"But the world isn't like that"

[Paul Mackin]

Terrance wrote:

>pynchonoid wrote:
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>>--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
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>>>apart from the fact that there's currently
>>>no actual war to stop,
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>>I don't know what you call the current bombing of Iraq
>>carried out almost daily (50+ strikes this year that
>>have been publicly anounced), but it looks like war to
>>me-- fighter plane dropping bombs and firing rockets,
>>anti-aircraft fire, death and destruction on the
>>ground, & etc.  Bush has promised to escalate with an
>>attack Iraq to unseat Saddam Hussein  We want to stop
>>this escalation of the war that  before it starts.
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>>No actual war?  Define it as you like, I guess, but
>>this sort of thing appears in the press, daily:
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>>Airstrikes in Iraq appear to be war preparations
>>But Pentagon says pilots in no-fly zone are responding
>>in self defense
>>By Robert Burns
>>Associated Press
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>An example. Robert says that currently there is no actual war to stop
>and you disagree. Why not define war first. No, you say, define it as
>you like because you can resist delivering another newspaper and two
>scoops of poop. 
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Though I disagree with you, I will fight to the death your right to 
speak, but   DEFINE YOUR TERMS.

--Voltaire

If defining one's terms ever miraculously became a requirement, the 
"newsroom" would have to shut down completely.  And no more "parties."

Stop the war.

Bush supporting war mongers
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