----- Original Message ----- From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts
> > You need to read my comment in the context of my other post on "The Great > Divide." > > The difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is > this - the Republicans overwhelming believe in the merits of the Iraq War, > and the Iraq War would never have happened under the Democrats. It depends on what you mean by the merits. Lugar, the foreign relations committee chairman, for example, has extremely harsh words for the bungling of Iraq. He must know he is hurting Bush's re-election chances...he is criticizing Bush out of patriotism. Look at my pre-Iraq war comments...while its playing out worse than I thought, this is the type of outcome I expected. The people of Iraq are growing increasingly angry with the US. When asked when the US should leave, the two 40%-ish answers are now, and as soon as a legitimate government is established (i.e. Jan). A government will have to either ask us to leave, or risk being seen by most of the population as our tools. Indeed, John, the best hope you have for your view of foreign policy is for Kerry to be elected...in order to have both parties hit with the failure in Iraq. We may still somehow get lucky, but its not very likely. I can give numerous examples of how Iraq was horridly mismanaged, if you need it. But, lets just pick on a local one. We have Gautam, who had a job running a program in economic development unable to go over and help, while people close to his age who had no comparable experience were in charge of the economy.....its almost as if his JFK school of government experience was a minus instead of a plus. You can't hand such a difficult and delicate job over to interns and expect it to be run right. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
