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In WWII, when I was young, we knew and kept up to date with all the battles and outcomes of the war. The same can be said about Korea. We started to lose that when the media turned against their own country during the Vietnam war. Now, a plan to manage the information flow to the media about the doings of our troops is as important as the strategic plan against the enemy itself. Yet there is no plan, and the Administration is entirely defensive when it is even suggested that one might exist, even in part, or in beta test mode.

This administration, starting in the Oval Office, has wasted and damaged the most lethal, most efficient, most heroic military in the history of mankind. It is going to take another administration at least eight years to overcome the damage to the military that started in the term of George H. W. Bush, continued through Clinton, and has now been exacerbated by five years of combat under George Bush. If a dedicated and serious program to bring the military back up to strength in terms of manpower and equipment, a la the Reagan Administration, had been instituted on 9/12/2001, when the Congress would have voted almost unanimously for it, had been requested by the White House, we would be in a very different situation today.

p>Keep playing "Whack-a-mole" with the politicians, Quin. I think that I see some welts developing on their hard heads. br> -- Ken Shreve br> Ready to live free or die in my New Hampshire /p> p> Quin, this and your last article, Bush Isn't Dead Yet, indicate to me that the man simply doesn't have it in him for whatever reason, or he would already be doing it, you wouldn't feel compelled to write desperate articles about it, and we wouldn't be having this discussion. The Libby commutation was not evidence of the beginning of a political comeback, but simply the result of loyalty, and probably some influence from the Veep. I admire Bush for hanging in there on Iraq, but so much of the trouble he's had over it, and we're having now in the GOP could've been avoided if he were only a communicator, constantly and consistently promoting/defending his policy and keeping at least one step ahead of the Democrat hounds. That one characteristic is his fatal flaw and he can't change it. We still expect Reagan to reappear, to reincarnate as Bush. It isn't going to happen. He's just not Reagan, in so many ways, but definitely he's not Reagan as a communicator. It's frustrating, to say the least, when the most important foreign policy effort of our generation is hobbled by a bunch of leftist loonies who have successfully persuaded much of the public that it's a mistake, and the President appears unable to counter it. br> -- Mike Showalter br> Austin, Texas /p>

"..if we victoriously secure the peace." Huh?

That wimpy excuse for a "leader" inhabiting the White House is the worst disaster since Jimmy Carter -- candidly, his awful handling of almost everything ('cept a few judges and cutting taxes, which he wasn't able to make permanent...) relegates him to presidential infamy, nothing less.

Kindly stop putting that proverbial Smiley-Face on the betrayal-that-is-Bush.

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