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To: Road Walker who wrote (302128)	9/4/2006 1:50:59 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576880

That last story is seeping out in ever more incriminating detail, thanks to well-sourced chronicles like “Fiasco,” “Cobra II” and “Blood Money,” T. Christian Miller’s new account of the billions of dollars squandered and stolen in Iraq reconstruction. Still, Americans have notoriously short memories. The White House hopes that by Election Day it can induce amnesia about its failures in the Middle East as deftly as Mr. Rumsfeld (with an assist from John Mark Karr) helped upstage first-anniversary remembrances of Katrina. Imagine this...our military has to plan two missions each time, one being the real mission, kept secret until deployment day, and the other for iraqi army consumption until then. Even with this ploy, the real mission is inevitably compromised and leaked. The US army has to confiscate cell phones to keep the broadly infiltrated iraqi army from calling the bad guys just before a raid. It's a mess beyond description. And a hopeless one at that...our guys are dying for nothing out there. Society is so badly compromised that democracy is a silly bush dream. Al

To: Road Walker who wrote (302128)	9/4/2006 4:11:16 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576880

In his speech last week, Mr. Rumsfeld paraphrased Winston Churchill: Appeasing tyrants is “a bit like feeding a crocodile, hoping it would eat you last.” He can quote Churchill all he wants, but if he wants to self-righteously use that argument to smear others, the record shows that Mr. Rumsfeld cozied up to the crocodile of Baghdad as smarmily as anyone. To borrow the defense secretary’s own formulation, he suffers from moral confusion about Saddam. LOL. Ole rummy dares to place himself in the same light as Churchill........I guess he thinks the smell from conspiring with Saddam Hussein is long gone. Think again, ole rummy.