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To: LS
However, it would require a great deal of evidence to support the notion that this one time soldier AGAINST Iraq suddenly and completely shifted gears, so much so that he would kill innocent people in America (as opposed to, say, enlisting in the Iraqi army).

I don't know why this one time soldier AGAINST Iraq would pen the following, but he did:

“The administration has said that Iraq has no right to stockpile chemical or biological weapons ("weapons of mass destruction") - mainly because they have used them in the past. Well, if that's the standard by which these matters are decided, then the U.S. is the nation that set the precedent. The U.S. has stockpiled these same weapons (and more) for over 40 years. The U.S. claims that this was done for deterrent purposes during its "Cold War" with the Soviet Union. Why, then, is it invalid for Iraq to claim the same reason (deterrence) - with respect to Iraq's (real) war with, and the continued threat of, its neighbor Iran?”

Moreover, it means that he lied when he wrote about the hatred of "big government" as his reason for OK City.

I don't think he needed to lie when he said he hated "big government". I don't think his hatred and that of Iraq's hatred were mutually exclusive. In fact, it makes sense that he would ally himself with fellow anti-U.S. terrorists.

53 posted on 09/05/2002 10:23:17 AM PDT by Wm Bach
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To: Wm Bach
Ok, then McLooney may have had consistency. But moral equivalence between the U.S. and Iraq, from any demented mind, won't wash.
59 posted on 09/05/2002 1:04:59 PM PDT by LS
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