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To: Elsewhere who wrote (121725)	12/17/2003 3:18:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

No, that's not the point. What I would like to see is some kind of apology or at least distancing from having employed Saddam as a useful pawn against the greater enemy of Iran, similar to what Mrs. Albright said about "serious mistakes" of 1970ies US foreign policy in South America. Doesn't this amount to saying that you don't care what policy America adopts now, even if it's the right one - you won't approve until we have "apologized" enough for past "mistakes"? Meantime, Bush is for democracy and human rights in Iraq and has already announced the date of turnover of political power to the Iraqis. We are doing everything in our power to announce that, while only we can fight the insurgency at the moment, we are building the Iraqi forces and political systems so they can take over their own country ASAP, we don't want it as a colony. What more does the left want? Sometimes it's easy to get the idea that the left is against freedom and democracy itself, if it means they have to support any policy of George W Bush. They don't want to be confused by a Republican administration that is not for the status quo and realpolitik. They know whom they hate, don't confuse them with new facts.

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