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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (131127)5/3/2004 10:13:15 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
...We're going to be in Iraq, and the Mid-East in a big way for the next 10-20 years

Looking at the pre-Fallujah polls of Iraqis. It would be my expectation that the Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan 2005 would have a lot of candidates whose platform would be "get the US out of Iraq" and those candidates will win by a very large margin. I would not expect that the activity in Fallujah, Najif or the recent accusations on US "activities" in the prisons are going to be swaying a lot of Iraqis into supporting a continued presence. Perhaps you disagree.

But for argument sake, suppose that Iraqis vote in Jan 2005 for the platforms/candidates to get the US out of Iraq. Are you predicting that the US will ignore it and remain in Iraq?

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