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To: geode00 who wrote (218039)	2/12/2007 8:12:48 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is what you said NK = diplomacy. Iraq = crappola chaos. Gee, this just proves that even a country with nukes can be negotiated with. Imagine how a country without nukes, say Iraq and Iran and Syria, can be pushed around at the negotiations table. So all of this chaos and destruction and financial bankruptcy and generational anger Republicans have developed in Iraq are for no reason whatsoever. All it took was NEGOTIATIONS. This suggests - though I'm not entirely sure that you know what you're trying to say - a belief that indications of progress in the 6-party talks may be taken as evidence that Iraq could have been "pushed around at the negotiating table", or that Iran and Syria could be now. The comment "all it took was NEGOTIATIONS" suggests a rather naive confidence in the ability of talk to achieve results at all times and under all circumstances. Since Iraq obviously posed no threat to the US in March of 2003, exactly what did spending $750 BILLION with 50K wounded, 3100 KIA do that negotiations would not have done? Saddam wasn't going anywhere, he was writing western novels and getting old. He did have two nitwit sons but then the Bushies don't have much to write about in that department either. You may or may not have noticed, but I was a rather vocal opponent of the decision to invade Iraq. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to tell me here that I haven't already said myself, years ago. Still can't figure out why the US Military can't WIN in Iraq against a rag tag group of insurgents and militia in a third world country less than 1/10th our size? No? Well neither can I. Most of us figured that out a long time ago. If you haven't, that's your problem.