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To: combjelly who wrote (407731)	8/18/2008 2:20:08 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

> The thing that i-node in particular doesn't seem to understand is that you should bet the hand you actually hold. Well, if you have done any negotiating in your life, it isn't quite that simple. You ALWAYS want to negotiate from a position of strength when you can. When you're strong, you drive a hard bargain. When you're weak, you cannot. Sometimes you bluff, but you have to consider the stakes of the game as well as what losing a bluff does to your game in the future. But good negotiators know how to build a position out of nothing. And frankly, this is what happened with the missile defense placements. You said it yourself -- we had NOTHING -- yet they were able to turn it into something. I cannot begin to count the times you guys have been wrong on these matters. Take the recent defeat of al Sadr. Only a week before he was defeated, you and others on this thread (fed by the liberal media) were claiming he had won. On CNN and even FNC the pundits were saying, "Oh, Sadr comes out of this stronger". As it turned out of course, nothing could have been further from the truth.