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To: LindyBill who wrote (108867)	7/30/2003 10:01:02 AM
From: Chas.	Respond to of 281500

Exactly, dead center perfect,right on the mark......... I only wish I had the ability to express in words what I feel the way Tony Blankley and Sen Liberman do. but they say it for me...thanks for the article Bill..... regards

To: LindyBill who wrote (108867)	7/30/2003 10:59:57 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 281500

Blankley presumes that the only possible policies are lay down dead or follow Bush. He's ridiculous, IMHO. When he writes, "it has been breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which elements of the media, the Democratic Party and our former allies in Europe have been attempting to turn our military victory in Iraq into a postwar debacle", he is confusing the message with the messenger. The "Democratic Party and our former allies" aren't turning "our military victory into a postwar debacle." Iraqs in a divided Iraq are. The country itself is a recipe for disaster. Guns and violence are everywhere. No one is "happy" about it, people are pissed. The Bush admin refused to work with anyone else (I know, I know, they went to the UN, right; as if that weren't just a mummery--I don't want to argue it, we both know what the other will say, so have your say if you wish and I will leave it be), insisted on their own way, were warned that they might be instigating a civil war or a quagmire rather than peace, and went ahead anyway. If they hadn't been so focussed on using the situation in Iraq to bolster their electoral opportunities, they could have worked diplomatically behind the scenes with other countries, and gotten serious support for serious policies, but that wasn't to be in this unbelievably political WH. They still might get their way, things might turn out OK. It's possible. And they might not. But whether or not they do has nothing to do with what Democrats or Europeans are saying. It has to do with what Iraqis and the Arab "street" which the neocons so flippantly dismiss are feeling and, rather predictably, doing.