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To Ironside Hello Ironside. I'm new here too so I would like to say hello to you and to others in the forum. I read your post first. What you write about Condie RIce on the Soviet Union is so true. When Bush came into office and appointed her, she was mainly concerned about the Russians in spite of Clinton's warnings. How amazing is that! I miss the Clinton years when all we had to worry about was Monica Lewinsky. Now here we are with Bush, an overly medicated president, on anti-depressants and sleeping pills, who seems to be constantly trying to remember things because obviously these meds are affecting his memory and his brain (he's so aggressive). The tragedy in all of this is the loss of young lives, our future. Teenage soldiers losing their lives in Iraq and muslims dying by the thousands. The book Future Tense by Gwynne Dyer is what made me understand what this war is all about and how it has and will become an opportunity beyond Bin Laden's highest expectations. The book was written before the 2004 US election and in an interview, Gwynne Dyer had actually predicted the bombings of buses and the like as well as the rising anger in the Muslim world which is what Bin Laden had hoped for and Bush provided by his invasion of Iraq.