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To: ManyMoose who wrote (63865)	5/6/2008 7:39:43 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542247

If you think about the way this war was "sold"- the US is in danger, Iraq oil will pay for it, we won't be there long... None of it worked out. People don't protest for fun, for the most part. When you get whole swathes of the electorate (in this case a large majority) hating a war, young and old, rich and poor, it's sometimes because there is something fundamentally wrong with the war. There aren't even that many people protesting any more, even though a majority now disapprove of the war and Bush's handling of it- no one believes Bush cares what the country thinks. Cheney has told us what he thinks of the public's will "so". Great. And just because people do not agree with you, does not mean they do not understand the consequences of their actions. The "consequences" of actions are not set in stone- they amount to probabilities. That you may see consequences playing out one way, does not mean they will, or even that you are right about the likelihood of a given result.