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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (97230)	5/2/2003 10:23:08 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

At last someone who can think! Krauthammer is good. And smart. I very seldom disagree with him.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (97230)	5/2/2003 10:35:44 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

AN EMAIL FROM THE FRONT: A friend's nephew was in the Iraq war and she forwarded me this email from one Captain Jack Murphy (love the name). I liked it better than I did the president's speech: Because of where and what we were engaged in doing, I was extremely busy and out of contact for a while, so please forgive me for being distant. I understand there was skepticism and negativity about the war, admittedly for some clear reasons. As someone on the tip of the national policy spear, I had my own concerns about what we were getting into. I was introduced to Saddam?s devious war machine up close and personal, witnessed his campaigns of intimidation and oppression, and the vast disparity between gluttony and poverty. I was also privileged to see thousands upon thousands of newly liberated people celebrating in the streets and on the rooftops of As Asawama, the first Hajj pilgrimages to the holy cities of Karbala and An Najef in two decades, proud fathers holding up their newborn babies to me. I don't have any doubts anymore. War cannot be antiseptic and bad things can happen to good people, but we did the right things for the right reasons. So, as I step off my soapbox ... P.S. - I got a great tan.Persuasive, no? ANDREW SULLIVAN.Com.http://www.andrewsullivan.com/