--
"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the
sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law & order."

- Idi Dada Amin

"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of
Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in
midstream. .and would have incurred incalculable human and political
costs. .We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect rule
Iraq. .There was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see. .Going in and
occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate,
would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression
that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United
States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile
land. It would have been a dramatically different -- and perhaps barren --
outcome."

- Elected President Bush

"Leo Lichtman" wrote in message
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Gunner wrote: (clip) 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half
of the country (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can divide the country in "half" by area, by number of states, or by
population. Unless you know the murder rate per capita under the two sets
of laws, you can be misled by statistics like this.

And what does this interesting non-fact have to do with "Environmentalists?"

Dan