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br> Re: John Connly Walsh's Summer Blues in Baghdad : /p> p>Given its confounding defense of our military foray into Iraq, I must at least congratulate The American Spectator 's editorial integrity in publishing John Connly Walsh's latest, highly discouraging dispatch from Baghdad. Notwithstanding the incessant prattle and abstract issuances of the neoconservatives amongst us, the very best that can be said for the U.S.'s Iraqi action is that the administration in good faith made a bad decision on the basis of bad intelligence. br> -- Francis M. Hannon, Jr. br> Melrose, Massachusetts /p>

Why aren't our torturers better than theirs? Can you say Abu Ghraib? Can you say Gitmo? Can you say mainstream media? Can you say Democrat? They only way to defeat barbarians is to become barbaric. This worked wonders in WWII, both at the end of the war and during post-war occupation. We have yet to become ruthless and barbaric enough.

The two engineers you talked to are [dead wrong]. Yeah, there was no crime other than the state-sponsored crime committed by the Baathists and Saddam and his sons. What [fools]! What the hell is "low grade" terror? Is it "low grade" as long as it doesn't happen to you? Is it "low grade" as long as live you through it, albeit without a tongue or an ear or a hand? Is it "low grade" as long as they don't kill your mother or wife or daughter or sister after they gang rape her in front of you? And, what does this say about the minds of people that even consider this to be "low grade"?

You are right. We should have deployed all types of electronic surveillance equipment by now that would assist in detecting the roadside bomb. If cell phones are used to detonate the things then we could shut off cell phone service or at least create cell phone dead zones.

p>Exactly how long have they been working on this constitution? How long was it between the Magna Carta and the U.S. constitution? How long did we take to create our constitution? How long was it between the first amendment and the last one, so far?

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