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To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (7652)	11/30/2006 8:09:33 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 15987

The civil war in Iraq or however you want to label it, it is a civil war we created. Darfur is a civil war on a much broader scale. One could say the very same thing about Afghanistan, n'est pas? The Taliban continue to use Pakistan as a base of operations to conduct their insurgency against Afghans to this day. So is that the fault of the US? OR is it the fault of the Taliban (and their supporters amongst various Pakistani tribes)? Bringing down Saddam for failing to abide by the terms of binding UNSC resolutions was the right thing to do. Al Qai'da and other Salafists groups coming to Iraq (or springing up indigenously) bear just as much blame in the instability in Iraq. And we certainly cannot excuse Syria's participation in supporting the Sunni insurgents, or Iran's support of both the Shi'a militants like Al Sadr, and their providing sanctuary for Al Qai'da leaders (such as Bin Ladin's son Sa'ad). Don't blame the situation in Iraq totally on the US. If you want to blame anyone, it should be Bush Sr and other Arab leaders who should have overthrown Saddam in 1991 when there was no doubt (or distortion) of the culpability of his acts of aggression. Hawk

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