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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (569208)	4/26/2004 5:07:59 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Re: I think there's a reasonable probability of it getting worse before getting better, >>> You assume that a continuation of the present policies will result in gaining what we would consider a 'victory'. I'd argue that it ain't necessarily so! but we'll have victories all along the way... >>> Winning battgle after battle --- but ultimately failing to achieve what we claim to want (a unified, Democratic, peaceful Iraq that is friendly to Western values) would not be much of a 'victory'. this only encourages the enemy... >>> Who is the 'enemy', exactly? >>> Sunnis and tribal members of Saddam's clan ('dead enders in Rummie's phrase)? Fundamentalist Shias who desire religious rule? Nationalist Iraqis who don't want any occupation by foreigners? Trans-national muslim fighters, outgrowths of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and Nasirism, who think they are fighting a 'holy war' against crusaders? Terrorists? Insurgents? Iraqi Communists? Mob-style Capitalists who think we are going to queer their smuggling profits? During WW II, this would have been unthinkable... >>> Er... this ain't WW II (a war we supposedly fought against totalitarian rule, and for the rights of a free Democratic people. Dissent is a Democratic value... stifling dissent is a Totalitarian value.)

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