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To: michael97123 who wrote (382418)	5/4/2008 1:08:13 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1572888

Don't forget the people who were freed and no longer under Saddam's thumb, the best reason of all though I agree it doesn't fit the democrats' agenda.

To: michael97123 who wrote (382418)	5/4/2008 2:01:31 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572888

Regarding the mideast, one also might conclude that Bin Laden outsmarted us in Iraq. He threw limited resources at it and in retrospect probably was only looking to making our presence there more difficult than winning anything outright. bin Laden is audacious. He pulled off a huge coup well beyond his resources. It shocked the world. Now if we had responded correctly and gone underground to get him instead of starting two wars, he would be road kill. Instead we invaded two Muslim countries and managed to let him slip away......either by choice or by mistake. So all he had to do was send in minimal resources..........Muslims were so angered by American moves that they were more than willing to go to Iraq to fight.....and they did......from all over the ME. We couldn't have been more stupid had a kid been leading us.......and I suspect Bush is probably an overgrown kid when it comes to maturity. We even took his rhetoric about iraq being the new point of struggle with the west. So what happened? 5 years later the taliban and al Quaeda are reconstituted in afganistan and wahiristan and pakistan is far less ready, able or willing to resist them while afganistan takes a giant step backward. So who are the winners in the US invasion. That's right.....and we look like horse's asses. 1. Iran who solidifed the shiaa crescent and now has sort of protectorate in south iraq 2. al quaeda who might have duped us into making a committment in iraq so they could bog us down and prevent their defeat in afganistan and pakistan. 3. Pakistan not as a winner but as a state with constraints in fighting terrorism with musharif neutered and the secularists forced to partner with more of the religious pols after al quaeda took care of Bhutto. So to INODE and BRUMAR, i say nice job. This admin got nothing right so perhaps it was bush who has given islamic fascism its biggest boost. I like mccain so i wont call him mcsame just yet but unless he can breakaway from this failed policy of misunderstanding our enemie(s) and mis-under-estimating them, he will be just more of the same. McCain isn't the McSame......he's Bush lite. I am done with GOPers until they clean up their act and their party.