Re: AIDS Epidemic

-- 
"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the
sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law & order."

- Idi Dada Amin

"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of
Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in
midstream. .and would have incurred incalculable human and political
costs. .We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect rule
Iraq. .There was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see. .Going in and
occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate,
would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression
that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United
States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile
land. It would have been a dramatically  different -- and perhaps barren -- 
outcome."

- Elected President Bush

"Rat & Swan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>    It did.  We raised quite a bit of money, set up food banks, created
>    volunteer groups whose members visited people with AIDS to help
>    them with household tasks, shopping and health care, set up our own
>    newsletters, pamphlets, and programs to bring information to the
>    places where it was needed, even places like baths, bars, S/M clubs,
>    and so on. (Remember the bowls of condoms and free condom give-aways,
>    and free clean needle exchanges?) Activists in the gay community
>    argued for safe-sex practices, created support groups to help
>    encourage safe-sex, worked hard to make safe-sex "hot".  Even
>    pornographers like John Preston got into the act by writing porn
>    with safe-sex messages.  The community -- almost all of it -- rallied
>    behind the effort.  And we succeeded in slowing the epidemic quite
>    a bit.  A big part of the problem was the long incubation period.
>    Many people were infected but didn't know it.  The community
>    activists stressed that everyone should assume _anyone_ they slept
>    with, long-term or short-term, was infected and take precautions.

Ooh.  Can we start a pool: how long until Gunner...

Nah.  I'm patient.  Even now, he is just itching to type in those words,
he can hardly restrain himself.  He is trying to hold back, but, no, here
they come.

This will be fun!

Dan