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[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:07:18PM -0500, John Karns wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, mso at oz.net wrote:
> 
> >But we seem to have evolved to the point where "Stay the course!" and
> >"Bring the troops home now!" are the only alternatives capable of
> >galvanizing sufficient people to make it happen.  Perhaps that's another
> >Vietnam echo.)
> 
> I stumbled across an article just the other day - no doubt just one of
> many such to be found on the 'net these days:
> 
> http://gnn.tv/headlines/4470/Juan_Cole_s_10_Point_Plan_for_U_S_Troop_Withdrawal_From_Iraq
> 
> aliased to:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/d8mfw
> 
> ... not to say that it's representative of popular opinion.
> 
> But if I had to choose from one of the two alternatives you mention, I'd
> definitely go with the latter one.

Yeah; strong ditto. I volunteered and went into the Army during the Iran
hostage crisis because I felt that America needed defending; I'm not
alone [1] now in saying that this war is nothing more than mass murder -
of our people and of Iraqi civilans - that will cost us, big, in the
short and the long term.

Nor are you alone in choosing the latter option. Lt. General William E.
Odom, Ret. - "What?s wrong with cutting and running?":

http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00129

He's got just a few credentials in the matter:

``
 Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a Senior
 Fellow with Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale University. He was
 Director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988. From 1981
 to 1985, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the
 Army's senior intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, he was Military
 Assistant to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs,
 Zbigniew Brzezinski.
''


[1] http://takeittokarl.blogspot.com/


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