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To: Bilow who wrote (181011)	1/31/2006 7:48:29 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The unemployment rate is 25~30% for 2005 according to the CIA: Hell, the unemployment rate of Saudi Arabia is around 30% (though no one really knows except the SA govt)!! I have a friend who was working in Kenya.. they have 60% unemployment there!! And I think it would be fair to say that in the majority of Arab countries the unemployment rater is at least 15-20%... But are they lining up to join THEIR militaries? Hell, would they be lining up while possessing the knowledge that they would likely be involved in close combat?? You should more fair, and less denigrating as to the reasons they join the military. Because under Saddam, the Iraqi army was upwards of 400,000 men. The reports I've read state that the Kurdish units are just biding time collecting pay until the civil war. Great. We'll have armed both sides. Again. No surprise there. They want a Kurdish enclave and are the major proponents for creating a Federalized Iraq, with Kurdistan having their own autonomy. And since the Kurds were brutalized under the Ba'thists, they are never going to put aside their right to defend themselves. And consequently, the Kurdish areas are relatively peaceful and properous. Some fellow Americans who would travel up in that region were telling me that they reallly didn't worry about IEDs or snipers because the Kurds had the place pretty well locked down. Three years on and the death toll keeps mounting. And you think that death toll will decrease if the US "bugs out" and leaves the various factions to raise the violence to full-fledged civil war? What makes you believe FEWER people are going to die in such an event? And are you willing to bear the responsibility for being the person who unleashed that massive killing?? Yes... I believe you are. Just make sure you put it in writing so we can hold you to the same accountability that you hold the administration to. Hawk

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