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To: LindyBill who wrote (15275)	11/5/2003 4:54:46 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793622

The hardest part of this is to keep this pressure on while a lot of people here and overseas holler. I don't know. Momentum is a powerful force. Turning things around is monumental. That's why I have so much regard for Reagan's presidency--because he bucked the momentum of the Uncle Sugar hand-out mentality and got us headed in a different direction. No matter what else he might have done right or wrong, that was paradigm shifting and is worthy of recognition. Back on topic, simple inertia keeps us going in Iraq although the momentum can be slowed by the friction of all that hollering. Seriously, though, I think we'd get a lot less hollering and a lot more support if the WH and its supporters could see their way clear to concede a few mistakes rather than continuing to cop that attitude. It would soften the opposition and enable an approach of "well, we're in it now so let's pull together." Of course, it would take statesmanship to do that, a quality not common among banty roosters. Particularly in election years. The major problem we have is that we don't have access to the Intel to know which move we need to make, except to say, "keep rooting out the Terrorists." Yes, it would be hard to opine much given our lack of intel.