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To: KLP who wrote (171360)	9/28/2005 9:53:58 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (4) of 281500

I do keep wondering if the Rev War were being fought today, would it be successful in the end, or would the "children --who want everything now, this minute, thank you very much--" pull out, and we would lose as we did in VietNam? 1) I doubt the overwhelming majority of people who fought and died on our side have your understanding and appreciation of the Rev War. IMO much of what happened was serendipitous. 2) We did not lose in Vietnam. We chose to go in and we chose to leave. We could have stayed in Vietnam and we could have killed all the Vietnamese, but we chose to leave. When we left, the Vietnamese were not about to come and get us. In the end, it was not about Vietnam. It was all about us. It will be the same in Iraq. We chose the date and time to go in and we will choose the date and time to leave. The Vietnamese did not and can not ever defeat us. Similarly, the Iraqis will not and can not ever defeat us. We will decide how to end things. That may all sound very harsh, but that is the reality. I just hope we can do the right thing.

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