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My responses in blue.

*McCain would continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan indefinitely which they believe would continue to drain American resources.

1. Any war will drain resources. This should be obvoius. The determination that needs to be made is whether the cost is worth the results. Since only people against invading Iraq have actually examined the possible results (without the Rose Garden tinted glasses) then it is tough to make a valid determination. The result in Iraq will most likely be another dictator taking over, or a parlimentary system similar to, and leaning towards, Iran. Either is not good for us.

*Continued war would galvanize the Arab countries against a common enemy.

Iranians and Iraqis have already worked together to fight us. The longer we stay the worse it will get.

*Continued war would brainwash Arab youth into hating and fighting us for generations to come.

Arabs tend to have a long societal memory. Iranians already hated us for SAVAK; Iraqis will end up hating us for different reasons such as killing their family members and disrepecting their tribal leaders who really should have been given control of the country right off the bat with our military to back them for a period of a year or two.

Steve