holmes writes me:
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Frankly I have been sickened by the left's use of american dead as a reason to abandon Iraqis to more of the same fate. It's fine to use them against Bush having sent us to war, but then all dead really should be mentioned and not used to argue what the appropriate course of action is now.
I tend to agree with you and Primordial Egg with a couple caveats, weak though they may be. One, I think to have included Iraqi dead in that protest would have amounted to preaching to the choir. The target audience is going to care only about American deaths if they care at all (but as you say, that shouldn't preclude at least a brief reminder at the end). Two, not everyone protesting this war feels that all of our troops should be brought home at once. Some of us would be heartened at least somewhat with a new, more realistic Iraq policy, something besides "let's stay the course".
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you."-George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss.,
Sept. 20, 2005.
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