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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (171881)	10/4/2005 4:06:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Ed, Iraq is an excellent live-fire training and testing project with a reasonably low cost of $200 billion = $1,000 per taxpayer. The number of deaths and maimings is not too bad with a third of them due to accidents rather than opposition action. Plenty of Iraqis want the USA and COW to be there as they have a lot of years experience of Sunni suppression. The USA could say to Saddam "Look, it seems we've made a bit of a blunder, why don't we put you back in charge and we'll support you". That would put the wind up a lot of Iraqis and settle things down. Let the deck of cards start up again. Not Saddam's sons of course. With Saddam in charge and the oil flowing and no WMDs [which to me were obviously not there or there in negligible proportions] there would be order. He's good at suppressing dissent. Operation River Gate is underway as we speak! Pacifying the Euphrates ahead of the constitution. Another excellent training course. I'm not advocating these things, just commenting on other aspects from Rummy's point of view and King George II's Crusades. Mqurice

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