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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: E who wrote (648624)10/20/2004 3:47:58 PM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
If the money and lives being wasted in Iraq were being spent intelligently to counter al-Q, that would be better, not the same, and not worse.

Well, this is just gratuitous Monday morning quarterbacking in the vein of Kerry's "I would have done everything differently." These kind of throw-away lines might be heard from sixth-graders.

Al-Q demonstrated on 9/11 that they wished to take their war against us to our homeland. In three years since they have not attacked again. This is powerful prima facie evidence that Bush's strategy for war on terror has worked. The core of the strategy was to quickly move the battlefield from U.S. soil to the Arab lands. Afghanistan came first, then Iraq, as a supporter of terrorism.

American lives have been lost in these initiatives. Perhaps you have a plan that would have been effective and cost no lives. Or perhaps your plan would have cost lives from other nations. I'm just guessing here, but I doubt the war can be successfully be waged by writing checks or by remote control.

As an aside, in WWII a fundamental difference between American and British strategy for ground war was that the British put more stock in technological innovations that might avoid casualties, whereas the U.S. was less averse to losing men to gain objectives. The British would only bomb at night, leaving it to the U.S. to do the daytime bombing which we believed was considerably more effective, but which was much more costly.
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