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To: Elroy who wrote (243663)	10/1/2007 4:10:48 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I have not been reading all of the posts on FADG for quite a while, the volume of posts is high and there is a lot of nonsense being posted between the insults. So I hoped to get a measure of where you were coming from. "rebuilding a government from scratch with an army that can't speak the local language is a bit crazy, if not a near impossible job." I am not sure there is ever a good time to liberate a country from a tyrannical dictator. After having a generation in control and brutalizing the people Hussein had whipped the free will out of most of the populous. I don't believe that they were going to get freer or braver by extending his tyrannical dictatorship, and you probably don't either. It appears to be true that some of the Whitehouse advisors under estimated the requirements for policing the country after a power vacuum and Hussein freeing all of the prisoners including the violent ones. The decision for total deBaathification certainly removed potentially effective people from being allied and turned some of them into enemies.

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