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To: SilentZ who wrote (195510)7/23/2004 12:13:08 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577953
 
Z, What did you think before the war, though, when we were hearing sound bites from the admin telling us that this would be a cakewalk, that there was no history of ethnic strife, that the war would pay for itself?

I believed them for the most part. Turns out they, and thus I, were wrong.

Can't say for sure whether I would have still supported the war had the administration been more realistic about the costs, both in terms of lives and money. I think I would have, if only out of admiration for such candor, but I doubt many other people would have as well.

Tenchusatsu



To: SilentZ who wrote (195510)7/23/2004 12:34:31 AM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577953
 
RE:"That's fair. What did you think before the war, though, when we were hearing sound bites from the admin telling us that this would be a cakewalk, that there was no history of ethnic strife, that the war would pay for itself"

It would if we just took oil in kind.


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