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To: Road Walker who wrote (413477)	9/4/2008 9:56:51 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576806

John, Yes you do. I admit I do. Bush did some things right after 9/11. He followed the Clarke/Clinton plan to de-fund and isolate AQ. He went after them in Afghanistan... good start bad execution at the end. That truly weaken AQ and with a singular focus could have ended them. Then the Neo's used 9/11 as an excuse for their long time goal of invading and occupying Iraq. A huge strategic blunder, executed badly. This has made the 'bad guys' in the region much stronger, and left us much weaker politically (and financially) in the world. That part played into AQs hands 100%, they couldn't have asked for more as a result of 9/11. While I agree on the issue of invading Iraq, but if you look at AQ, they probably lost more members, volunteers, organizers and reputation in Iraq (and because of Iraq) than in Afghanistan - but at enormous cost to the US. Joe