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To: stockman_scott who wrote (47420)	9/27/2002 11:31:09 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

For months the Bush war team has been talking up taking out Saddam and sneaking so many war toys into places like Qatar and Kuwait that it's a wonder our desert launching pads haven't already sunk from the weight of our pre-positioned gear and ammo. The old "sneak-a-war" routine, send out the troops, then use specious reasoning to convince the nation and Congress we need to fight Saddam. CAn we be led like sheep into this abyss. It's looking like it. Only Sens. Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska stood tall and voted “nay.” When Morse chillingly predicted we'd lose the war and LBJ would go down in flames, most members of Congress responded that they were patriotically backing the president in a time of crisis. As Christopher Hitchens once said, just because no one else agrees with you doesn't mean you're wrong In the case of Vietnam, we were dead wrong to the detriment of this country to this day. However, to his credit, LBJ realized that the Vietnam war was a mistake and sought peace. So demoralized was he that he didn't run for a second term. It was up to Nixon to pull us out of Vietnam. He did not and illegally sent covert missions into Cambodia. Six more years, thousands more lives, hundreds of thousands of lives directly adversely affected. The country was worse off for that mistake.