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To: Road Walker who wrote (329606)	3/20/2007 3:50:18 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1575396

JF, > But if it was "for the oil" and the PNAC stuff it's still hard to believe that they actually thought they could pull it off. I figured State of Denial might provide you with a reasonable explanation. It has for me. The devil is in the details. There is no way on earth that any world leader can have all of the details covered, or will always make the right decisions 100% of the time. Vision is only part of it. How they deal with the unexpected is a large part of what makes a truly great leader. Bush decided to deal with it by "staying the course." Worked well in 2004 over a flip-flopper (if that is even worth celebrating), but the real results are horrendous. So to me, it's very easy for me to believe that they thought they could pull it off. Why shouldn't they believe in it if they're the ones making the decision, even if it turned out to be an unwise one? Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (329606)	3/20/2007 9:18:47 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575396

I met an old man in a used bookstore ond day. He had terrible cataracts, and wanted me to help him find certain books. They were books on the history of warfare. I ended up giving him a ride back to his place, and he invited me in. I was looking for a book on Gettysburg. I played big historical hex grid war games then on huge maps, maps that filled entire rooms and games that might take months to complete with little 1/2 inch square cardboard "units". So, the old guy and I had an interest in war in common. It turned out he was a retired general who had served in Eisenhower's (as President) military. He'd been involved in the Army's Redstone missile project, the first attempt at a ICBM (the one that kept blowing up on the launch pad!). He told me that the big wars are ALWAYS over resources mostly. Water, grain, steel, oil, rubber - whatever, throughout history. And that countries prepare for wars YEARS before they launch them - but if you pay attention, you can see them coming. At the moment, we're the country that needs the resources and has the biggest military. Guess what that means?