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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7824)12/22/2006 9:52:14 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (2) of 15987
 
You need to come to terms that our national (as well as global) interest is prevent Jihadist minded Islamic powers from gaining control in Iraq. It makes no sense to overthrow Saddam merely to permit the "Talibanization" of Iraq.

It is not that complicated.

Given where we are now:

1.) Iraqis are completely incapable of getting together to form a government that is capable of providing stability and security for its own people.

2.) George W. Bush has squandered American and Iraqi lives, nearly $2 trillion dollars, and US credibility to produce this mess in the ME.

What is clearly needed is a benign dictator to come along with $1 trillion dollars to spend and put Iraq together giving them electricity, clean water, get oil revenue flowing, and distributing income equitably.

Of course that is not going to happen.

Given the current situation, the ISG proposal is the only alternative providing that we have an intelligent president that can appoint a James Baker type Secretary of State to execute the proposal.

It is all in the execution. The ISG proposal can and will have to be tweaked to make it work.

As long as we have George W. Bush as president the mess in the ME will continue. If we elect someone like McCain, Romney, or Guiliani in 2008 the mess in the ME will not get better. If we elect someone like Gore, Obama, Clinton, or Edwards we may have a chance.
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