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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (44055)	9/15/2002 1:54:11 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 281500

Actually, I thought it fired on all cylinders rather well. Osama was certainly no ignoramus when it came to the American media. Nearly 20 years ago Reagan was largely forced out of Lebanan due to the same fringe left who cast aspersions on Bush today. He resisted the political pressure for months and then finally gave in. I disagree with the characterization that we "ran" from Beirut. As I recall we pummeled the hilltops with our battleships pretty severely before we left. Bush skillfully organized a coalition force which crushed the army of Iraq and sent them packing with minimum American casualties. He had a specific mission and accomplished it. A mission he fought tooth and nail to get support from the left in congress to take on. I remember how close the vote was, and how few liberal Democrats supported military action. Here in Seattle some of those same "fringe" politicians marched in the streets to protest the war. It's easy to re-write history and pretend there was this vast support to go into Baghdad or wipe out the Republican guard and Bush somehow stood in the way (not that you're saying that). The truth is almost no one in America wanted to march into Baghdad then. And Bush was severely criticized by the elite media for the carnage we inflicted on the Republican guard on the road out of Kawaiit. Further, we had no real reason then to go after Saddam and take on the risk of further American casualties. It was reasonable to assume he would lose his grip on power and fall in disgrace after the pounding we gave him. Monday morning quarter-backing is always easy when it involves foreign affairs. The same kind of political battles are being fought today. And I have little doubt when this is all over the same kind of re-writing will be artfully accomplished by those in the fringe elite media.