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I was told by two people that you post under multiple handles. If I/they were wrong, I apologize.

You have been asked to stop posting crap like this however. In your own words:

The elite that pushed the war were liberals; they used their media connections to convince the American people that they were under attack, an act of supreme anti-patriotism, to capture political support for the war. That the whole war was debt financed speaks to the leftwing nature of the entire enterprise.

Furthermore, the logic that has the United States building a nation in the Middle East is strictly leftwing and the current rationale for the war that Saddam was a bad-man is pure Clintonism. The seductive simplicity of total evil versus total good can overwhelm the obvious logical and ethical problems of building a democracy at gunpoint-- an idea that comes from the French liberal, Rousseau.

That said, the owner of the site has made it clear he does not want this debate on this site, and I respect his wishes, but I would be happy to carry on over Freep Mail.

60 posted on 04/09/2004 11:03:47 AM EDT by JohnGalt

I was pinged to this thread in the same fashion as dirtboy pinged me to his thread on which you pulled my post. I am perfectly content to not debate left/right questions as the owner of the site has stated on the homepage that he does not want that debate here. I was not asked by anybody directly to cease and desist, I did so on my own.

However, when I am invited to a thread where certain posters are challenging the administration's position, trumpeting one liners from ABC news as their raison d'etre or posting the ruling of a leftwing judge from NY, I have an opportunity to correct the tinfoil hatters and square them with the very serious situation our countrymen have found ourselves in Iraq. I have friends in Iraq who I care for deeply and wish to see back state's side ASAP, and I have no intention of supporting any policy but getting them home ASAP, mission accomplished.

I have stated for the record on this thread the Administration's position on links between AQ, Iraq, and 9.11 of which you are large proponent of. You can loath my presence on this thread all you wish, but I offered the courtesy of a response to an interested party who can now hone his message to answer critics out in the real world, which is why I assume he pinged me in the first place.