----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: Re: Helen Thomas vs. Ari Fleischer
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> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, joanna bujes wrote:
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> > The pundits may step in and teach them how to do it. Saw an op-ed in the
> > Washington Post(?) a couple of days ago. Headline "USA only attacks weak
> > countries" or something like that. Read further...it explained that
> > "deterrence works" hence we must be diplomatic with NK cause they can cause
> > harm to SK or Japan. On the other hand, we should bomb the shit out of Iraq
> > so that in the future, they won't become another NK. Note that this
> > argument concludes that we should bomb precisely because Iraq doesn't have
> > WMD now.
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> > It's as sleazy and nuts as it gets...
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> > Joanna
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> So let me see if I understand the logic of this. If I'm a leader of
> a relatively small nation, and I want to avoid a military assault by
> U. S. forces, I should--quickly develop a vast arsenal of weapons of
> mass destruction? This is the basic message that's being sent by the
> U. S. reaction to NK and Iraq, right?
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> Does anybody in the Bush administration have a functioning brain cell?
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> Miles
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a good question. what do you think they used to take over the USA? and keep themselves in power? it's not their brains; it's their ethics that doesn't function.
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