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To: MrLucky who wrote (133735)	8/22/2005 1:17:01 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793648

Lucky, re: As far as Iraq is concerned and whether it will fall apart after we leave. Who knows. That's a good analytical starting place. Then we add in; "whether we're helping or hurting the course of democracy in Iraq by attempting to force feed it to them before their culture is ready-who knows?" And to finish the formulae we add in a little; "Whether we are harming American interests on a vast and generational scale while losing the lives of our young in the process-who knows?" And once committed to the "who knows" course we can, of course, ignore the warning signs that we're on a path toward failure because, "who knows" until we've really, abjectly, totally and irrevocably failed? There's always that moment for magical thinkers when good triumphs over evil and we snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. I don't want to continue to march toward the cliff and then wait 40 years for the architects of this poorly reasoned Iraqi adventure to wonder why they squandered so much on a sucker bet. .......... With respect to Hagel and the idea that he's using sound bites questioning the soundness of the war in Iraq to further his career, I don't follow your reasoning. He's a Republican senator from Nebraska and I can't see any way that his questioning the war in Iraq would help him in Nebraska, and certainly not in trying to secure the Republican bid for president. The Republican faithful still support Bush's war in Iraq policy by huge percentages and he has angered them greatly if the attacks here are any gauge. I see his questioning more as a "profiles in courage" placing of integrity over expedience. Am I missing something? Ed