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Roscoe,
I agree with your comment about Bin Laden - we do need to be going after him and others like him. Killing him (if he is not already dead) would only have the effect of removing one of their smarter leaders. Someone else would pop up to replace him. We need to be going after the entire organisation from all avenues of attack. This includes military and non-military.

Bernie,
I've given you solutions before and you do not understand them. You are quite fond of telling me that the only thing that will work is a bigger hammer.

We have squandered the goodwill of the world because of people like you, and that makes our job of finding the real bad guys harder.

We have thrown away billions of dollars and thousands of lives to gain a country that will only end up falling into Irans sphere of influence. That is also because of people like you.

People like you took a bad-but-workable situation (Hussein and WMD) and turned it into a nightmare with no good solution.

You call me un-American, and yet you are too chickensh!t to defend your position and tell me why Scowcroft was wrong. It is not water under the bridge because people like you are still ruining things. As far as I am concerned people like you no longer have any place in the national debate as to what to do, as you have only proven that you only know how to make things worse. I really wish that people like you would just shut up, get out of the way, and let people like Scowcroft and Baker implement their suggestions.

And yes, I agree with just about all of their suggestions. There are a couple I disagree with that have to do with Iraqi decision making that should not involve us. Interestingly, they made some suggestions about policing which you shoot down over and over again. BTW, I was making the exact same suggestion regarding policing as the ISG a couple of years before they did. Have you even read the ISG report?

Steve