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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (77675)6/26/2006 9:03:10 PM
From: CogitoRead Replies (2) of 81568
 
>>The recent news from Mosul is not good, but Mosul was quiet for a long time. The current reports seems to say that the sectarian strife in Baghdad has spread to Mosul. This is something new the insurgency is morphing into. It's certainly a sign of ruthlessness but not necessarily of strength; slaughtering whatever helpless target you can lay your hands on, since you can't manage to kill troops, is not really likely to win friends or be militarily effective.<<

Nadine -

Actually, the morphing of the insurgency is not from one thing into another, but from a few things into more things. The people who are all referred to as "insurgents" are really many different groups of people motivated by different things. Not all of these people would attack Americans if they could. They are attacking Shiites because the Shia are their preferred targets. They don't bomb mosques to hurt Americans.

I wish I could believe your view was correct; that the overall situation is improving, and real progress is being made. But I don't believe it. And I don't believe the problem is that the press is engaged in a vast conspiracy to make the Bush administration look bad. The press did a great job of helping them get elected.

- Allen
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