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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (9084)	1/16/2006 12:28:29 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 541513

Mary: that was an excellent analysis...Thanks for posting your views -- and I agree with many of them. We clearly have a President who lives in a bubble and who shoots first and asks questions later. The United States CAN'T afford to antagonize too many of the radical factions in the nuclear Pakistan. Our CIA may have very good intentions BUT it's track record in the intelligence arena is not good. More importantly, we saw that the unvarnished CIA intelligence about the threat that Saddam was (BEFORE our invasion of Iraq) never really was communicated to the President. Mr Bush NEVER did seek out the critics of the pre-emptive strike plan...He NEVER did seek to understand how challenging and expensive occupying a Middle East nation would be...The NeoCONS that advised the President are detached from the real world and they don't understand history or what it might really take to help create a democracy in Iraq. They also NEVER really cautioned Mr. Bush about the significant risks that our invasion of Iraq would pose to our long-term security. Independent reports have now confirmed that we have created MORE terrorists than we have eliminated. A Nobel Prize winner has recently estimated that the Quagmire in Iraq will cost over one trillion U.S. tax dollars -- that's a tremendous amount of money...It's sorta like a sea anchor out behind our economy. -s2@DoYouFeelAnySaferToday.com