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- exador0
tons of respect right back at ya mitsu.
i enjoy a good debate as well, and have always tried to keep above the name calling...
once you start down that road you burn every bridge here that you may have made giving advice, or joking around..one thing i've always loved about NT was that we could get to know and associate with other designers all over the world..,
it's only natural that we'll have different opinions..
how we express those opinions dictates how others will treat us..
and i like to think that i get treated pretty well here..and treat others the same...oh..and mitsu..maybe this could be the bit that changes your opinion a bit..
IRAQ
CBS has reported that barely five hours after the attacks on Washington and New York, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is quoted shorthand by aides saying, in reference to Saddam Hussein, “Judge whether good enough to hit S.H. at same time. Not only UBL [Osama bin Laden]. Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.” (“Plan for Iraq Attack Began on 9/11”, CBS Washington, 4 September 2002) If it weren’t for September 11, would we be marching to war in Iraq today?
They may have found another excuse; they have wanted to do this for some time. 9/11 gave them the excuse to do many things: Afghanistan, Iraq, the crackdown on civil liberties at home, the crackdown on the Freedom of Information Act – all kinds of things, at home and abroad. They would have found some other pretext if it wasn’t for 9/11 – and that isn’t even a pretext in the case of Iraq. With Afghanistan, on the surface at least, it could be used as a pretext because there was some connection there, supposedly, but with Iraq there is no connection whatsoever with 9/11.