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To: KLP who wrote (171561)	9/30/2005 3:42:30 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Karen, of course I believe the holocost occurred and I surely believe that Saddam Hussein was a brutal leader and a bad man. But that's not what we were discussing. If you'll recall the questions concerned America's interests, what we could and could not do with respect to "fixing" other nation's problems and whether the "war in Iraq," as now defined by the Bush people, was winnable. Talking about what a bad guy Saddam Hussein was simply obscures those vitally important questions. And saying that we'll know in a few years, no matter what it is that we'll know, does not constitute an adequate basis for failing to act NOW based on a logical and accurate assessment of the information currently available. After all, right NOW men and women are dying in Iraq and we're digging a deeper hole there. If it's futile or, worse yet, counterproductive we should find a way to make it stop, shouldn't we? Ed