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To: GST who wrote (168646)	8/10/2005 11:13:37 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

And he has certainly rolled the dice for civil war in Iraq much more quickly than they needed to be rolled. Whatever else Bush has done that people on the left don't like, the lunacy of having wars for regime change really needs to be the main focus, I think, because it sets the worst precedent.

To: GST who wrote (168646)	8/11/2005 9:58:26 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

No End in Sight in Iraq By BOB HERBERT nytimes.com The news coming out of Iraq yesterday was that several more American soldiers had been killed. August's toll so far has been mind-numbing. For American troops, it's been one of the worst periods of the war. And yet there's still no sense of urgency within the Bush administration. The president is on vacation. He's down at the ranch riding his bicycle and clearing brush. The death toll for Americans has streaked past the 1,800 mark. The Iraqi dead are counted by the tens of thousands. But if Mr. Bush has experienced any regret about the carnage he set in motion when he launched the war, he's not showing it. Writing about Vietnam in the foreword to David Halberstam's book "The Best and the Brightest," Senator John McCain said: "It was a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to persevere through god-awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn't support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us pay." That point is no less relevant now. <MORE>