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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (140193)	7/13/2004 6:38:49 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

the right thing to do...and yet ... the war was not worth it I don't find this confusing. Sometimes the right thing to do is very very costly, if you really want to do it right, so it's best not to do it. The Iraq war is such a thing.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (140193)	7/13/2004 10:24:27 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What I found strange was that within the same poll, 48% say going to war was the right thing to do (versus 46% against), and yet the same people say that the war was not worth it (60% versus 32%)!!! Talk about personal confusion. It's pretty difficult to explain the discrepancy without more information....but In general, I find that people have a very difficult time acknowledging, even to themselves, that they made a mistake. In that context, the discrepancy may make some sense. Even knowing that the war was not worth it you may still believe that your original decision to support the war was right. One would have to statistically isolate the groups of pro-war/anti-war and see how that tracks before and after to see if that applies here. jttmab