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To: one_less who wrote (169932)	8/26/2005 3:28:19 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I have no idea what to make of your post. The threat posed by the Al-Mahdi Army is quite real according to my description of it. First, let me help you try to understand my post. If the "threat posed by the Al-Mahdi Army is quite real" then what we're doing in Iraq is fertilizing and watering it with the blood of our soldiers. We've destabilized the region, we've created a power vacuum which is being filled by the leaders of militant radical groups and we've created a "circle the Islam wagons" atmoshpere in the entire region. So don't talk to me about "noble" motives unless you can talk to me about the doability of the mission. So far the effort to use conventional military force and diplomatic pressure to jump start a "liberal democratic process" in the middle east seems to be fostering a fundamentalist Islamic power movement in the Middle East. That doesn't make Casey's death any less noble, but it does make it horribly wasteful. Second, do you always attribute base political motives to those who don't see things your way? I ask because I wonder what I wrote to make you conclude; "..to you the big picture seems to be which US party 'wins' in the next round of elections (a tiny and narrow focus IMO) ... rah rah shish kum bah?" Ed