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To: Neocon who wrote (103543)	6/30/2003 9:40:11 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thank you for confirming that #reply-19069266 was, indeed, a Godwin's Law demonstration, gaseous and oblique though it may have been. Personally, I think Israel is a better example than Vietnam of the wonders inherent in open-ended military occupation operations. Maybe the PNAC people know something that's not apparent to mere mortals that makes the Lebanon and the West Bank /Gaza occupations look good.

To: Neocon who wrote (103543)	6/30/2003 10:38:12 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Neocon; Re: "You all are allowed to allude to Vietnam, but I cannot allude to World War II? Okay." Only a complete coward would think that Iraq in 2003 and Germany in the 1930s were at all similar. Germany was a world power with a world class military machine. Iraq was a puny country with an obsolete, 3rd class, amateurish military. One was a threat, one was not. But being a world class coward, you blew Iraq up into a Germany sized threat. And now you're stuck fighting civilians. -- Carl