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<P>Dan,</P>
<P>I've tried to ask you questions without calling you stupid,and you won't answer them. I've asked you about the way we are handling Iraq, specifically economic planning and how long our troops will remain there, and haven't had a reply yet. You support the war, I oppose it, but we're still there and we have to deal with it. </P>
<P>I don't want it to be a quagmire, and I am sure you don't either. What I've been trying to do is have a dialog about what is happening there and where we see it headed. Today you say that people like me need to try to talk without telling the folks I disagree with that they are wrong. Fine, I'm trying to do that, and now I'd be happy if you would respond. </P>
<P>I don't think we have any hope of setting up a democratic government if we prevent the new Iraqi government from making economic decisions, or from asking us to leave. I think that will prevent that government from having legitimacy with Iraqis, and will be seen as a puppet. If our government took orders from a foreign state, I think you would doubt that it is serving you. If you think my theories are wrong, I'm interested in knowing why.<BR><BR>Sunil</P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: "Dan Carscallen" <predator75@moscow.com>
<DIV></DIV>>To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] New and improved headlines
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:45:27 -0800
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<DIV></DIV>>Ted writes:
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<DIV></DIV>>". . . without Bush's huge campaign coffers, no victory.
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<DIV></DIV>>"Do I have it wrong? Please tell me I do!"
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<DIV></DIV>>seems the big coffers don't always pull it out, since the Dems put
<DIV></DIV>>double the money the Reps did into Ohio.
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<DIV></DIV>>While I'm not sure we need to do a lot of "healing", per se, I do think
<DIV></DIV>>the "left" (for lack of a better term) needs to work on how they get
<DIV></DIV>>their message out. Right now, it seems they are telling people they are
<DIV></DIV>>wrong for thinking differently than they do, and the only way the
<DIV></DIV>>opposition will be smart is if they vote the way the left says to.
<DIV></DIV>>Rather than calling people stupid and being so (seemingly) angry about
<DIV></DIV>>everything, sit down and talk to people about the differences and try to
<DIV></DIV>>convince them in a friendly way.
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<DIV></DIV>>In my not-so-political-scientific-type opinion, Kerry lost because he
<DIV></DIV>>kept saying how the other guy was bad and what he was doing wrong,
<DIV></DIV>>rather than telling what he was going to do ("I have a plan!") and
<DIV></DIV>>getting people to believe in him.
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<DIV></DIV>>But what do I know? I'm just a regular guy who'd rather be out in the
<DIV></DIV>>woods than doing anything political.
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<DIV></DIV>>DC
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