--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 7/18/2003 11:55:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > It is unpatriotic to falsely attack the rationale for
> > the war when it is obvious to anyone who looks at the
> > facts that the Administration was telling the truth.
> > Period
>
> But clearly not every one agrees with this assessment. I have looked at
> some of the facts and I disagree. Tom Friedman has looked at the facts and
> he disagrees (not with the war but the administrations rationalization for
> the war). So what is obvious to you is not obvious to others. We are not
> stupid. Some of us have less partisan attitudes than you do about this
> issue (I may not be one of them; I hate Bush and his people.
nd becouse of that you are mixing facts as if they were related when they are
not.
>They are
> people with enormous privledge who view their privledge and proof of their
> moral superioty instead of luck and influence.
Seems plosible enough.
>They are willing to sell the
> interests of the people they are supposed to represent secure in the
> knowledge that when they leave government "service" they can personally
> reap the rewards of their actions.
Also might be true.
>It is an old boys club writ on a global
> scale.
No backing for this. just becouse the above is true (if it is) does not mean
that they are not doing what is right when it comes to forign policy. Think
of it this way, just becouse someone is greedy doesn't mean that they would
kill someone for money. You seem to want others to believe, just becouse
someone is priviliged you think that all their actions are directly related
to maintaining that privilige and yet you can not show a direct link, just an
assumption. It's like you have a rule that says "all rich people are evil".
That seems just as bad as raceism to me, and it sound so rediculous that it
makes what might be an otherwise convincing political stance seem wrong.
> Their moral values have begun to stifle research in this county.
So focus on that.
> Stem cell scientists are leaving to go where they can do their work
> unfettered by moralistic crap.
See show cause and effect, how the policy is hurting us without tying it to
an area almost evryne would agree is helping us.
>They are infringing on personal liberty in
> ways that are both unnecessary and dangerous. They are wrecking our
> economy.
you need to show how, but this sounds like the right kind of angle.
>Even if you accept the war you must accept that it will cost a
> huge amount of money.
See there you go again. the American people are willing to pay. They are
willing to fight this war because they believe it to be just and the right
thing to do.
If you get on board with the war, and mean it, all of your other arguments
start to sound reasonable and important. take a lesson from 92.
>And yet we have a huge tax cut. This is unbelievably
> irresponsible.
you have to show how out -expenses- make a tax cut unresponsible. It's a hard
sell though. trickle down seems to work, poular opiioin is for the war, and
for tax cuts.
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