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To: Amy J who wrote (219274)	2/15/2005 7:31:42 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1573925

Check out my response to Alighieri. I voted for Kerry because of poor execution in Iraq, not because I believed we should have never gone there in the first place. I believe democracy needs to be brought to the ME and if we are to achieve that goal, Iraq was the logical place to start. Now, the conversations that you and I have are a little different. Awhile back, I had said that if I had been President, my first act would have been to declare a Manhattan-scale project to reduce oil consumption and to build alternative fuels for cars. That was my first choice. However, if we don't plan to get off the oil dependency, then my second choice is to bring democracy to the ME. IMO bringing democracy to the ME is less selfish than the first option, but it is bloodier and more costly too. Anyway, the funny thing about Kerry that the liberals like to ignore is that he was not the flaming liberal that many liberals like to believe or that the Republicans tried to paint him as. In one of Kerry's roadshows, a liberal mathematician asked him a question he believed was a softball for his candidate: "Can you look us in the eye and tell us you'll bring our troops home after you get elected?" Kerry won me with his response. He said, "Sir, we are where we are. Bringing our troops home now would be compounding an already poor error of judgement. We need to stay long enough to finish the job we started." That is when I decided to vote for Kerry, because I realized he was man enough to say and do what he believed was right, regardless of what he knew the liberals wanted to hear. In addition, he was smart enough to understand what was at stake in Iraq. So I voted for him.