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>>> tnan with Iraq. The US actually does posea real and well-documented
>>> danger to every nation in the world. In fact, it has recently announced
>>> that it will launch a unilateral preemptive attack on anyone
>>> whom it feels might someday be adanger to its supremacy.
>>> However, this seems to be OK with you.
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>> That is simply not true.
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> The "recent announcement" is of course true. What W means to dispute
> is that the US poses a threat to anyone we might like.
> "Legitimate" nations--I like that, makes me think of King Lear
> ("Edmund the bastard will top the 'legitimate'"!)--have nothing to
> worry about. Sort of like the argument that incursions on civil
> liberties don't matter because "innocent" people have nothing to
> fear.
Justin, excellent, you're on a roll!
And Chavez was "legitimate" on April 10th, "illegitimate" (for the US gov, the NYTimes & some others) on the day - whichever it was- he appeared to have been successfully deposed by the CIA, and "legitimate" again on the day after he returned.
john mage