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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (55326)	3/22/2008 1:44:22 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542171

As to Iraq, I believe that the action taken was required, was done amazingly well and will pay America back far more than even the huge costs incurred. I also could not still do not see any reasonable alternatives to the decision to take the action. Everything in my mental DNA tells me this. By advocating that US troops need to be in Iraq for the next 100 years, John McCain has himself admitted that even today it is too early to say "Mission Accomplished". Have the warring factions truly embraced one another? Judging from their failure to reach a political reconciliation, I would conclude not. In the meantime, the American public will have to consider the length of time their tax dollars would to be used to payoff the Iraqi warlords to cease and desist from violence. My friend, (geez I am sounding like McCain), recall the McCain flap with regards to Iran training AQ in Iran and sending them back to fight in Iraq. And then he went on to correct himself that it was not the AQ that Iran was training but that it was the insurgents. So here is the Obama campaign commercial during the General; elections. He will have a clip showing McCain on the stump saying that AQ is in Iraq and Obama refuting that the following day "I have news for John McCain. There is no Al Qaeda in Iraq." And his commercial will then have the clip of McCain going on a fact finding mission to Iraq, standing on Iraqi soil and correcting himself to say it is not Al Qaeda but insurgents. There is no Al Qaeda in Iraq Barack does not have to be a Senator for so many years. He does not have to visit Iraq. He already has the experience and the judgement that goes with it to be the President.