From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Numbers Game Question Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:15:01 +0000 HealantHenry wrote: > >Spain, Italy, Portugal, Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, > >Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, >Macedonia, > >Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, Japan, > >Australia. > >The peoples of this "coalition" by a vast majority oppose this warmongering >solution to the entity Saddam Hussein... If you want to talk about public opinion within those countries, then let's go through the history of public opinion in such matters. Before Pearl Harbor was bombed, US public opinion was AGAINST entering WWII. I assume you agree that this was wrong. In December 1990, a New York Times/CBS News poll indicated that 48 percent of the American people wanted Bush to wait before taking any action if Iraq failed to withdraw from Kuwait by Bush's January 15 deadline. And that was in the face of an outright invasion by Hussein! Finally, you may remember the massive demonstrations in both the US and Europe when the US put Pershing missiles in Germany in 1984 to counter Soviet installations. Demonstrators shouted that it would provoke a war, while Reagan said that it would deter. We now have the hindsight to see who was right. Anthony Crifasi _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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