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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've only had time to dip into some ongoing threads
but I notice that both Robert Lindauer and Dan Clemmensen have</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>stated that they think that "we", meaning the US,
or the Bush administration, (I'm not part of any of those "we") deliberately
lied or misrepresented the reasons for invading Iraq. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whilst I do tend to that view, I am not
utterly convinced of it yet. And yet it is an important fact, or otherwise, to
establish or not surely? One thing that I suspect most extropian or
transhumanist list posters might agree on, is that the Iraq and terrorism
business has grabbed a big chunk of the worlds attention. Attention that might
have been directed far more profitably (to the net human good) elsewhere.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wonder on what basis those that are convinced of
it, are</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so convinced? Please, give only opinions based on
hard facts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>W</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>e all know that we
can make up nonsense for ourselves we don't need to do it for each
other.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>