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To: Sdgla who wrote (2056)	7/7/2007 1:22:47 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 4152

<Your premise that we acted unilaterally is wrong. Time to live in the present and move forward> On the contrary, your premise that we did not act unilaterally is wrong. We had no legal cause to invade Iraq -- and any attack that is undertaken without an actionable cause is a unilateral attack. If you walk up to a person on the street and hit them in the face it is a unilateral attack. If you bring along a few of your friends and beat up a person on the street it is a unilateral attack. The lawlessness of the attack isolated us diplomatically at a time when we needed as broad a coalition as possible. We tied one hand behind our back by unilaterally invading Iraq. Worse still, we had little if anything to gain and much to lose by invading Iraq. As for moving forward, right now we are going in circles and in no way moving forward. Drumming up excuses to pick a fight with Iran is not moving forward. We shot ourselves in the foot by invading Iraq. Now we are being pressured to take aim at our other foot. Shooting off another foot is not moving forward.