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To: jttmab who wrote (138571)	7/1/2004 9:44:32 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<...It's always a disappointment when someone makes a mistake. It's a large disappointment when thousands of people are killed and maimed from that mistake. And when you consider that terrorism has increased as a result; terrorist organization have grown and we've distanced ourselves from our real friends in the process .... "a mistake" seems to be a gross understatement...>> jttmab: I tend to agree with you...Thousands of innocent soldiers and Iraqis have died and independent experts claim that terrorism has increased since the Iraq War started...We have stirred up a hornets nest in The Middle East...Yet, our president NEVER seems to be willing to admit that he has made a major mistake...Johnson chose not to run again after VietNam was dragging him down...Would Bush (and the Chief Warhawk Cheney) ever have the courage to resign...? If CONgress were providing appropriate oversight we would have an Independent Counsel aggressively investigating how we went to war in Iraq the way we did (last time I checked we spent over $80 million U.S. tax dollars investigating Clinton...How much have we spent investigating Bush and Cheney..?)...War rips apart lives...We should only go to war as A LAST RESORT...I don't think Mr. Bush can honestly claim that there was an "imminent threat" coming from Iraq...We did NOT have to go to war...It was clearly an ELECTIVE war that has antagonized many of our allies and fueled Anti-Americanism around the world...By the end of 2004 we will have spent over $150 Billion U.S. tax dollars on this Iraqi adventure and what will we have accomplished...? Almost 55% of Americans now feel that "the situation in Iraq was not worth going to war over."...The Institute for Policy Studies in Washington has estimated that the long-term cost of the Iraqi war to every U.S. household will be over $3400. -s2@WiseLeadersDon'tRushIntoCostlyWarsTheyDON'ThaveToFight.com