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William Tucker's otherwise excellent "Iraq and Counterinsurgency" is marred by his mistaking Commodore (later rear-admiral) Matthew Perry, commander of the 1852 expedition to Japan for the victor of the Battle of Manila Bay, Admiral George Dewey, in 1898 also Commodore, but later rear-admiral.

p>Tucker also errs when he says "The Philippines were an isolated country on the other side of the world while Iraq is a cauldron of ethnic and sectarian conflict smack in the middle of the most volatile sector of the planet." This suggests that the Philippines were culturally and confessionally homogeneous, which could not be farther from the truth. br> -- Jeff Ewing /p> p> ROMNEY ROCKS, PART I br> Re: David Hogberg's Mitt's Epiphanies : /p> p>Romney was for states determining it [gay marriage] -- state legislators -- and so saw no reason for any constitutional amendments. His position changed after the courts all of a sudden grabbed the issue. You need to learn more about your subject before you write. I also think the author was actually referencing statements from the '94 campaign -- when it was even less a concern -- and not from 2002. Also, saying Romney considered himself a seasoned politician when he was running in '02 is just silly. He was a businessman. Your anti-Romney agenda is showing as bad as is the mainstream liberal press's. What is your real fear of Romney? That's the real question with you guys. Either that or you're just fools who aren't really very serious.

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