At 12:15 PM 3/10/2003 -0800 Deborah Harrell wrote:
>> What do you choose?
>
>As I have pointed out before, I haven't seen enough
>info to agree that Iraq is a direct threat to the US
>which would justify our 'going alone' (with a few
>others);
In 1998, the UN said that Hussein had vast quantities of anthrax.
Today, Hussein says that he destroyed all the anthrax without telling
anyone, and then he destroyed all the evidence that he had the anthrax
destroyed.
Do you agree that the only logical conclusion from Hussein's above
statements is that Hussein still has vast quantities of anthrax?
If you so agree, are you aware of the real effects that anthrax attacks
have already had in this country? A few small envelopes of anthrax
succeeding in killing several Americans, and hospitalizing many others.
It shut down the US Congress. It closed down the largest Post Office in
Washington, DC, and it took us a year and a half to decontaminate it. To
this day, mail takes several weeks to reach all government offices,
including my office, in downtown DC, as all of it is irradiated before it
reaches my desk.
Does this not constitute a threat?
>SH is clearly a threat to his own people, his
>neighbors, and has failed to comply with UN
>resolutions, which justifies UN-sanctioned military
>action against him. If the international community
>wants US troops to stay as 'massive thumb-screws,'
>they should contribute money to help pay for that.
But what if the international community sends the US's "massive
thumb-screws" to the Persian Gulf, as it did when it unanimously passed
Resolution 1441, but then refuses to contribute money to help pay for that?
Indeed, what if the international community then decides to not uphold
the thumb-screws they authorized, and indeed, force the US to bear the
enormous costs, both direct and indirect, of keeping the "thumb-screws" in
place over the summer?
>Will you allow that there are other anti-war folks out
>there who are as sincere in their beliefs as the Pope?
>(I'm not a pacifist, but I agree that opposing views
>are useful to promote clarity and dialogue.)
Yes - there definitely are some. They usually, however, are not the ones
marching in the streets and on the pundit shows.
JDG
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