-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:23:59PM -0800, Tom wrote: > compared to the taliban and the islamists, I cannot believe you are > acusing *US* of advocating a theocracy. talk about head up the ass.
We're not a whole lot better. Remember the cold war and it's spinoff conflicts in Vietnam and Korea? The US killed countless many people because those in power in the US didn't like the structure of government. > That is, the outcome was indeterminate. So anybody else who could have > potentially been said to "win" would be equally illegitmate. It kind of > sucks when you have a country without a president, so we had to do some > Solomonic justice. Any outcome would have been equally arbitrary, this > one was least constitutionally harmful. If we didn't have an electoral college, it would never have come down to that point. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tstxUzgNqloQMwcRAl2NAKDhKhPFSh60gPMLtas4FaFKI7XgrwCfU5eE mo4hXftgRANltMEvg/iO21I= =QW9S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]