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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (107224)	7/22/2003 7:54:10 PM
From: KyrosL	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, the "trapped" talk is not premature at all, IMO. In this Internet age where every single American casualty with all its gory details becomes the latest headline and dominates the news, until the next one, the political environment is radically different from the one in the Vietnam era. I think the administration is starting to figure that out. It's regrettable that guys like Rumsfeld have not yet figured it out. His comparison of the casualties in Iraq with the Washington DC murder rate make that clear -- I don't see ANY headlines about Washington DC murders on the Internet or on CNN.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (107224)	7/22/2003 9:27:17 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

If other countries agree to bail us out of this lousy position, then we might not be trapped. But why should they? Why should Germany, Russia and France come to our rescue now? Even India said no, without UN support. I have friends waiting to be deployed -- it is not just the number of deaths. Every person who is there is connected to a hundred people at home. It will become hard to recruit for the national guard when the result might be a year standing in the heat of Iraq waiting to be shot by a passerby on the street.