Yep!  In the agencies that have a lot of "face" time with the public, or
those who work directly for an elected official, they must keep "un-PC"
opinions to themselves.

-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth H. Thiers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 7:54 AM
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Subject: Re: Impending War


I'm not politically correct enough, especially to work for the government.
I know people who work in the public health department, bless them but, they
always have to toe the line or loose their jobs.

beth t the ot

-----Original Message-----
From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Cleveland, Kyle E.
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 9:32 AM
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Subject: Re: Impending War


Excellent, excellent analysis, Beth!  Have you ever thought about giving up
the O.T. work for a job as a "policy wonk"?  You've done your homework!

-Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth H. Thiers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:46 AM
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Subject: Impending War


Hitler had expansionist plans that called for uniting all Germans and
Germanic peoples under the Third Reich.  He wished to reclaim "German"
territories in Poland, reunited Germans who were relocated to Russia, and
bring Germanic peoples such as the Franks and Norse back under one banner.
He called upon old hatreds that still simmer in the Balkans against anyone
one not like another, xenophobia at it's worse.  He ultimately died the
suicidal death of a Roman emperor.
Saddam has not been successful in his expanisionist plans.  He wasted
precious resources in a water war with Iran, used chemical warfare on the
Kurds and possibly on our people.  His reasoning behind the Kuwait war was
partically justified in that Kuwait was a part of the partitioning of the
Middle East that was to become Iraq post Ottoman Empire.  Only recently has
Saddam called upon the Pan-Arabist movements to justify his existence as
Iraq has traditional been a secular state.  The first gulf war was basically
won because we did start bombing his palaces with big bunker busting bombs.
I would not wish to be in a place of having to make the decision on whether
to go to war or not.
Even our Founding Fathers acknowledged that the pacifist Quakers and
Moravian Christian sects picked up arms when confronted with the massacres
of the French and Indian War and Revolutionary Wars.

Beth T the OT