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To: unclewest who wrote (135970)	6/8/2004 1:09:47 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<No One Asked Us, By Major Stan Coerr, USMCR >> I know one man who will give you the same story. A Lt. Commander in the USNR Regularly an Airline pilot. Flew the most missions off his Carrier in the Gulf. Hazardous night landings. Led the flight of planes in a local airshow last month. He has accomplished more than most people in a lifetime. What is an MWD? He does not care. He has given the Iraqis a chance to lead a better life than to seek excitement setting fuzes on IED's to kill other Iraqis. Can they handle freedom and democracy? Time will tell.We will keep the bad guys away, give them a fair chance. As soon as Al Sadr finds a position or voice however small in Iraqi affairs he will dump the thugs he employs.Or else go to jail. Sig

To: unclewest who wrote (135970)	6/8/2004 2:06:34 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We can't overthrow every murderous tyrant in the world, but when we can, we should. Take it from someone who was there, and who stood to lose everything. We must, and will, stay the course. We owe it to the Iraqis, and to the world. Uncle, that Major, soon to be Lt. Colonel, went to Harvard and got a master's degree in government, and the basis of his view that we did the right thing is that we "should...overthrow every murderous tyrant in the world...when we can?" It seems that he's doing a rerun of the "Saddam was a very bad monster" justification. He's also confirming that he, and others he's speaking for, put their lives on the line and aren't complaining. Other than that, I don't see anything new or especially insightful in his editorial opinion. Am I missing something?