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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (126316)	12/5/2009 1:50:31 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542201

"In my view, if he's actually planning to get out and this latest "surge" is a gambit to attempt the practical goals that I see as achievable, and if I'm right in believing that a withdrawal at this time would critically limit the possibility of achieving important domestic breakthroughs on health care, climate protection, judicial appointments, restructuring of the power of lobbyists, etc, and would tear the country apart, then I can accept accept the cost of the Afghan surge with a heavy heart." It's possibly an unfair question, but would you sill come down on the same side if you could be fairly certain in 18 months 800 more Americans will have died and 1500 more have been wounded?