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To: LindyBill who wrote (185272)	11/5/2006 2:29:13 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793743

I just finished reading Jim Webb’s “Lost Soldiers.” It is a good book and a serious book. A book that I heartily recommend to everyone that posts on this thread. While I would be interested is getting some feedback from someone who has read the book and recently spent some time in Vietnam, my guess is that Webb got it right. I did not find anything particularly objectionable in the book. There is virtually no sex and the one scene that was referenced by the Allen campaign is brief and inconsequential. I’ve read worse in the New Yorker. It was a silly issue that the Allen people should have ignored. If I had the chance to spend an afternoon with either George Allen or Jim Webb, I would pick Webb. Webb is far more interesting and real. I would love to shake the hand of a man who wouldn’t shake John Kerry’s hand for 20 years. Poor George Allen. While he is not the bad guy portrayed in the Washington Posts, he is a career politician, which means that he has tried to bleach out most of his personality and history. I have a weakness Senators who are independent and have nuance; politicians who can be a bit politically incorrect. If I lived in Virginia, I would be very tempted to vote for Webb. However, I would vote for Allen because it is critically important for the Republicans to retain the Senate. It is too bad that Webb felt compelled to leave the Republican Party, though the point made by the blog entry you posted earlier today is right on the mark. As a Democrat, Webb’s views are “acceptable,” perhaps quaint. As a Republican, he would be a Cro-Magnon (though proud of it). Edit: It has been almost thirty years since I read "Fields of Fire," but I still remember being blown away by it.