Subj : Bush and Co Have GOT To G
To   : BOB BREED
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Fri Oct 22 2004 03:55 pm

-=> BOB BREED wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 BB> or more.  I do READ a lot though - this was a article in the
 BB> paper.

 WC> Reason I thought you watched PBS a lot is a
 WC> RAND Corp. consultant mentioned the same "High Noon" U.S.
 WC> mentality reaction to terrorism you mentioned on the program
 WC> I referred to.

 BB> Probably the same guy then.   He had a real handle on the issue
 BB> but of course ignored.  :)

That's what really made this particular show so spectacular.
It was fair and balanced giving each sides' spokepersons
for each view equal time switching from one view to the other.

One side used a lot of sound bites and rhetoric ( what else did they 
have? All their justifications for war have been proven fraudulent)
and the other side went into the details of the underlying problems 
that were well known even prior to the Iraq invasion.

Almost two years later the experts have been vindicated in almost
every respect as regards to Iraq while the administration war hawks 
have been shown to have gotten most everything wrong.

I thought I'd only see one _Vietnam_ in my lifetime but here
we're actually potentially in a far worse situation if it unfolds
as badly as it could :-(

Optimistic estimates pre-war had the U.S. out in as little as six months
with worst case views being pushed as 2 years.

Well two years is approaching, major combat with heavy weapons
continues in Iraqi cities and the latest optimistic
estimates are we could be out of Iraq in as little as four years :-(

The situation could improve ( unlikely IMO) or it could really snowball
into an as not yet recognized unprecidented disaster involving
the entire region.

The weapons buy back program the U.S. is pushing in Iraq just now
has some really bad flaws.

The U.S. is paying pretty stiff prices for machine guns, granade 
launchers and mortors and those funds could simply be used to purchase
MORE weapons or even fund terrorist attacks on U.S. soil if pooled
as a preplanned strategy.

Then too Patriot Act II stands lurking on the horizon :-(

Terrorists aren't the only threat to the U.S. and it's
democratic republic, our reactions to those threats pose
a most significant threat to our way of life and civil liberties.

At least a couple of provisions of The Patriot Act have been
overturned as unconstitutional.
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