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To: jttmab who wrote (66623)	5/22/2006 10:49:16 AM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Bush is running off at the mouth this a.m. talking up this new Iraqi government. Just great...these people cannot even venture outside of the Green Zone which btw is occupied and "governed" by us.

To: jttmab who wrote (66623)	5/22/2006 1:57:26 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 173976

”The Administration uses the domino theory that Iraq will be the model of democracy in the mid-East and surrounding countries will clamor for democracy and we will all live happily ever after.” I don’t know any credible person, living inside a democracy or out, who can genuinely claim to have lived a ‘happily ever after’ type of life. The best we can do is hope. At the core of that hope is the desire to live well and be well. The context of life for human beings is a social one, so there is no living well and being well except as it is given meaningfulness via a social condition shared with our fellow human beings. As such the healthy fabric of humanity is maintained by individuals living an autonomous life of liberty in a just society amongst others at the expense of none. This is what is demanded of us to live in a purposeful realm of well-being. We cannot legitimately claim there is even a flicker of hope for our own well being as social members of the greater humanity, as long as there is one oppressed member of humanity living under brutal tyranny. It is essentially our struggle, since our existence may at times commemorate virtue and honor, while simultaneously being provoked by base and vile injustices. We must claim autonomy, direction, and responsibility for the condition of a unique soul, while maintaining a universal obligation toward our relationship with the one and the many of creation.

To: jttmab who wrote (66623)	5/29/2006 9:27:36 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Getting Saddam out of power was a good start. Al Qaeda was interested in and in Iraq before the war, and remains highly interested in and in Iraq. You've got a lot of doom and gloom "ifs" at the end there, which are just unrealistic enough to fail to recognize that the biggest if of the bunch - i.e. if global terrorism continues to increase - is likely lessened (to a reasonable mind like mine) thanks to the war in Iraq and a strong stance elsewhere in the future. Dan B.