[Vision2020] End-game...

[Don Kaag]

Troy:

You're asking the wrong guy.

I thought that starting a war in Iraq was a stupid idea, not because I 
didn't think they had WMD's, and not because I thought we couldn't kick 
their butts, but because I was concerned with the end-game.  We started 
"building democracy" in Germany, Japan and S. Korea in 1945, and we're 
still there.

The Middle East is a nasty neighborhood.  I am concerned with losing 
many more American kids as long-term occupation troops to snipers and 
car-bombers than we will ever lose taking Baghdad and running Saddam 
Hussein, his loutish kids, and their Baathist thugs to ground.

But now that we are there, I support our military forces to the hilt, 
and we have no choice but to persevere and win it, because all of the 
alternatives are worse.

D.K.

On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 04:54 PM, Troy Merrill wrote:

> Mr. Kaag,
> If Iraq is such a joke, why did Bush declare it a clear and imminent 
> danger
> and loose the hounds of war?  I think you're trying to argue both 
> sides.
>
> Troy Merrill