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To: bentway who wrote (167254)	7/26/2005 2:16:18 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"The place is a mirror image of Vietnam, complete with the wrongheaded justifications for "staying the course"." Not. Vietnam was a civil war even if there was north and south. We read cold war when we should have seen civil war. There was no attack on us by any vietnamese. The North represented an asian communism similar to that of maoist china, though unpleasant for us to contemplate back then, at the allegiance of many folks there. South was always one failed regime after another. I was in grad school back then and wrote something like a prereeq for democracy in that part of asia was a full bowl of rice to eat every day. The terrorists who inhabit iraq today are our enemies. The fact that historians may judge this war to have been unwise does NOT mean that we are not in an important battle right now with the terrorists. One can be opposed to the war itself in 2003 and be for our efforts now because of what has transpired. But you continue to root for our defeat and the coming depression you talk about. I dont get it. You can be just as anti bush for getting us in but pro american enough and pro iraqi enough to root for a happy ending or at least a less unhappy one.