[Vision2020] 10-26-04 LA Times OP/ED: Worse Than the Usual Bad

[Tom Hansen]

I agree with you 1,000,000,000, . . . %, Melynda.

I se ABSOLUTELY nothing beneficial in keeping President Bush The Appointed
in office.

ABSOLUTELY no plan for winning the peace, simply more of the same.  More
filled body bags.  More flag-draped coffins.  Remember when a Seattle
newspaper published a photo of flag-draped coffins?  Expect more of the
same.

Tom

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 
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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Melynda Huskey
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:19 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] 10-26-04 LA Times OP/ED: Worse Than the Usual Bad

Dan writes:

>well, we shouldn't have to worry about them using said explosives to
>detonate nuclear weapons, because there aren't any there . . .
>
>right?


Heck, yeah!  And they aren't at all portable, those explosives, so they 
surely wouldn't be of any use to any near-by nation developing nuclear 
weapons--like, say, Pakistan.  And there aren't any nuclear materials 
unaccounted for in the former Soviet Union, either, or other worrisome bad 
neighbors on the planet who might pay top riyal/ruble/NK won/dollar for 
explosives like those.

It must be quite a dilemma, really, for the Iraqis.  Sell for lots of money 
to finance insurgent/guerilla projects on a larger scale or just convert 
them to IEDs and use them right at home . . .

But there's really nothing funny about it.  These explosives will be used, 
one way or another, against U.S. troops.  More innocent people--both Iraqi 
and U.S. citizens--will die as a consequence of this failure.

Call me a flip-flopper if you will:  I could not have opposed this war any 
more strongly, and I still believe it to be a morally and intellectually 
bankrupt enterprise.  But for God's sake, and I'm most emphatically not 
swearing here, if we're going to have a war, we've got to prosecute it 
effectively, thoroughly, and with a plan.  It's too late to get out--we're 
committed.  So we'd better start taking our responsibilities as an invading 
force and occupying conqueror a little more seriously.

Melynda Huskey


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