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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (134505)	5/26/2004 11:09:16 PM
From: John Soileau	Read Replies (2) of 281500

<<We opened an Iraqi front on the war on Al Qaeda.>> Nadine, history will tell whether the Iraq invasion was helpful or harmful to our effort to destroy al Qaeda. My working assumption at this point is that it was, overall, harmful. What we do know is: 1.Bush pulled men, materiel, and money OUT OF Afghanistan, where al Qaeda unquestionably had its bases. Smooth move! 2. Bush committed men, materiel and money (enormous amounts of each) into a country that the President himself acknowledged he could not link to 9/11. Smooth move! 3. Bush will shortly pull 3,600 soldiers OUT OF South Korea, and move them into Iraq. Hey, lets enhance our security by removing about 10% of the troops guarding against the craziest, most dangerous nuclear power on the planet--one that actually has long-range missiles. Smooth move! Call it "an Iraqi front on the war on Al Qaeda" if you wish. I'll just call it... an Iraqi _affront_ to the war on al Qaeda. John

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