What's funny is how fast this would change if we were just to get a few more bodybags back... http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/15/ret.assassination.poll/index.html (CNN) -- A majority of Americans support giving government agents the power to assassinate terrorists despite a U.S. policy forbidding such actions, according to a Newsweek poll released Saturday. In addition, more than three-quarters of 1,003 people surveyed -- 78 percent -- said they favored using military force against Saddam Hussein's forces in Iraq, with 75 percent supporting operations against terrorist targets in other Middle Eastern nations and 66 percent backing those in countries outside the region. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------