Rolf wrote:

> What amazes me, and this is not meant to be a snide comment at all....
> is that people expect the government (any government) to be open and
> honest (caveat: I live in Canada, not the US, but politics is
> fundamentally the same here).

Oh, and there's another, more vital thing involved. Much of the time I'm
not inside the US (or even North America). Whenever I'm outside, I have a
strong interest in the general (US) public watching where the (US)
government sends the troops, and why. 

If the reasons for sending the troops both to Afghanistan and to Iraq turn
out to not be what they were claimed they were, and if I don't fully
understand the real reasons... who's to say I'm not in a place where they
go next (as long as I'm outside the US)? I'd like to have /some/
predictability in this :)

Gerhard

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