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To: Lane3 who wrote (34147)	3/12/2004 8:23:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

How will we know if Iraq turns out to have been a good move, either through foresight or skill or good luck, or a bad move, either through malfeasance or incompetence or bad luck? If Iraq is a stable country in five years, neither having internal civil wars nor exporting war and terrorism to its neighbors, but strong enough to defend itself from terrorist infiltration. If Iraq prospers in tolerable security. If its example encourages the Iranians to overthrow their mullahs, that would be real success. Success or failure are going to have to be argued about in hindsight.

To: Lane3 who wrote (34147)	3/12/2004 9:10:25 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

It really doesn't matter. People forget, change their minds, don't care, die. Istill don't know about Malcolm, King, Kennedy, Kennedy, Jack Ruby, or Herman Hess. I am not sure about what really happened to Lincoln. Hey, if the Natural Park Service sells books that say evolution is just One way of explaining things, what do I know? How many people do you know that have your depth of understanding of issues? George Carlin explained in all on Bill Mahar tonight on HBO. Catch the show. It has many replays. Rascal @Tinkle.com

To: Lane3 who wrote (34147)	3/13/2004 1:27:26 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793698

Re Iraq: criteria for success or failure If the Iraqi's are currently keeping more of their family and related family and friends, from the horrors of the raping rooms, the prisons from which the folks don't return, or the mass graves, as they have been used to for the last 20-30 years of Saddam's "rule", I would think the Iraqi's would think it was a success. It would be nice to believe that in 5 years or so they could be a contributing member of the earth's economy, and where their people would be free and a beacon for the Middle East. The murdering terrorists must really hate the thought of democracy.