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To: michael97123 who wrote (106307)	7/18/2003 3:42:40 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Soon enough? No. There is no timetable for ever leaving Iraq.

To: michael97123 who wrote (106307)	7/18/2003 11:55:50 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi michael97123; Re: "You guys are all about instant gratification." Actually, you were the ones that wanted an instant war. We were willing to wait and let inspections do their job. Re: "Nothing is viewed in perspective. How did it look in March of 1942, a few months after pearl?" The US was so much economically and militarily stronger than Japan that only those who were unaware of the numbers doubted that the US would beat the crap out of them. I guess the cowards were worried, but the military planners never doubted a US victory. Hell, even some Japanese generals knew the US would win. The war was not even close. The Iraq debacle is quite different from WW2. Who would have doubted, in 1961, that the US would be victorious in Vietnam? The difference between the wars is that in WW2 the US was united in defense of its own territory. In Iraq (as in Vietnam), our country is bitterly divided (listen to what US soldiers are saying on TV), and is trying to control remote territory of little value to us. -- Carl