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To: Dale Baker who wrote (47653)	2/2/2008 11:34:40 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541381

<<<This isn't a traitorous minority viewpoint, it appears to be the majority voice of the US electorate.>>> This is the same electorate that gave George W Bush 90% approval rating at the time of vote to authorize him to go to war with Iraq. When repubs rally around McCain and the neocons go to work, the polls are going to change. That is inevitable.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (47653)	2/2/2008 11:35:35 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541381

The poor leadership of the democratic party regarding Iraq will leave a Clinton or Obama in a jam if they win the election. Both of these candidates will want to be re elected. Destroying the economy with a hasty exit from Iraq wont be in their best interests. The loss of Iraqi oil production today would be quite painful. During the next four years its importance will only grow. Imagine a plan to help grow production that might help stabilize world oil prices. What does troops home mean? We are still in Japan and Germany and neither have any oil. If the economy's the most important concern today for voters how will they feel if Iraqi oil production collapses if we leave too soon and Iraq goes into chaos? Of course the politicians did what the public wanted in the 30's and the world saw the worst war in the history of the planet. What would have been the relative price of an aggressive policy towards Hitler in the 1930's? Chaos in the Persian Gulf area could be just as devastating. Voters are not being advised of what is at stake with all this demagoging over "energy independence" , "green energy" and "exit Iraq". But maybe with the rebates our politicians are sending out with borrowed money from Arabs we can consume another product exported from OPEC or China.