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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (131382)	5/4/2004 4:40:57 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

but I'd appreciate it if you'd take the next logical step of telling us any possible plan by which WE COULD get Iraq "socially rehabilitated...restructured...and created." I guess it all just depends on how much protesting and vilification of Bush folks like you are going to resort to should he decide to double, or even triple the number of folks operating in Iraq. Personally, I think it's that important that we do what ever is required to ensure regional stability. Remember, that was the mandate that the UN passed down in UNSC 678, 687..... all the way through with 1441.. The goal has been to restore regional security and stability to the region.. But even with Saddam gone, apparently the UN (and certainly France, Germany, and Russia) would seem to disagree.. And now Kerry is claiming that he would "internationalize" the matter? I am not very content with the prospect of seeing this end with the mere transfer of power from one despotic regime another.. I would say that more manpower is required. And had the UN stepped in and taken on its outlined burden of nation-building and conflict resolution and reconciliation, rather than permitting itself to be corrupted and rendered ineffective by the treachery of those would have preferred to keep Saddam in power, maybe such manpower requirements would not be necessary.. So we're in a tough spot now.. in light of these uncalled for abuses in that prison... Do we cut and run, or severely curtail our operations in the country? Or do we pull together, as a nation, forgetting the BS partisan election politics, and do what is actually the RIGHT THING.. To take a broken situation and IN UNITY decide that we must not fail to change the political and economic situation in that region.. But that depends more upon people like yourself than on people like me.. After all, you're the dissidents here.. I'm willing to back an increase of US troops... But the question is whether any of you folks have the will.. Most of you all are too busy despising Bush, or playing a blame game with your 20/20 hindsight.. But the time for blame is over.. It is now time for unified responses to the current turmoil, and the possibly greater turmoil that might occur.. But the key is for the world to see the US population rally behind the cause, not just the president. There is too much at stake for anyone to permit this to become a political campaign.. And I would like to see Kerry step to the plate and state exactly that.. Showing any lack of unity of will and purpose is merely an open invitation to continued turmoil. Hawk