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To: stockman_scott who wrote (123057)	1/12/2004 12:15:39 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi stockman_scott; Re: "What will our President say to the families who have lost soldiers in Iraq?" The next version of the story is that we're there to help the Iraqi people. I would guess that the Administration truly is working on hearts and minds. But it's the hearts and minds of the American voters, rather than the Iraqis, that they really care about. Stuff may be getting to the point where it cannot be ignored. My local radio station is starting its hourly news reports with the O'Neil claim that the Bush administration started planning to have a war with Iraq from the first month in power, long before 9/11 gave them real reason to do it. If the war had gone well, all would be forgiven. By the way, did you read this one: #reply-19676916 ? I finished the book and it gets worse. By the end, the author is planning to move his killing from Algeria to France, with the targets being "metropolitan" French citizens. Also, do note that the disastrous Algerian war was prosecuted equally unlawfully by both the right and left wings of the French government. (Sort of reminiscent of how the Republicans and Democrats both prosecuted the Vietnamese war.) -- Carl

To: stockman_scott who wrote (123057)	1/12/2004 8:55:35 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What will our President say to the families who have lost soldiers in Iraq...? I'm still wondering what we're supposed to say to the families of 300,000 dead Iraqi shiites who thought the US would support their efforts to oust Saddam Hussein in 1991.. And I wonder what we're supposed to say to the families of the 3,000 people who lost their lives on 9/11 because the previous administration failed to recognize the threat that Al-Qaeda, and terrorist states, posed to the security of the United States... And if the families of those soldiers didn't already know, it's pretty likely that their sons and daughters knew what they were laying their lives on the line for... The only thing worse is to suddenly say that creating positive and constructive change and economic opportunity for moderate forces in the region isn't worth the cost... Because if we don't, the cost this nation bears in later years will likely be even greater. Hawk