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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (18145)	10/1/2004 11:02:01 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 90947

There were some obvious responses that Bush missed . . . I was disappointed that he didn't correct Kerry on the financial contributions to the Iraq effort comment - i.e. that we are paying 90% of the cost, $200 billion so far. The CBO says we've spent about $130 billion, not $200 billion, but also, Iraq's creditor nations have agreed to forgive some $80 billion of debts. That's a burden lifted that would have crippled the emerging free Iraq and not a contribution to be dismissed so lightly as Kerry has done. Likewise, Kerry's "90% of the casualties" dismisses the sacrifices of thousands of new Iraqi policemen and government officials who are fighting and dying for a free Iraq. But where he nailed Kerry (though he could have done it more eloquently) was on the inherent contradiction of his position. On the one hand, he says Iraq was and is a collosal mistake. On the other, he says to our troops, "follow me to victory." I can only ask, how do you ask a man to be the last one to die for a mistake?