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To: Elroy who wrote (233620)	5/19/2005 3:14:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1572069

From day one, the hawks have told the rest of us how wrong our view is; that what we see and hear is not real. The truth is that you all have been wrong from before the very first shot had been fired. The removal of Saddam's regime has been accomplished. Excuse me, but that was the easy part. The opportunity for the Iraqi population to live in a representative, tolerant society is in front of them for the taking. They aren't as excited by the prospect as you. You are imposing your values on them. Besides, they have bigger fish to fry like trying not to get shot and getting enough electricity to survive. That's 95% of the goal of the invasion, so how you conclude that the "hawks" were wrong is beyond me. Deposing of Saddam, a 2 bit dictator who had been stripped of his weapons and power a decade before, was ten percent of the problem. Winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis, teaching them the complicated and convoluted process that is called democracy and establishing the democratic institutions needed to make it all happen along with stopping the economic skid of a decade was the remaining 120% of the problem. The American leaders who perpetrated this nightmare and foisted it on the American people when they did not want it do not understand the complicated process that is called nation building. Its why they leapt without looking. There ideology drove them instead of their brains, assuming they have any. Personally, I'm not in the camp that believes the population of Iraq is unable to govern themselves in the same fashion as free societies in other parts of the planet. Its not too late to learn. Efforts are being made daily by the coalition and by Iraqis to neutralize the perpetrators of violence. Why don't you support those efforts, rather than whatever it is that you are supporting? I have told you ad nauseum. You don't want to hear it.

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