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To: Keith Feral who wrote (228220)	4/22/2007 10:21:08 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Ok that's your pov. I accept that you think that, and I can't imagine how we'd ever agree on this. I'm tired of the money we're wasting; I'm tired of the mess we've created; I'm tired of hearing people try to blame this all on the Iraqis when the invasion (and poor planning following said invasion) was quite clearly the step that got the civil war ball rolling. I want to promote American interests, and environments which help those interests, and I want a decent payback on very big overseas adventures. This little game in the ME does not satisfy my criteria. I find this a pretty good summation of some of the problems I have with this adventurism: Who really won in Iraq? Here is a list of 10 WINNERS and you don't see the US here. foreignpolicy.com When people embark on an adventure and it goes wrong through an act of God, you might be able to cut them some slack, if the act of God was unforeseeable. Unfortunately what happened in Iraq was foreseeable, though not by Mr. Bush and company. For that I think we can blame them for stupidity, as well as wasting taxpayer money, misleading the American people, pursuing interests contrary to American interests, and failing to remediate obvious failures.