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To: GST who wrote (112047)	8/20/2003 12:45:16 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 281500

It was Saddam who kept Al Qaeda out- since he had no sympathy with their aims of a Muslim Caliphate. Now that he is gone there is a vacuum in iraq that the US is not bully enough to fill, but Al Qaeda, and other organizations like them- no doubt a sort of home grown Iraqi Taliban- will be happy to fill this vacuum. We are indeed the fly- caught between a rock (our inability to leave Iraq without having the place blow up) and a hard place (our inability to stay because of spiraling costs and an increasingly organized and hostile resistance). It will be interesting to see just how badly US gets dreams get mashed in Iraq.

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