well trish, tell the 3000 or so new yorker families that the war is not
fought here. that is the whole point, if i knew that saddam had no chance in
the world of having a dirty bomb to a u.s. city. or had no chance of
poisoning a towns water supply and killing more thousands of americans here.
maybe you and amber, maybe my family here in atlanta. i would not give a fat
rats arse what all the arabs did to each other. but, as in my former post. i
remember seeing the films of what saddam is capable of doing.
  yes, i have alluded to the fact that nothing is predictable about war.
there are always surprises. i hope no one decides lightly to go to a second
front. we are not finshed in afganastand yet. i hope that any decision that
is made ismade with the interest of our people at heart, not ecconomics. i'd
rather go to bread and water than have one person killed needlessly. but, if
the choice is fight there or fight here, i'd just soon it be there.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trisha Cummings
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 8/30/2002 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Can't stand it anymore....

Hi Ken,

           Well, this is a complex issue. There is no easy answer. My
concerns are - by acting on our own - we are setting ourselves above the
laws we have helped create to insure against unlawful acts of
aggression.
Bush is drawing attention away from the economy by show casing "the Bad
Man"
,  war is good for the economy - kinda bad for the population tho - and
quite frankly if the war where to be fought here - we would be back
pedalling like crazy - but it will be fought as usual in another country
and
those people will take majority of the damage and deaths. While it is a
horrible fact that 6 million Jews where slaughtered ruthlessly in WWII -
it
might be sobering to remembering they are but a fraction of the 52
million
deaths that results from WWII. Remembering the "World Wars" are a result
of
alliances and pacts made between countries - can we really predict who
has a
pact with who over there? Each started with a small incident that got
way
out of hand - A 3rd world war would be messy as hell - and could indeed
be
the end of humanity - extrapolating out the far does seem ridulious.
But
then the Civil War was suppose to be won in one afternoon - with
picnicer's
watching. We always seem to err on the side of short sightedness with
war.
Maybe we need to be more pessimistic about it.

                                                  Brightest Blessings
-Trisha


>  you have allready saw that i do not know what the answer is, but, if
we
> are
> wrong, it does not matter that we had the worlds backing. if we are
right,
> it does not matter that we do not have the worlds backing. failire to
act
> in
> the past allowed hitler to kill 6 million people. i do not know what
the
> right answer is, but world backing does not decide what the right
answer
> is.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trisha Cummings
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 8/29/2002 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Can't stand it anymore....
>
> Hi Kat,
>
>    I agree with you. Frankly since we don't have the world's backing -
> this
> makes us a Rogue nation and we tend to take a hardline with those - as
> long
> as its not us. I may be way off base but it could well trigger
something
> much bigger and nastier than we truly want. My Dad - long time
military
> guy
> - is against it also -
>
>                                           Trisha
>
>
> > OK, I may not get many people happy with me for saying this, but I
> don't
> > think
> > it's the smartest move, making a move on Iraq without Sadaam moving
> first.
> > We
> > ended the war in the Persian Gulf back in 1991 and to go back there
> now,
> > 10
> > years later and strike at them without provocation is not terribly
> smart,
> > in
> > my opinion.  I'd be very surprised if we weren't called into the
World
> > Court
> > at The Hague and not charged with war crimes for it.
> >
> > To the rest of the world it's irrelevent whether Bush I finished the
> job
> > or
> > not.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:29:20 EDT "BG Greer, PhD"
<[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >     Yeah. I believe that George II feels if he
> > > can't get Osama, he'll finish
> > > what George
> > > I did not. Seems like we will really piss the
> > > Muslim world off more than we
> > > have already. That is not bad in itself, but we
> > > will not stick around to
> > > finish the job.
> > >
> > > Bobby
> > > >Yes, it does. I appreciate kyle letting us
> > > know.
> > > >I need to call my brother to see if the
> > > reserves are getting ready for
> > > >more
> > > >call ups. Of course many time he can't tell
> > > me.
> > > >
> > >