[P1] OT: self-quotes

[Joe Dombrowski]

Glad to hear you're a former intelligence officer.

Joe Dombrowski
jadombro at attbi.com


On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:49 PM, Jay Boshara wrote:

> As a former intelligence officer whose job it was to evaluate the 
> military
> potential of near east nations, as a geographer who has lived near the 
> Iraqi
> border in southeastern Turkey and studied Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq 
> for
> nine years, and as a professor of political science whose research 
> deals
> with the multilateral relations of these countries, please believe me 
> (or at
> least consider it) when I say this: IRAQ IS NOT CURRENTLY A THREAT TO 
> US,
> ITS NEIGHBORS OR OUR OIL SUPPLY, AND THEY ARE NOT IN LEAGUE WITH AL 
> QUAEDA.
> The notion that Iraq still possesses and is continuing to develop 
> weapons of
> mass destruction TO A DEGREE THAT WOULD THREATEN OTHER NATIONS is 
> ludicrous
> -- our president is simply using this as a false justification to grab
> Iraq's oilfields and divert attention from a recession that is 
> remarkably
> similar to the one that deprived his father of a second term.  And, he 
> is
> trying to redeem his father's "failed" foreign policy (though I still 
> think
> it was wise of him to stop the invasion before we got involved in an 
> urban
> war in Baghdad).  Please consider this as well: To question our 
> leaders'
> actions or motivations is NOT unpatriotic.  In fact, it is our right 
> and
> duty, and it is part of what makes America so great.
>
> Jay Boshara.
>
>
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