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br> -- Harry Sapp /p> p> In comparing our confrontations with Iraq and North Vietnam Senator Harkin overlooked (or ignored) important points. The war in Vietnam escalated tremendously when the very unprincipled President Johnson lied to the American people about U.S. ships being fired on in the Gulf of Tonkin. Without that pretext it is possible that we would never have become so deeply involved in that conflict. In the case of Iraq, it is Saddam Hussein who has lied to the world about his weapons of mass destruction and thumbed his nose at one U.N. resolution after the other. Confronting Iraq militarily is being taken because it is in the interests of our national (and other nations') security. We are not being lied to about the matter. The basis for the action is a matter of public record which has been widely reported. It is appalling that some people are trying to skew the facts to suit their ideology and give little if any thought to the implications of appearing to be enablers of despots like Saddam Hussein. br> -- Dick Melville br> Ozone Park, NY /p> p> HISS AND TELL br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Uncle Stalin : /p> p>"I put my money on Stalin." Malcolm Muggeridge attributed that quote to Walter Duranty of the

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