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To: Brumar89 who wrote (9422)	7/24/2006 3:19:33 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 14758

Those were a great "few words." Your comments are much in the vein of the "butterfly effect", that every trivial event resonates across the globe with consequences upon consequences. A butterfly flapping its wings ultimately may result in a tsunami half way across the world. You can never unravel history piece by piece and divine what would have happened if "X" had not occurred. One thing we know for sure is that America has been spared terrorist attacks for five years, even though they have gone on in Spain, Britain, Indonesia, Pakistan, etc. Would that be the case if we had not gone into Iraq? We can never know.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (9422)	7/24/2006 5:21:49 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14758

If Iraq slides more deeply in to civil war I will say it's an easy call to say those of us who warned of civil war were right. The loss of life will be even more horrendous than it already has been. And in starting a civil war we will have been more than useless- we will actually have been the agents of harm. I cannot possibly blame the soldiers, they were following orders- but I can certainly blame the folks who failed to understand the simmering ethnic tensions of Iraq. I've ALWAYS said the main reason I was against the war was the high likelihood of civil war, or an anti American government (even worse than Saddam) taking over in Iraq. I think my assessment of the risks was far better than this administration's assessment. Men whose lives have been spent in a war that makes things worse, have had their lives wasted. I don't know how else you could see that. The only thing you can do is learn from it, and vow to be more careful with our soldiers in the future.