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To: tsigprofit who wrote (13069)10/17/2004 9:17:18 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (4) of 20773
 
To change my opinion, I'd have to be persuaded that Saddam didn't represent a future threat to the region which we would have had to fight anyway.

My opinion is we will still be there in some fashion or other in 2-3 years. Even if we aren't in Iraq proper, American troops are going to be somewhere close by in the Gulf region. The region is vital to the world economy and very vulnerable.

I hope and pray the casulties are small, but have no way of knowing what the casulties will be, just like I don't know what the casulties would have been the next time Saddam started a war.

Elections in Iraq are coming. I see no reason we will not be able to train a competent Iraqi security force strong enough to crush the resistance. It's encouraging that Sadr's forces are apparently turning in heavy weapons. The violence now is occuring mostly in the Sunni areas and Sunnis represent only 20% of the population.
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