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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (74609)	10/3/2004 11:33:14 AM
From: Bris	Respond to of 793964

We have to be able to state the two positions as clearly as possible and let the voters decide. The voters will decide and tell Kerry he is wrong.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (74609)	10/3/2004 3:19:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

He agrees with Colin Powell. It is the Pottery Barn rule. You break it and you own it. Iraq is broken. We can not bail out. We have to fix it before we leave. I know that Kerry has said this on ocassion, but then, Kerry has said just about everything one could say on Iraq at various times. So how do you decide what to believe will be Kerry's real policy? I go with my knowledge of the man, which I think is more than most peoples' since I live in Massachusetts. Staying the course in any war is a test of will. Kerry generally flunks tests of wills, and his fellow Massachusetts politicians have the measure of him. I cannot remember Kerry picking out and sticking to any unpopular course of action. But trimming and temporizing and changing positions? Lots of it. Not a good trait in a war leader. Furthermore, Kerry's defining experience was Vietnam. It may be a semi-fictionalized experience as his fellow vets charge, but no matter, it is still his defining experience. What moral does he draw from Vietnam? "How do you ask the someone to be the last man to die for a mistake?" To me that means only one thing - bail, and bail fast. Don't throw good money after bad.