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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (105985)	2/21/2008 3:15:09 PM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

But Saddam had WMDs! Or maybe not. But Saddam was creating a haven for al Quaeda! Or maybe not. But removing Saddam will stabilize the region! Or maybe not. But Saddam was an evil dictator! Well maybe so, but we haven't taken out the other evil dictators at cost of TRILLIONS of dollars and thousands of American lives and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. No doubt that Bush went into Iraq on false pretenses, with a half-baked plan that has totally backfired. Bush has created a new Serbia, where the warring factions were kept in check by a ruthless dictator, and when the dictator was removed there was essentially civil war. Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. We are barely keeping a lid on the civil war, it's going to be ugly if we simply pull out. But it's ugly if we stay. Why anyone is in a rush to inherit this mess is beyond me.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (105985)	2/21/2008 6:33:18 PM
From: Metacomet	Respond to of 306849

"We are responsible for cleaning up the mess we made." Can't be done. THe US is intoxicated with the naive belief that we can fix anything. We cannot. Those folks do not want to think and act like us and we are insane to think that we can somehow change their beliefs, including their attitudes toward women, to become more acceptable to us. Our best bet now is to leave immediately and use the money we save to rebuild the defenses that the idiot in chief has managed to degrade with his war on nothing. The alternative is to continue to build resentment worldwide and then be defenseless when the fight for revenge inevitably comes to our shores.