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To: Taro who wrote (257229)	10/27/2005 11:17:52 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574417

news.yahoo.com Miers Withdraws Under Mounting Criticism AP - 18 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party."

To: Taro who wrote (257229)	10/27/2005 11:32:31 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574417

re: Americans perhaps do not appreciate that the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the effort to establish a democratic government in Iraq have been accomplished at relatively moderate cost "Relatively moderate cost"... tell that to the husband, wives, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, girlfriends, boyfriends, friends... of the victims. And, for what. Iraq is in chaos, and is the terrorist incubator to the world. Much worse than Lebanon, Afghanistan or Palestine in their prime.

To: Taro who wrote (257229)	10/27/2005 3:27:56 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574417

AS the aggregate number of American military fatalities in Iraq has crept up over the past 13 months - from 1,000 to 1,500 dead, and now to 2,000 - public support for the war has commensurately declined. With the nightly ghoulish news of improvised explosives and suicide bombers, Americans perhaps do not appreciate that the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the effort to establish a democratic government in Iraq have been accomplished at relatively moderate cost - two-thirds of the civilian fatalities incurred four years ago on the first day of the war against terrorism. Tell that to the parents, spouses, friends, sons and daughters of those who have died. Tell it to the 17K soldiers who are maimed for life. I doubt any of them will see the cost as "relatively modest".