Change of Heart (1649)

[Beverly Flanigan]

Thank you, Larry!  (But off-list, I forwarded your comment to all my friends.)

At 11:51 PM 2/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>At 6:45 PM -0500 2/9/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>>    OED has 1828 for "change of heart."
>>    Change of heart?  Saddam?  Has he morphed into Jennifer Lopez?
>>Did the CNN Valentine's Day drudge write this?
>>    I'm reading that the latest entertainment celebrity to Barbra
>>"Streisandize" is Madonna.  Don't they realize that all they're
>>doing is giving more time to a known enemy to develop biological and
>>chemical weapons?  Will they be happy if all of New York City is
>>destroyed next time?  Is Madonna really Jewish?
>>    Back to word and phrase origins.
>
>Please.  At least one of us would vote for that.  I'm pretty sure
>this isn't the appropriate forum--I get sick enough watching the news.
>
>Not everyone here thinks that the scheduled war with Iraq will be
>worth the devastation in terms of people (Iraqi civilians, civilians
>in neighboring countries, U.S. soldiers, and no doubt others), the
>environment, the impact on the perception of the U.S. in the rest of
>the world, the further destruction of civil liberties (especially to
>those of Mideast or South Asian origin), or the damage to an already
>tottering domestic economy from which our leaders are intent on
>funneling all resources that don't go to the war effort into other
>military "needs", tax cuts for the wealthiest citizens, subsidies for
>purchasers of very large SUVs, and such, while we build up an
>enormous debt for the next generations to pay off and while we can't
>afford education or medical care for the current generation.  Yes,
>Saddam is a rogue dictator, as vile as a number of others we've
>supported--I wish previous administrations (including G. H. W.
>Bush's, before the Gulf War) hadn't worked so well to build him up.
>Yes, he almost has nuclear weapons (maybe), and he's unstable.  Good
>thing we can ignore the non-crisis with North Korea, which already
>has nuclear weapons (probably) and a leader more unstable than
>Saddam.  Yes, Saddam may well have some ties with Bin Laden and those
>who attacked the Trade Center--unlike our "friends" in Saudi Arabia,
>Pakistan, Qatar, etc., who we know grew, harbored, and directly
>supported the terrorists, and even though the man Secretary Powell
>linked to Saddam is in fact a rabid anti-Saddam zealot, as has been
>widely reported, and even though the one thing we can perform that
>will actually encourage Saddam to use those weapons you refer to
>would be the very invasion we're planning.  And yes, I promise not to
>post off-topic diatribes about Iraq and the coming war if everyone
>else promises not to.
>
>Larry