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I'm listening to it again and am realizing how much I missed in my paraphrase. Mohammed made excellent points regarding civilian deaths saying that yes people will die, perhaps his own cousins, but if Saddam is left in power death is guaranteed for far more people. He ended magnanimously by stating that the 'little girl' remark is not an insult as we all start out little and then learn and grow. As such she has no place lecturing him. She is simply not ready for the adult world.

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When appraising the idiocy of the protestors, the one (and only) hope I hold close to my heart is the knowledge that most are "little girls" and "little boys" who one day will grow up to face life as an adult, and come to appreciate their country.

I would wager that many many here in freeperland have been so young and naive and stupid, to various degrees. Only a small percentage of these anti-war/anti-American protestors will stick with their dangerous socialist/communist mindset. For that, we can thank our mericiful God.

THAT is what happens when REALITY hits a LIBERAL in the head...and it was soooooo funny...Its' NOT an wonder why the national media will not play this...It wouuld show how flacid (touchy-feely) liberalism has become... :)

M: Mohammed
A: Andrea
B: Brian

M: How exactly will leaving Saddam in power, promote peace and justice in Iraq?

A: Um, again, what I need to say is that

A: regime change is that - regime change is the issue to the Iraqi people. How will, how will bombing Iraq help bring peace and justice and bombing people and killing thousands of innocent people -

M: [talking over] no, no, now, stop evading; how exactly will leaving Saddam... I will explain it to you, I'll be glad to answer your questions but you are choosing not to answer mine

B: Let him, let him, let him explain, let Mohammed explain how bombing will work

M: [talking over]

M: Since you are choosing to play ping-pong, and not answer my question, little girl, I will answer yours. There were three civilian deaths in the war. Saddam has killed two million people. There are families here in this country who lost 20 or 30 people on one day in a gas attack by Saddam Hussein, little girl. And I will tell you this: yes, civilians will die; my cousins will die, maybe, Allah forbid. But here's a certainty that you do not understand in your simplistic Nickelodeon diplomacy: is that you are guaranteed to have civilians die under Saddam. So now you try again to answer my question without playing the ping-pong: how does leaving Saddam in power, promote peace and justice in Iraq?

A: Uh, I guess, what folks who listen to this show are saying, I hear are calling in, are saying -

M: I'm not asking what folks who are listening to this show say -

A: you know -

M: can you answer the question, little girl?

A: [laughs]

M: Oh now you laugh at people dying

A: Well no, what I'm -

M: [talking over] you're unable to answer the question!

A: What I'm laughing at, is that it seems like you need to, um, personally attack me to make your point.

M: I do not want advice from you; I'm not giving you advice.

B/A/M: [talking over]

B: Mohammed, Mohammed, let me pose this way: Andrea, I have the feeling, that if you just answer his question, he'll be happy.

A: (laughs)

B/A/M: [talking over]

A: What I believe, is, that bombing and killing people is not going to bring peace and justice. What I, what I also believe, is that there are other alternatives, if we can pursue -

M: [talking over] You're not going to answer the question, you're a joke! You are a joke, you cannot answer the question! You cannot answer the question, you are a joke, you are a joke! I will give you one more chance and then I'll never listen to a word you say again, you chirping bird.

B/A/M: [talking over]

B: How will - how can you promote peace and justice without removing Saddam? That's his question, it's real simple, Andrea.

A: Uh what I (ha, ha, ha)

M: [talking over] Listen to the laughter of this little bird, how she classifies herself -

B: [talking over] I don't see why it's so hard, Andrea -

A: [talking over] I don't think that calling somebody a little bird is going to help address the serious questions that millions of people are worried about.

M: [talking over] You don't want to answer [?] the serious questions!

A: People are worried about the consequences of a war. OK, millions of people are -

M: [talking over] No, I am not OK with you not answering the questions!

A: [talking over] [something] bombing and killing many people, and millions of people are worried about increasing security threats to people in the United States if we get a war. And additionally, I don't, uh -

B: [talking over] Sure, sure, sure, I, we, we're retreading the same territory, that, that, yeah, we're retreading, but -

M: [talking over] You're got blustering [?], little girl -

A: (laughs)

B: You're not answering the question, Andrea. Andrea, Andrea, you can continue to petulantly gale in laughter, but you have to admit, you're not answering his question, simple question. What, you're coming off, you're coming off like my 9 year old niece!

A: [talks over] The only, it seems like the only focus that we can have here, is Saddam Hussein, and the fact is that Iraq -

M/A: [talk over]

M: [talks over] That is the focus of the war! Do you understand one thing about anything? That is the focus of the war!

A: [talks over]

B: Curiously, Andrea, you're, you're -

A: [talks over] there are alternatives -

B: [talks over]

B: Yeah, alright, but curiously, you're talking to a guy from Iraq, and you're telling him that peace and justice will somehow remove the guy that is the reason he had to emigrate here. Is that what you're saying?

A: What I'm saying is that -

M: Now she repeats herself again!

A: You should pursue peace and justice to the Iraqi people, through international law, through diplomacy -

M: [talks over] International law failed, Andrea!

A: [talks over] through pressure, through various different initiatives, if we can pursue them in North Korea, if we can pursue them in Israel and Palestine, and all over the world, we can pursue them in Iraq.

M: I've got to say one more thing before I -

A: and, and, I also

B: Andrea, Mohammed has to go, he's a caller, he gets to go, you've been on the -

M: I got to say one more thing please, Brian. If you, if you personally end up going to the Gulf, Allah will bless you, because Saddam is a prit animal slug [? phonetic], and everybody knows this. And for the listeners who hear this girl, and she thinks I insult her with the term, I do not insult her, being a little girl is natural! We all start out children, and we learn and grow. But she has no point lecturing me on what will happen in Iraq, or lecturing you, this is why this so called peace movement, they cannot even justify their own name. And, I will remind you, if they leave Saddam in power, they guarantee death. If he is removed, there will be some, but for a short time, and the Iraqi people are ready and they will welcome the Americans, including if, Allah forbid, Brian, a suits goes [? phonetic]. So Andrea, do not take it as being an insult that you are a little girl; you are simply not ready for the adult world. Thank you Brian.

B: Thank you Mohammed. What he's referring to, Andrea, is tomorrow night is my final night here on KVI. My, uh, I, I'm, being called up by the Army National Guard. I was in the first Desert Storm;I pray to God I'm not in the second one, I just wonder, as they say, in ten years will people shake my hand and say "thanks for my freedom," or will they shake your hand. Neither you nor I nor - know.