[extropy-chat] PRECOG: The Smoking Gun is found..

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> Don't you think that if Saddam were faced with a united front of the
> international community, that he would have left office without all the
> destruction, bloodshed, and now the insurgency campaign?

Like he did in 1991 ?  Oh wait...

> Instead, we get France promoting this idea that the US needs to be
> counterbalanced for the simple yet completely amoral pretext that it
> isn't a good thing for one nation, no matter how benign when compared to
> history, to be the sole superpower.

OTOH, I have to agree with you on the corruptness of the
current French government.  I suspect that even the French
will, after all the current French government won the
election because his opponent was the extreme right party
candidate, leading to the "election slogan":

	"Vote the crook, not the fascist"

cheers,

Rik
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