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br> Chilmark, Massachusetts /p>

There exists a tenet no one wants to posit. It is that knowingly promoting or causing a rapid exit from Iraq by American forces would lead directly to the deaths of many Iraqis who supported us as well as many innocents. Vietnam is the proof of the tenet. And terrorists would be handed a safe haven from which to continue their aggression against the West, a surmise not existing in Vietnam but clearly shown in the recent history of Afghanistan.

p>Liberals are afraid that, in their desire to quit Iraq, they will be shown to have blood on their hands for forcing the exit from Vietnam. This is why they dread the comparison. It is fair to say that most did not foresee the bloodshed resulting from the Vietnam exit, but some did, and they do have blood on their hands. Now these same liberals calling for a precipitous exit from Iraq would be shown to be intentionally complicit in the deaths of perhaps tens of thousands of people. If these folk argue they are trying to save American lives, let them call for a lowering of speed limits to forty miles per hour or the banning of cigarettes, or maybe even altering dangerous occupations. Let's just get to the real argument. br> -- Howard Lohmuller /p> p> Thank you American Spectator and thank you Mr. Bowman. br> -- Paul Neuman br> Atlanta, Georgia /p> p>

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