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To: GST who wrote (159232)	3/17/2005 10:53:46 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If by "mainstream America" you mean the majority of Americans, the majority supported the war. You seem to forget that. The predictions of millions of refugees were hardly a fringe - unless you include the UN on the "fringe left", which actually is not that far off, I think. But not what you were thinking of. Nor were all the other concomitant predictions of disaster in any sense "fringe". The shouts of "quagmire" began as soon as the war started, and were sure that the Americans were going to be bogged down on their way to Baghdad, stopped by Saddam's North Vietnamese defenses. The BBC's war coverage was particular egregious for quagmire-calling. The had to backpedal in a big hurry when Baghdad fell! Just because you have amnesia, don't expect me to have it.