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To: TimF who wrote (26541)	8/14/2006 8:29:57 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) of 540990

At least then there was some context, and the reason for our troops being present was clear. Plus we managed with rather less restrictions on everyone else, and never even a mention of ID cards or contraints on speech or movement (not that either would have done a thing to hamper the latest alleged terrorist attempt). As the article says, one reason this war is loathed is because there's no clear reason for the deaths. Now, families have few ways to make sense of deaths in Iraq. The casus belli that their sons and daughters gave their lives for turned out to be false, and even the authors of the war in the Bush administration and the Blair government seem embarrassed by the Iraqi debacle, wishing it would go away. In such circumstances, the deaths of loved ones must appear as meaningless as if they had died in a car accident (and many actually did) or in a brawl outside a pub. But even here, he misses the point - it's not just a false cause of war, the falsehoods which led us in must have been either deliberate lies or the result of criminal incompetence and wilful ignorance. Interesting find, though. Thanks.

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