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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Archie Meeties who wrote (8628)	6/4/2004 4:14:01 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

Start here: Message 20192764 Now: The war in Iraq was a screwup. Maybe intentional, maybe bad intelligence, but a scewup. The BEST that can realistically come of it is another Islamic theocracy like Iran. That may not be too bad; we do get sort of along with Iran now. The worst is a terrorist state run by something like al Qaeda. That probably means we go back in under worse circumstances. But making a has-been leftover '60s peacenik CIC at a time like this is sheer idiocy. As far as "Does that help? Men who haven't been in war should not lead the sons and daughters of others into it." is concerned, the ONLY way of implementing that would be a Constitutional amendment requring all Presidents to be combat vets. Are you ready for that? Do you REALLY think you could ever get it through 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states? Because if you can't, forget it. It was NEVER the intention of the Founders that all Presidents had to be former soldiers. For example, how are US interest best served by the new government? I don't see that US interests will be served by ANY gov't coming out of this mess. Not unless we keep at least several hundred thousand troops in Iraq to keep that gov't in place and then that will ne done at the cost of continuing strife and casualties.