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whether our troops should remain in Iraq. I would like to hear your responses to arguments that A1 Quaeda is now meeting us on Iraqi battlefields instead of New York streets, and we are slowly but inexorably defeating them. And the huge propaganda advantage they would gain by “defeating” the Great Satan. I would like to know how you envision the future of Iraq, the Middle East, and the Islamo-fascist movement, if we pull our troops out on a timetable that A1 Zarkawi can patiently watch, counting down as easily as Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore can. But I will have no opportunity to hear your arguments, because the cacophony of distortions to attack the Republican President will drown out any reasonable discourse; a cacophony you have unfortunately amplified.

I was among those reluctant for the U.S. to invade Iraq, specifically because I do not believe we can police the whole world and because our troops, as you observe, would become proximate targets for suicidal wackos. But I am weary of the media nightly

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