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To: Sig who wrote (124915)	2/23/2004 11:21:45 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

<We hear every day about our casualties in Iraq, but how many times do we hear about the 5000 older Parisians who died from the heat, and how many times will we hear about these 320 deaths ?> We will hear about those 320 American deaths, the tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, the thousands of Americans wounded and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who find themselves stuck indefinitely in Iraq because we are ensnared in a politically motivated discretionary war unrelated to our national security. If this had been a military decision related to national security we would not be in Iraq. When American politicians send US citizens to their deaths for political reasons unrelated to national security, it should make the front page of every newspaper in the country -- and we should throw the bums out of office even if we can't say much in praise of the alternative. Unfortunately, this pointless sideshow keeps us from dealing with urgent and substantive social, economic and strategic issues and ties up strategic resources. We sent our military on a fools errand -- we are fools to give it the credence that so many on this thread seem to have a ceaseless desire to fabricate.