In a message dated 9/18/2004 8:38:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Did I say anything about the reconstruction? Anywhere? No. Of course not. That wasn't the topic at hand. For someone who just lectured me about being distracting, that was a pretty pathetic display. I like the way seperate the war from its after math by calling it the "reconstruction as if they are someone seperable. The problem with your arguements is that they focused on the statistics of our military superiority and ignored the after effects of the war. Did anyone really think we could not beat Sadaam head to head? Bush admitted that we were unprepared for the ease of our "victory". Does one really have to be as smart as Bill Clinton to figure out that the enemy might cut and run with its weapons, vanish into the wood work and resurface as a guerilla type force. If one only looks at the "war"- the "Misson Accomplished" one cannot actually succeed at what one wants to achieve unless what one wants to achieve is to simpy kick Sadaam butts to revenge daddy (no matter how many poor national guard suckers who don't have a Bush daddy have to die to do it). We took a big risk by starting this war. For it to succeed we had to do the reconstruction well. We needed a plan and we needed help from other countries. As it turns out we had no plan (oh yeah we had a plan but the administration ignored its own state department I'd say that your political arguments are just like your baseball arguments, Bob, all preconceived notions and irrational arguments to support what you already believe, no logical analysis or seeking to understand things. But your arguements are not logical because they confuse success with metrics used to attempt to measure success. Looking at baseball today, where Billy Beane, Theo Epstein, and Brian Cashman are doing pretty well as GMs and widely considered people to emulate, I know who's going to win that argument, too. Let us see who wins the big show. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
