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To: TimF who wrote (234552)	5/25/2005 2:21:54 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1575994

I am sure there were people like you in the mid 1960s who said we would not be in Vietnam for ten more years and that spending by then for Vietnam would be diminished if non existent. And there were probably people in '68 who thought we would be fighting in Vietnam for another generation. Both of these groups of people are rather irrelevant to the current conversation. On the contrary, human nature is fairly predictable and its always good to look at what's happened historically in order to understand the present and to be able to predict the future with some accuracy. Had Bush and company looked at the history of invasions and the nature of insurgent populations as well as the complexities of nation building, one might hope they would have not been so eager to invade Iraq. And just as likely, there were people like you back in the 1960s predicting that America was winning the war in Vietnam and it was only a matter of time before American troops would be coming home. Because that observation proved to be incorrect and because people like you would not listen to people like me, mass demonstrations started happening throughout the nation and continued until America quit Vietnam.

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