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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (182369)2/10/2004 7:11:18 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 1578096
 
Ten

re: Because even after Saddam was kicked out of Baghdad, there were many who doubted that Al Qaeda was in Iraq causing the insurgency. IIRC, you too doubted it as well.

I didn't know one way or another in the beginning. I assumed the roadside bombs and ambushes were Iraqi insurgents. In retrospect it probably was just local. When the car bombs started going off, sometimes simultaneously, I knew there was an AQ influence, if not execution.

And I don't think anyone believes that AQ is "causing" the insurgency, as you put it. I don't think they are leading it. I just think they are participating when they have the resources and opportunity, same as everywhere else.

On the other subject... it's one thing to try to end a war for political purposes, another thing to endanger your own soldiers by releasing an intercepted call to arms against them. What did they think before they did that?

John
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