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To: longnshort who wrote (77022)	9/3/2006 4:37:44 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

longnshort, Please answer the question - If this struggle is so important, why is this the only war in which the President has not increased the size of the military and increased taxes to pay for it?

To: longnshort who wrote (77022)	9/3/2006 7:57:29 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

How does Bush know if we redeploy from Iraq that terrorism will take hold there, take over the country and turn it into a base of operations against the USA? Frankly, that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, not reality. What's happening in Iraq right now isn't about terrorism, it's about a civil war of Sunnis vs. Shias fighting over oil money and old tribal differences. I said Bush is full of it. He just doesn't want to admit he was wrong, lied to the American people to take us to war on false pretenses and totally botched the whole operation.

To: longnshort who wrote (77022)	9/3/2006 10:52:25 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

armitage is a liberal, lol? a reagan/gw liberal, lol "Armitage graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967. Upon graduation, he joined the United States Navy, initially holding the rank of ensign. He served on a destroyer stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War and volunteered to serve as an advisor to the Vietnamese riverine ("brown water") naval forces. In 1973, Armitage left active duty and joined the office of the U.S. Defense Attache in Saigon. After leaving Saigon in May 1975, Armitage came to Washington, DC to serve as a consultant for the United States Department of Defense. However, he was immediately sent overseas again, and served in Tehran, Iran until November 1976. Following this posting, he moved to Bangkok and operated an import/export business in the private sector for two years. In 1978, he returned to the U.S. and began work as an aide to Senator Bob Dole, and in late 1980 served as a foreign policy advisor to President-elect Ronald Reagan. Following this role, Armitage was made a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, a very high-ranking post in The Pentagon. He served in this position from 1981 to 1983. In June 1983, he was promoted to Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security. While there, he represented the Department of Defense in developing politico-military relationships and initiatives throughout the world, spearheaded U.S. Pacific security policy including the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-China security relationships, managed all Defense Department security assistance programs, and provided oversight of policies related to the law of the sea, U.S. special operations, and counter-terrorism. He played a leading role in Middle East Security Policies. Armitage left this post in 1989 to serve as a special negotiator for the President on military bases in the Philippines, and as a mediator on water issues in the Middle East. In 1991, he was appointed a special emissary to King Hussein of Jordan. Following this, he was sent to Europe with the title of ambassador; his assignment was to direct U.S. foreign aid to the states that had been formed out of the fallen Soviet Union. He served here until 1993, at which point he entered the private sector. During the 2000 U.S. Presidential election campaign, Armitage served as a foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush as part of a group led by Condoleezza Rice that called itself The Vulcans. The United States Senate confirmed him as Deputy Secretary of State on March 23, 2001; he was sworn in on March 26 of the same year.