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Iraq and Afghanistan are different.
Mary Anne — (archived)

And no, I don't think that no one would be killed if we had put more troops into Afghanistan. I do think that if we had had more people there longer, there might have been a chance to prevent the deterioration we are now seeing, and also a greater opportunity to catch some of the people who got away. But we'll never know now.

I was unaware that Sadr's militias were in control of any part of Iraq before the invasion. I understand that the group in and around Fallujah is probably composed of Ba'athists and their sympathizers, so yes, they were already in business, under different management.

I don't like Bush? I think he's doing a crummy job, yeah. Not liking him for his job performance is a lot different than personal antipathy. The multiple change of story surrounding the war in Iraq is enough to keep me from believing him ever again. And then there's his adminstration's approach to civil rights, which is a wholely different topic but a bigger sore spot for me than foreign policy is.

I'm not crazy about Kerry, either, because I haven't heard a message from him recently. He needs to get on with it. I'm going with a time-tested political maxim which I have applied before: When in doubt, vote against the incumbent.

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