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To: Neocon who wrote (151391)	11/10/2004 1:32:59 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Lets stop wasting our time on this. There is virtually no foreign policy discussion concerning Iraq on this thread -- just the daily trading of the same old, same old. Let the dead rest in peace and say a prayer for those who die each day, but save the propaganda for another time and another place.

To: Neocon who wrote (151391)	11/11/2004 12:38:11 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraqi exiles invited us in. The Kurds invited us in. Even some elements of the Shi'ite community invited us in, and a majority of Iraqis supported the overthrow of Saddam. That's utter BS and sanctimonious revisionism. The buildings were not quite finished falling when prominent hawks in Washington were already licking their lips, savoring the moment to try their grand experiment by invading Iraq. 9/11 gave them the pretext - they knew full well, and have admitted as much, that even if there was no link between 9/11 and Iraq, it was still a pretext they could, and would, exploit. The military were not massing on Iraq's borders in the early part of 2001, were they? No one gave a rats ass about what anyone in Iraq was going through then, not until a pretext came along...