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To: epicure who wrote (155636)	1/8/2005 4:41:29 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Lots of lefties saw his response post 9/11 as sort of hopeful Links please? All I heard was the "ask yourselves why they hate us" crowd, and pleas "not to bomb Afghanistan into the stone age", including dire predictions about "Afghanistan, death of empires". There were anti-war marches in the Fall of 2001, remember? They were tossed down the memory hole by 2002, but I remember them.

To: epicure who wrote (155636)	1/8/2005 10:46:32 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The most important factor for the left is that it sees we are in a war we did not need to be in, to accomplish that which is unlikely to be accomplished, at a cost which compromises our safety (internal and external), and our economy. You can't put it any more succinctly than that. But of course people like Nadine and many others insist on believing that critics of this war are either too short-sighted to see the "Big Picture" or too blinded by Bush-Bashing or America Bashing mentalities. And they still insist that Saddam really did have WMDs (you know, no one ever "explained" those trucks going to Syria), that the vast majority of Iraqis really do throw flowers at the US (they just do it in the safety of their own bedrooms, so that the Evil Ones don't kill them), and we really are winning this war (you know, all the good stuff that is going on just doesn't get reported by that looney leftist media). It's hard work, ya know, that's what it is, hard work, lol, as if That Man would know what hard work is.