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To: Dale Baker who wrote (30508)	10/27/2006 10:52:16 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 541477

Good point.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (30508)	10/27/2006 1:33:05 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541477

I feel for the people who say stuff like this- let's face it, they made a mistake; it's gone terribly wrong, and it's no fun to have a bunch of people running after you hammering you for your mistake. On the other hand, the point gets lost that disagreeing over TACTICS, isn't disloyal and it isn't treason. If the government is on the wrong track, and is killing men when it doesn't have to (ours and theirs), then it seems to me it makes sense (and is loyal) to speak up. What I think happens is that the people who are wrong are so upset about being wrong, that they let their own angst about the whole situation push them in to concluding that being pushed about tactics, and logistics, is the same thing as having the press helping the enemy. I am sure that the people in the admin, or at least some of them, are truly upset and conflicted by the situation, but I also think that their tendency to strike out at legitimate critics of the mechanics of the war is wearing thin. On the other hand, I do think this sort of rhetoric is helping democrats, since I think many people in this country are on the other side of the fence form the administration on this issue- so maybe I don't want them to stop doing what they're doing...