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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (30038)10/13/2003 11:55:19 AM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
THE GENERAL ADVANCES

nypost.com



To: Knighty Tin who wrote (30038)7/1/2004 8:58:33 AM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
Bill Buckley, you and I know the war was a mistake

hillnews.com

<<...Surveying the whole political landscape, it is clear that a large factor in keeping support for the war as high as it is is the deep partisan political divide in the country, which makes opposing the war tantamount to opposing its author, President Bush, a step most Republicans simply aren’t willing to take.

At a certain point, for many, conflicts become self-justifying. We fight our enemies because our enemies are fighting us, quite apart from whether we should have gotten ourselves into the quarrel in the first place.

But picking apart the reasons why we got into Iraq in the first place and comparing what the administration said in 2002 with what we know in 2004, it is increasingly difficult not to conclude, as a majority of the American public and that founding father of modern conservatism have now concluded, that the whole enterprise was a mistake...>>