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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (210111)	12/7/2006 10:50:24 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The apparent answer is that it's a face-saving measure to allow us to begin drawing down our troops while pretending we "plan" to continue to support the current Iraqi government. It allows us to claim we will have left on our own terms by claiming that if only the Iraqi units hadn't "turned" on our "advisors" we'd have stayed the course. I think it's preparing the public for "the loss". To leave it as the strategy was a failure and Iraq is lost would always beg the question of what if we did something different? So they gave us "something different", it won't work and we'll leave. Another 1,000 Americans dead, another 20,000 Iraqis dead. jttmab

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