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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (203492)	4/20/2007 4:47:13 PM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793834

The US feels like it is safe, you cannot fight a terrorist when you know you are safe. You send nice young men to iraq, with vacation time, and regular trips home, and all kinds of stuff that means you are not serious in the war you are fighting. I would not have agreed with the first point a few years ago. I think I might now. But in this case the feeling of safe is a false sense of security. I agree with the second. One of the regulars from the weekly poker game I play in called this afternoon wanting to discuss the war and Cindy Sheehan's planned anti-war demonstration in the town I'm living in tomorrow. One of his questions was what is different this time from the last time we fought Iraqis. I told him the during the first Gulf War we declared victory and came home. This time we declared victory and forgot the next step we were supposed to take. We have been winging it half-assed ever since.