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To: Brumar89 who wrote (377726)	4/11/2008 1:27:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577100

Then why isn't good news resented and angrily rejected? I have a hard time believing I have to explain this to you. You all see a decline in deaths in Iraq for a few months and think the war has been won or at least its going in the right direction. Its the equivalent of seeing someone with cancer on a good day and thinking they have won their fight with cancer. What you refuse to acknowledge are the overwhelming facts around the war in Iraq which suggest it can't be won in the classic way. In fact, it could go the way its currently going for decades. That's the history of the ME......ongoing conflicts that never get resolved to anyone's satisfaction. In general, liberals know that.......they tend to have more exposure to foreign cultures; have a better understanding of the background history in a region. Do you know what my reaction was when Bush first proposed invading Iraq? I thought it was a joke.....well not a joke but I thought he was pushing an invasion in Iraq to finesse something else. I couldn't imagine in a million years that he was serious. When I finally figured out he was serious, I was aghast.....I thought the world had gone nuts. Ask people who were here at the time...JF, CF, i=node etc......they know what I was thinking. I grew up mostly in the North or on the West coast. People like Chris, or CF or JF understand you guys better than I do. You're as foreign to me as an Afghan or a Pakistani. I understand Europeans and Israelis better than I understand you guys. That's the truth. That's why I see the current conflict between us as a real dilemma. I had hoped that Obama would pull us together but that is looking less and less likely. So I don't know where it will all end but its not looking good.