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Saw Farehnheit 9/11 tonight. It was a great movie, very powerful. I feel we have a huge debt to the young men and women who serve in our armed forces. We need to make a down payment on that debt by throwing out the liar and self serving oil man who sent them there. One thing that sickened me most was the glee that the war profiteers expressed over the prospects of making huge profits in Iraq. War profiteers ought to be imprisoned. Wasn't profiteering illegal in WW2? Now, it is patriotic. If anything, Moore did not hit hard enough. I felt he missed out on two important issues. In one section of the movie, they had news announcers saying the number of dead soldiers in Irag "250 dead, 300 dead 3235 dead, 4000 ded etc... 800 + dead" I expected the next scene would be Wolfawitz testifying to the 911 commision that he really didn't know how many had died, and guessed "about 500". Over 700 had died by that time, and all you had to do to know that was to pay attention to the nightly news. Moore didn't show Wolfie ignorantly guessing at the number of dead. The other thing he missed was the connection of Chalabi as an agent of Iran. Chalabi, the hero of democracy, The companion of Laua Bush at the State of the Union speach, the spy who sold us out to Iran, doesn't show up in the movie. SMOKING PART After the movie, my family went to Red Lobster and had dinner. An expensive place to eat, but it is the last time I go there. They have a smoking section there, and while the air was tolerable in the non-smoking section, i have resolved to be eve firmer in my future resolve to stay out of an establishment that allows smoking. I asked the waitress if she would get me a card so I could write a note to the management. She looked worried, until my wife jumped in to tell her that we were only planning to comlain about the smoky air. She enthusiastically got us a card, and even suggested that we mention how much we had spent at dinner that night. She told us that she gets sinus infections, and her doctor told her that she needed to stay out of smoky environments. She was in her thirties, and had two kids. I told her I understood that she can't just quit her job, because there aren't that many places to work where the air is clean. So, I dedicate this email to the mother of two from Red Lobster, and promise her that I will do what I can to put pressure on the businesses that force her to breathe the smoke and aggravate her illnesses. -- Bob Treumann, Saint Paul Please Note: Replies to this email address all go to the trash except where the subject line contains a recognized mailing list identifier, such as [TCMETRO],[StPaul], MP-N ... _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
