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To: GST who wrote (159149)	3/16/2005 11:20:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

there is no shortage of instant revisionist neocon diehards. May I remind you that while Cheney was expecting a welcome in Iraq (which did happen from the vast majority of the population, and the army disbanded itself rather than fight), the UN and the Left was predicting Stalingrad-on-the-Tigris, hundreds of thousands of dead, millions of refugees, Saddam gassing our troops, the "Arab Street" rising in anti-American outrage all over the Arab world, etc, etc. Now ask yourself, which side got it nearer to right? If Shinseki was right (I don't know this and haven't seen a persuasive analysis of whether more troops could have headed off the the insurgency, or would simply have made for more casualties, thus louder calls from your side of the aisle to BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW, i.e. lose), it hardly means that the Left ever supported his arguments! Who argued that the Iraq war was a fair to good idea, but the Bush administration was making a terrible mistake in not listening to Shinseki? Anybody on the Left? Name, please! The Left quotes Shinseki now only because there is no consistency to the arguments of the Left except for 'Bush is an Idiot, quick, find another brickbat to throw!' From 'we can't invade because Saddam will gas our troops' to 'we KNEW there were no WMDS! Liar, Liar, pants on fire!' to 'See! Bush negligence led to dangerous NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPONENTS being stolen by terrorists!' with nary a blink in between turns.