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To: Sig who wrote (114128)	9/7/2003 11:29:04 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Sig; Re: "The Germans are occupying all of Europe, including Norway and Italy, part of North Africa, 1/3 of Russia, bombing London every night, and sinking 30 transport ships per week. Before appropriating any more money, Congress and the Nation want to know how much money it will take for the US to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific and the Germans in Europe and how long it will take." (1) You're comparing a situation where the US was attacked and forced to fight, to one where the US preemptively started a war. (2) Your president just went on national TV and weasel worded himself into asserting that we are going to stay the course cause things are going so well. In other words, he's still in prayer mode. (3) There was not only a plan to defeat both Germany and Japan, it was well known throughout this country and commonly discussed and debated by the citizenry. With Iraq, no one has any idea what it will take to empty a country of terrorists when fresh volunteers are streaming over the borders. That there are not enough troops there now, is obvious even to the militarily illiterate, but no one has any clue where the hundreds of thousands of replacement troops are going to come from. Hey, if this were 1943 the US could simply draft enough soldiers to fight the war. It's obvious that a draft will be what is required to win the war in Iraq, but there is no political will for it. That means that we're going to just fk around there with even fewer troops than we had in Vietnam. -- Carl