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To: michael97123 who wrote (147426)	10/8/2004 3:50:31 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, Michael, it does bother me that "Kerry skirted the war issue, often .... clouding his positions in nuanced language." But then I'm not the kind of person who could deal with being a politician and compromising my near term views in order to achieve long term objectives. I do think that he was correct if he assumed that the way to rid the country of a dangerous leadership team was to "play along" and bide his time. I say that because I believe that after 9/11 America didn't want a judge in charge, it wanted a hit man that would kill often and kill with pain. Having said that, I think the Bush approach is analogous to what happened to a member of my family who had cancer. She went to "alternative" medicine practicioners. They kept telling her that their methods worked but that they took faith, time and patience. If anyone questioned their methods they stated that the lack of "faith" that generated was, in itself, promoting the disease. The cancer got worse but the prescription of "faith, time and patience" never changed because, after all, who knew when the "cure" would take hold. She died. The clues were there for anyone to see but of course those with faith kept believing despite the facts. In Iraq the realities have made liars of those who propose the "cure" you support. The cancer is growing and the symptoms are killing our soldiers, killing civilians in Iraq, turning moderate enemies into radical enemies, creating fertile breeding grounds for terrorists, draining our treasures, eroding our leadership in the world and thus our effectiveness, and poisoning some of the principles that we have so loudly trumpeted as setting us apart from other great powers of the past. It's getting worse, not better, No one seems to have a good analysis of what went wrong and what to do about it except "work harder," and all the while they keep crying that those who question the "mission" are somehow the problem. Do you think that maybe it's time to finally examine the validity of the underlying assumptions upon which this disaster was grounded and to hold those who got us here responsible? Sometimes I think you do, and then you say something that makes me wonder if you buy into the "lack of faith is the problem" excuses. Ed