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To: GST who wrote (128053)	4/1/2004 11:00:05 AM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Iraq was a decisive victory. Saddam's regime was removed within weeks...> Was it? Many hundreds of dead young Americans might not agree with you if they were alive to reply to your comment. What kind of "victory" was achieved? Is there peace in the middle east? Is the United States safer against WMD? Has terrorism been uprooted and destroyed? Have our children stopped dying in Iraq? If this was a "decisive victory", I wonder what he would call a defeat? We are usually pretty good at destroying weak or weakened opponents, such as Grenada or Iraq. It's telling that we haven't defeated a country that had basically been disarmed. When one country has questionable motives and the other is fighting for a cause, it's usually trouble... (i.e. Vietnam) The Bushies can call this a "victory" as long as they're in power, I guess. Much of the public (at least the ones without their heads in the sand) and the International community know otherwise.