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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Election Result:More War in '84!
Message-ID: <6177@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 17:55:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 17:55:36 1984
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Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
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	>The very day after the election the big news is a Soviet shipment
	>of Mig's to Nicaragua. I think that is the worst possible thing
	>the Soviets could do at this point.
And guess who invented this "news"?

	>But it provides the perfect foil for Reagan--all he needs is to find
	>his own Tonkin Gulf--it needn't be real anymore than Johnson's was.
You bet it won't!

	>all other catastrophes are temporary and recoverable, even the worst
	>of all possibilities a collapse of the banking system again and
	>Depression.
Sure? You can't bring back someone to life who has been killed in the name
of "freedom". Compared to that the mentioned "worst possibility" is only
a minor inconvenience.

	>Even Republicans don't want a Nuclear War, do you?
Direct your question to the Pentagon; no doubt the answer will be "no comment",
meaning just a much as "yes".

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
	...{seismo,decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet