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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (172775)	10/19/2005 12:15:54 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) of 281500

It's too bad, however, that people who are intellectually capable of acknowledging "the other side" and discussing it rationally are opposed by people whose strength is primarily grounded in the fact that they are largely incapable of recognizing the validity of any other side. I totally agree with you and Ionesco's views on how and why we got into this war. However, I totally disagree with both of you on where we go from here. I agree with Colin Powell when he told Bush that the Pottery Barn principle holds if we went into Iraq. If you break it, you own it. We went into Iraq. We broke Iraq. Now we own Iraq. We have to fix Iraq before we leave. Whatever it takes. It is not impossible to fix Iraq. I can fix Iraq. You can fix Iraq. But you have to want to fix Iraq. All it takes is a lot of money. You say we can't afford it. Tough doodoo. We should ahve thought about that before we went in there and broke it. What we did in Iraq was really, really bad. If we leave Iraq broken like it is, that would also be very, very bad.

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