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To: Sam who wrote (125520)	3/2/2004 11:09:54 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 281500

I have a feeling the below thread will last forever--lol! Subject 54767

To: Sam who wrote (125520)	3/3/2004 10:20:03 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

<The real problem is that there is no "favorable manner." I know you don't accept that, but so it goes.... That is why Bush ought to have finished the job with Afghanistan and with Al Qaeda before sending troops into Iraq.> This is, imo, entirely correct. But Hawk makes a valid point -- we do need to be thinking in terms of "what now?". We know it was a terrible mistake and we know it was done in an unethical manner -- but that does not answer the question of "what now?". As you point out, the options left to us are not good, but bad as they are we must turn our attention to "what do we do next?"

To: Sam who wrote (125520)	3/3/2004 1:49:26 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That is why Bush ought to have finished the job with Afghanistan and with Al Qaeda before sending troops into Iraq. And I guess we should have held off defeating Germany until we had actually defeated Japan (since Pearl Harbor is what dragged us into WWII)?? Or maybe we should focus on the Colombian cartels and ignore the Chinese Triads and Russian Mafia? Btw, what "flavor" of Al-Qaeda should we focus on first? After all, AQ is nothing more than a "venture capital" firm that supported quite a few terrorist organizations. Hawk