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Cut the drama, it does not work with me.

My post was simple fact. But drama, as in justifying a radical departure from accepted behavior, apparently works quite well with you--else why are you supporting a half-baked program? Or do you have an answer, that is not merely a wise crack for my argument:

Europe has more realistic concerns on that subject than we do. The area is in her back yard. We should be more focused on the present nuclear North Korea, a nation we were at war with in the 50s, and one that has never abandoned its hostility.

There are six nuclear powers, far, far closer to the Near and Middle Easts than are we. They do not need our presence to protect their interests. And our youth are not the playthings of theorists, in the grip of delusions of grandeur or messianic fantasies.

But let me get more specific, without using more bandwith: Iraq--2005.

William Flax

Your "argument" has as its template that the President of the United States, VP Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, Lieberman, McCain, the PM of GB, Australia, Italy, Israel, any many others, are all, "messianic" conspriazoids, prone to delusions, look upon the deaths of our soldiers as some sort of computer game.

I would call that dramatic, worthy of an OJ Juror.

This so-called "radical departure" policy has been debated for decades, and I have followed it closely, and is a good debate, worthy of serious discussion, and will obviously continue according to events on the ground, leaders that rise in the ME and Europe, the UN, the EU, ect, and how seriously they deal with the ME, and how their decisions rely on their natural need to protect and strengthen themselves, and their goal to reduce American power and influence.

Finally, if I were on your jury, you would know that I have also followed negotiations with NK for the past decades, and the past 3 years, so hopefully, you wouldn't try that talking point in your argument for a guilty verdict for the President.

My verdict is "not guilty", for the defendants listed above, I have seen no past displays of sinister, vile, or nefarious behaviors in them during their combined century in government, nor do I see them all waking up one morning, in a "deluded" state of mind, wanting to take over the world.

It is not logical, and I suppose we will have to agree to disagree.

See ya.