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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (155665)	1/8/2005 8:20:24 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This "Bush hatred" thing has been trumpeted continuously by W's true believers here for as long as I can remember. So, W really wanted a war in Iraq, and he got it, and now there we sit. People who really dig war apparently think this is a Good Thing. Others believe in a Trumanesque interpretation of where the buck ought to stop on the mess in Iraq. The left just can't grok the one true W definition of "personal responsibility", whatever that may be. A tragic shortcoming on their part, apparently.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (155665)	1/8/2005 8:31:45 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<"Iraq was just fine until America broke it" is how GST put it, I believe.> Actually that was Colin Powell -- Pottery Barn rules, if you break it you own it. We most certainly broke it and now unfortunately we own it -- including owning responsibility for the terrorists who found this to be a windfall opportunity to recruit and train a whole new generation of terrorists. Hundreds of billions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives and a US army stretched to the breaking point -- oh ya, I forgot, Saddam was a bad guy so it is a slam dunk that this invasion was both legitimate and in our bests interests.