to go after Saddam.   
   > >   
   > > The U.S. Congress is on record, by vote, for regime change in Iraq   
   > > since 1998, that was also the position of all the U.S. Presidents since   
   > > then.   
   > >   
   >   
   > I love the number of nimrods who think that attacking another country   
   > pre-emptively is just business as usual.  Why if this is our 'right'   
   > isn't it the right of any other country e.g. China vis a vis Taiwan --   
   > India vis a vis Pakistan or vice versa etc etc and why isn't the right   
   > of any of the countries whose governments we have intruded on against us?   
   >   
   > aggressive war -- rather than defensive war -- has not been our   
   > tradition in the past century and this emphasis on preventing war rather   
   > than pre-emptive war kept us alive through the cold war.  It is a   
   > dangerous foolish game that these cowardly chickenhawks are playing with   
   > our country.  And it sets dangerous precedents as well as entirely   
   > destroying our moral authority to try to prevent war elsewhere.   
      
      
   If on the end of your block, there was a house that was dealing drugs   
   and you went on record condemning this... would your moral authority be   
   undermined because you don't want drug dealers on your block ?   
      
   Is this block and neighborhood in jeopardy because of the drug dealer ?   
      
   If you sat back and did nothing or even just condemned it, would the   
   problem just go away on its own ?   
      
   If you stood out there with a video camera recording everyone that went   
   into that drug house, would your moral authority be undermined ?   
      
   jay   
   Sun Jan 11, 2004   
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