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To: maceng2 who wrote (43682)	9/13/2002 6:47:56 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Kurds definitely seem to have had a tough time of it.. Yeah, Pearly, it seems like everybody they have ever dealt with has betrayed them. But, when you help them, they start killing each other, as you can see in the events that happened in Northern Iraq after we set up the "no fly" and helped. The area reminds me of the Balkans. God, I wish we could get out of there. We need the troops elsewhere. Same thing in the Sinai. We have a Battalan of troops, (600 men), stationed there between the Eygptians and the Israelis as a "Trip Wire." When you add the "coming that going," that is 1800 men plus support just on that one minor operation. Then add in our troops in Korea, that we really can't draw down. But we can pull from Germany. We took Afghanistan with 200 men on the ground. (That reminds me of the old "Clive took India" line.) But that won't work in Iraq.