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Kennedy,

American policy does a lot of bad things. Call me selfish, but I’m far more concerned with the bad things it tries to do to me. The Iraqis are way down my list.

There’s nothing wrong with looking out for yourself. My point was just that this…

We’ve lost a couple thousand soldiers in Iraq and 5K people to 9/11.

… is not a complete list of the effects of foreign policy. (And the reason that the list was left incomplete may have something to do with whoever the hell this “we” is supposed to be.)