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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (199093)	8/31/2004 12:19:58 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575205

"but he's still trying to run away from his anti-war record." Of course he is. To explain that would require more than a sentence or two. And that leaves him vulnerable to to Bush's "everything of importance can be explained in a single sentence that contains words of no more than two syllables". Oh yeah, and his trademark smirk... The fact of the matter is that a lot of reality is complicated. It requires tradeoffs, experience and negotiations. It is only black and white on TV(especially in old movies and series) and in Hollywood. But the Republicans, Reagan and afterwards, have pushed the concept that everything is really very simple and monochrome. It ain't. Computers might be binary, but that is only a convenience. Vietnam was very complicated. We learned some important wrong lessons from WWII, and we didn't learn in Korea that they were wrong. We compounded the errors in Vietnam, and that led to both our involvement in Vietnam and our eventual withdrawal. Listening to Colin Powell, I thought we had actually learned those lessons, but then Abu Ghraib came out...