>>>So Mary Jo was just a casualty of no consequence for you?
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>>Of course her death was tragic, but so were the lives of thousands of GI's and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's who would still be alive had we listened to Ted.
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>Bill, you are too smart a guy to make an analogy like that.
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>There were many justifications for the Iraqi war, though I'll acknowledge the actual ground game was incompetent and led to far too many losses of life. But this "had we listened to Ted, the sole voice of reason" is pure 20-20 hindsight.

Well.. maybe - just this once, mind you- you have a point about the analogy. I was up late working on a nasty VFP bug, so I'm not at the top of my game.
That said, Ted's personal life was a shambles for sure, but his legislative accomplishments are unequalled in recent years