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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: 12 Jan 2025 17:01:34 -0000
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Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>Thanks to your buddy GWB.  It wasn't necessary or required to invade
>Iraq over some made up nuclear danger, but you were cheering him on.

I'd blame Chaney and Rumsfeld much more, even though GWB really was very
enthusiastic about it.  It confused the hell out of the generals and the
intelligence community, all of whom thought we were fighting Bin Laden
when they all had to do a complete turnaround and start fighting our ally.
It confused Saddam Hussein too, who thought the Americans were his ally
until the bombs actually started dropping.

>And Peter didn't advocate going to war;  economic damage in Russia
>will likely do the job of taking putin down eventually.

Russians are used to total economic failure, though.  It takes a lot.
In the meantime all kinds of things could happen.
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."