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Date Posted: 18:03:54 02/14/03 Fri
Author: Vincent from UD, not Florida
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 205.147.242.4
Subject: Streisand's probing mind

The Questions below were taken from Barbara Streisand's website. What a deep thinker. Can anybody possibly supply an answer to her questions. Pick one or two and comment.

Some Questions to Think About...

I wrote these questions in September, 2002, but never put them on my website. I think they are still relevant questions and are worth considering:

1. How many body bags does the military expect to send home to America?

2. What is the cost of the war in billions of dollars? One advisor to the president estimates the war would cost up to $200 billion, but he was quickly replaced by a more conservative successor.

3. Are there estimates for how long American troops would have to stay there? Are they remotely realistic? A lot of knowledgeable people predict a very long and expensive haul.

4. What are the costs in civilian lives and social and environmental destruction (i.e. is Saddam going to burn oil fields again)?

5. How much of this war is about oil?

6. How much of this war is a vendetta against "the man who tried to kill my dad"?

7. Why now? For 11 years (without attacking the United States) Saddam Hussein has been defying U.N. resolutions, as many countries have. Since writing these questions last September, the international community is now faced with a prime example of this situation, with North Korea defying multilateral nuclear proliferation treaties. The Bush administration�s response has been a policy of containment. Why the double standard? Could this be because North Korea doesn�t have oil?

8. If we preemptively attack Iraq, will Iraq strike Israel who will then retaliate, leading to the Arab world responding, which will set off the powder keg in the entire Middle East and will disrupt the continuity of some Arab nations Mr. Bush counts among his allies?

9. Is there really an alliance between Iraq and Al Qaeda, since one society is secular and one is fundamentalist? (I've read that bin Laden had issued a Fatwa calling Hussein an apostate who needs to be destroyed.)

10. What is the responsibility of a powerful nation to follow the rule of international law? ... We should be setting an example for the rest of the world.

11. Will Hussein give weapons of mass destruction to Al Qaeda? (I�ve read Hussein would be afraid to ... because if Al Qaeda obtained weapons of mass destruction, one of their first targets would be Iraq).

12. What will be the increased terrorist threat to the United States as a result of going to war with Iraq?

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[> Someone with initials B.S. has a little too much tie on her hands and spends a lot of time wringing them. These are the propaganda questions provided to her. She probably forgot and thinks she thought of them. What a waste of time. -- SurveyGuy, 18:59:17 02/14/03 Fri (maxtnt04-228.phlpa.fast.net/209.92.96.228)

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[> lemme take a shot....
Why the double standard? Could this be because North Korea doesn?t have oil?
NO, it's because N. Korea has nukes, which will result in far maor nasty body bags.... -- H_Bergeron, 00:53:21 02/15/03 Sat (pcp02148573pcs.neave01.pa.comcast.net/68.81.252.202)

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[> [> That's right - only attack weaker countries, it's safer -- Ahmed, 04:20:34 03/03/03 Mon (cache8-2.ruh.isu.net.sa/212.138.47.27)

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[> How much of this war is about oil? \r\n \r\n
Venezuela's about oil...and Iraq would be less about oil
if it wasn't for your SUV driving, "public radio and private everything else" half-caf latte liberal friends.... -- H_Bergeron, 00:58:36 02/15/03 Sat (pcp02148573pcs.neave01.pa.comcast.net/68.81.252.202)

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[> [> I think BS should read what Tom Wolfe and Truman Capote wrote about actors shooting their mouths off. These people are dumber than dirt. -- Vincent, 10:59:22 02/15/03 Sat (NoHost/170.115.178.58)

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[> Hasn't that f-in' plane with her and Baldwin, Sarandon, Asner, Farrell, O'Donnell, Glover, etc. left yet? -- pat (still around...), 13:31:04 02/20/03 Thu (NoHost/149.101.1.124)

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[> [> Hi there, pat! Was just asking myself that very question the past 700+ days. Plane's gotta be full by now. What's the holdup? -- JL, 14:19:51 02/22/03 Sat (pcp01376707pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.80.69.241)

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[> [> [> Security checks in the airport, I'd guess... -- Spock, 13:20:17 02/25/03 Tue (user-vc8fm1s.biz.mindspring.com/216.135.216.60)

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