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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (174494)	8/25/2003 5:23:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584048

Ted, You make it sound like it was a conspiracy. Who said it was a conspiracy? More like a bandwagon effect, if you asked me. Saying its a "bandwagon effect" is being somewhat disingenuous. Like I said to Jim, a sizeable minority were opposed to the war. The amenable majority were willing to start the war only so long as certain conditions were met....one of several being the war must be sanctioned by the UN. Bush and Blair did everything they could to ignore the vocal minority........never once addressing their concerns. And they feared the majority into ignoring their own conditions for war and getting them to agree to go along with Bush's preemptive strike. It was disappointing to see how easily Americans were manipulated. To complain now that we are not united only invokes a laugh from me. To complain now that the world is against us is ridiculous. The world made very clear its position from the get go. And so long as Bush continues down his path unabated the fractiousness and rancor will grow. Like people, a nation needs to know when to call a spade a spade and to admit when its wrong. The longer the moment is prolonged, the greater the pain that will ensue.........we need look no further than the Vietnam War for proof of that claim. ted