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To: one_less who wrote (218865)	2/16/2007 5:19:03 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (3) of 281500

After reading your post I have to ask, do you see the struggle going on in Iraq as one between the forces of moderation and radicals? If so you've swallowed too much of the Bush drug. The men fighting for power in Iraq are not moderates. There may no longer be any recognizable moderate block in Iraq. It is radicals versus radicals, Shiites versus Sunnis, Kurds for Kurds and sect versus sect. A moderate majority of Iraqis willing to fight and die for moderation in Iraq was a pipe dream. That's what the experts were trying to tell our feckless leader before he stepped in the quicksand but he was a guy who "knew men's hearts," and, like you, believed naively that freedom was a "God given" or "natural" right of men and that given freedom men "would not attack their neighbors." So my view is that you've posted idealistic, unrealistic "hopes" that can only be clung to if you fully ignore what reality is telling you. Your inability to flesh out even the barest details of a course of action that might lead to your idyllic Iraq attests to that lack of reality based thinking. And our soldiers are dying there. Ed

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