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To: Poet who wrote (4016)	12/18/2002 8:57:59 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

I don't think it was really that apt: the move against Afghanistan was considered, careful, justifiable (and justified) and reasonably well-executed. Not as perfect as was needlessly pretended, but really pretty good by any standards of warfare. It's the followup that was so incredibly dumb. Internment without charge, representation, trial or appeal? Abdication of all responsibilities for the country whose government you've just destroyed? (Check what Afghanistan is like now... it's worse than pre-Taliban). Removal of US civil liberties? and, of course, the irrelevant and basically unprovoked focus on Iraq... presumably purely and simpy because the hawks are p*ssed at not having another nice, B&W, conventional long-distance war to fight...oh, and with revenge and oil thrown in. And if I were one of the putative civil leaders of the Iraqi exiles, I wouldn't be looking at Karzai with any great feeling of hope or happiness right now. Enough. Bush's children will have to live in the world he's shaping, and indeed the country he's ruining... that, for me, should be ample revenge. Pity he'll probably get enough kickbacks to shield them from his consequences...