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p>LOL, br> -- Greg Barnard /p> p> WHY BOTHER? br> Re: Michael Roush's letter (under "From the Hague") in Reader Mail's American Muscle : /p>

Mike Roush is a typical, unthinking left-wing KOSsack akin to a five year old on the playground saying to a friends jab, "oh really, well you are one too."

His so-called "review of the record of conservatives" at the State Department proves the point. It's a ridiculous list starting with "the Taliban is regaining control in Afghanistan." Huh? What proof does he provide? None. Typical of the left, it's just their opinion based on their hatred of Bush. If Clinton was still president I'm sure Mike would be writing to proclaim how great his Afghanistan policies were. And given the fact we are at war, the enemy has this strange idea that they should fight back. I'm sure after Japan failed to surrender following the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Mike would have thought they were regaining control in the Pacific.

Then, "the reason for the surge in Iraq has yet to materialize" shows he finds his personal (and wrong) opinion are somehow concrete facts. I really doubt he even knows what the surge (simply reinforcements; why can't the press and libs use English?) policy really is. It's about security in urban areas and has succeeded in routing al-Qaeda in Iraq and created a working partnership with local leaders both Sunni and Shiite. And today I read a report that thousands of Iraqis are returning home because it's safer.

Middle East peace process? Yeah, it's all Bush's fault that the last 59 years has seen no progress at all. Growing power of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas? GROWING? That can't be defined but it's no greater or no less than the decades these connected groups have wrecked havoc in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, etc.

It's a bad thing we are working hard to keep the Turks and Kurds from going at it? It's about time someone did since this conflict has also been going on for decades if not centuries.

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