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To: michael97123 who wrote (151397)	11/10/2004 1:51:44 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<We know war is hell.> No we don't. We know nothing. We mourn our dead and we kill without remorse. We don't count their dead -- especially we don't count the innocent people who find themselves staring at the firepower of a "superpower" whose arsenal is matched only by its self-serving rhetoric about the virtues of our military action and the virtues of our political leaders. We don't have to face the consequences -- the people of Iraq do that every day and they pay by the score with their flesh and blood. We had choices on Iraq -- we made them and they are clear -- we will use lethal force and plenty of it. Everything else is just window dressing. With this policy we will lose this war, as we have been losing since the day we declared victory. This is not a war that will be determined by the "battle for Fallujah". It is a war for hearts and minds -- in that war we are hopelessly lost in the fog, and heading for defeat if we are not already there.