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To: Alighieri who wrote (174340)	8/22/2003 5:50:49 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1577019

Al, The terrorist truck bomb that blew up the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad this week also blew up the pretensions of an arrogant strategy that assumed the United States could do nation-building on the cheap. So according to E. J. Dionne, the blowing up of the U.N. headquarters proves that America can't nation-build without the U.N. What a maroon. Tenchusatsu

To: Alighieri who wrote (174340)	8/22/2003 6:58:27 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577019

Cheney replied: "Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators." The vice president said he knew this because he and the president had met with "various groups and individuals, people who have devoted their lives from the outside to trying to change things inside Iraq. . . . The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that." I don't think Cheney and the others get it at all and like D. Ray, they have an elaborate filtering and denial system in play. I think the only way to stop this craziness is get them out of office. The opposition has a year in which to do that. Unfortunately, its going to be tough without a great leader to really around. ted

To: Alighieri who wrote (174340)	8/22/2003 7:57:23 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577019

Can we now please admit that the Bush administration's policies in Iraq are a terrible failure? Of course, Dionne, an extremist liberal, wants to hear someone say it is a terrible failure. That would be great for the liberals politically. But the reality is that it in no way resembles a failure. We have liberated 22M people, are in the process of establishing a democracy which will radically rearrange the Middle East for the better. It is totally unreasonable to think it might take only a couple of months. Any sensible analysis will require us to look at the situation a couple YEARS down the road, not a couple of months. It is just like when the liberals went into a panic during the sandstorm. Liberals are incompetent in these matters, and this is the specific reason why. They simply react to everything that happens by assuming the worst. A liberal will cut and run at the earliest sign of difficulty. That's reality, and totally explains why we should NEVER elect liberals to run the country.