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To: Neocon who wrote (138277)	6/29/2004 11:19:34 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq is not a "lesser evil" -- it is the result of an extremely bad set of foreign policy decisions. Invading Iraq was neither necessary nor wise. The unilateral manner of the action ensured that it would be costly. The systematic playing down of the scale of the undertaking doomed the undertaking -- from the looting to the lawlessness that has become the hallmark of Iraqi life today. We had choices. We made bad ones, including the choice to waive off the Geneva Conventions and give a green light for methods that led to US soldiers torturing prisoners. When you are driven by ideology instead of good judgement, these kinds of extraordinarily poor decisions are all too frequently the result.