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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14554)	4/19/2003 12:07:20 PM
From: Edscharp	Read Replies (2) of 21614

Gustave, Iraqi cleric warns U.S. to leave" Even you must appreciate the irony of this. No matter what direction the US turns there is somebody with an agenda that is going to criticize them. Right now, there are groups that are demanding that the US provide food, electricity and water. Other groups feel that the US has a major responsibility to repair much of the Iraqi infrastructure and get the oil fields operational again. In the meantime, the US is busy tracking down Hussein's top leaders and eliminating what's left of Hussein's paramilitary and republican guards. The US is keenly interested in locating the huge stashes of money that Hussein and his henchmen have put away in Swiss banks and god knows where. And, all of these things are for the interest of the Iraqi people. Presumably, even the Iraqi cleric you mentioned would support this. The Arab countries that have supported the US want us to leave quickly, but they also want us to construct an interim Iraqi government as a prelude to removing oil sale sanctions. You can't leave the country without some kind of power structure in place. You would have instant chaos...again! And to top it off, the final irony is that there are probably groups that are not so keen to see us leave quickly. There are some serious ethnic rivalries in the region. The Shiites predominate and have been out of power during the past 30 years of the Hussein rein. I suspect that there are more than a few Sunni groups that fear reprisals and paybacks from them It is the avowed purpose of the US not to rule Iraq and we won't, but it is going to take time to get Iraq up and running again. During that time every person with an agenda against the US will have a field day criticizing us for everything and anything they can. As Americans we've come to expect nothing less.

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