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To: michael97123 who wrote (22146)	12/30/2003 12:25:58 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793669

Every time i learn of an american casualty, i momentarily tip to the alternate view Even with zero casualties, it was the wrong approach, and smacks of opportuntism and profiteering, damaging to both domestic and worldwide credibility. We should all be answering the question what to do now?? Now that we are in this mess, the only path is to recognize mistakes and fix them. Creating security and local governance requires massive resources, the US has made those commitments, in spite of the criminal lack of oversight on the hundreds of billions (the Dem jellyfish rolled over on having an oversight office in Iraq), and even more criminal lack of public accountability in deaths and damage to Iraq. It is not too late to come clean, and encourage multinational participation, starting by firing Wolfowitz and others who incite terror and combat. The bellicose neocon line has been pure "f* you" confrontation, as if US military might is the same as moral authority, when wrongly used it is just the opposite. The state dept has been neutered (no offense to Colin <g>), even to the point that rebuilding Iraq was given to DOD to start with. I'll post a link to the Bremer-Blair flap. That's part of the entire fraudulent exercise that hasn't yet been owned up to. We're being fed lies from one end to the other, and until that stops the military action will be at cross-purposes with any goal of civilian peacekeeping. Neither the terrorists nor the rest of the world will respect the US enough to make this job possible. Some make the simpleminded claim that military might alone will beat terrorism, when in fact massive force as Rumsfeld admits, creates terrorist recruits, and no doubt faster than they can be neutralized. It's almost as if that's the goal of the administration. Bottom line -- everyone knows America's moral authority is more important in the war on terror than military authority. These are two separate things. One creates terror and massive profits, the other is difficult to create and easy to lose, but is the key to reduction in terrorism.