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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: carranza2 who wrote (50636)6/17/2004 11:36:19 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) of 793972
 
"But we are getting on track as it appears that the insurgents are slowly losing. Zarqawis recent plea to OBL had the ring of truth to it--he essentially admitted that the insurgency is getting slowly crushed.

Iraqis will turn against the insurgents as the carnage they cause causes more and more death and destruction. Like anyone else, they want a return to normalcy. We are offering peace and a reconstruction, the insurgents are simply offering Iraqis a religious dictatorship instead of Saddam's secular one. "

You sure? Zaquawis plea was sometime ago and they seem have gotten the insurgency off the ground in spite of the fact we knew what was coming. "Iraqis will turn against the insurgents"--perhaps but not until they are sure they will be on the winning side when they do. This is all about retribution for those on the wrong side. I agree most iraqis want the terrorists gone but also will not stick their necks out one bit. Same folks dance on our tanks when they are destroyed just as they cheered for saddam when in their interest.
As far as saddam being a buyer of wmd, so is syria, so is iran, so are many other nations. I think we had a year to wait before we did iraq and in that year we could have won the battle for south asia and perhaps even wiped out central al quaeda. If done first, they (al q) would not have had this recruitment boom in iraq while bragging about surviving US in afganistan and pakistan. mike
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