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To: brian1501 who wrote (157328)	1/3/2003 11:10:00 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1580458

Going after al Qaeda will require good underground work by our CIA and FBI agencies. It will require patience and diligence and it will not be the relative walk in the park that deposing Saddam will be........and that's my point. Its my opinion that Mr. Bush wants to play hero and not do the grunt work needed to track down OBL. What about the armed forces maybe having to do something in Iraq prevents the CIA and FBI from pursuing Al Qaeda? Are they all reservists or something? ;) It's not black and white. We can take care of Iraq, and pursue Al Qaeda at the same time, and without you and I knowing all the details. Rumsfield claims that the US can handle two war fronts plus the war on terrorism. Its sounds good but the results do not reflect his optimistic view. So far, the US has managed to neutralize [for a while] the Taliban and slow [for a while] al Qaeda. A year later al Qaeda has regrouped and the Taliban are making waves in Pakistan. No one ever said it would be easy to stop al Qaeda and the results to date would suggest that's very true. Therefore, it seems to me that more resources need to be applied to the effort. And its not just resources but its focus as well. When you have your leaders dealing on 2-3 major fronts, you can't help but get a diluted effort no matter what resources back them up. ted

To: brian1501 who wrote (157328)	1/3/2003 12:04:00 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580458

We can take care of Iraq, and pursue Al Qaeda at the same time, and without you and I knowing all the details. You should know the details or else war is little more than a video game to those of you who favor it. People like you keep saying "we"...but the truth is that the vast majority of us will never lift a finger and will never know the horrors of the war on people, our own and theirs. For what? This is a country that can easily be contained. Bush has done a good thing by putting extreme pressure on Iraq. Now is the time to translate this pressure into a political solution that ensures an Iraq free from offensive weapons. And that will see the world rally in support of America, rather than condemn it for its overaggressiveness. Here's a country under extreme coercion to support an unpopular war on Iraq... Al Turkey backs U.S. military deployment in Gulf, but warns its people are against war 55 minutes ago By SELCAN HACAOGLU, Associated Press Writer ANKARA, Turkey - Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis on Friday backed the presence of U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf to pressure Iraq to disarm but warned that public opinion in his country was against deployment of American soldiers in Turkey. The Turkish people are overwhelmingly against a war in Iraq and the government has repeatedly balked at U.S. requests to base large number of U.S. troops in Turkey for a possible invasion of neighboring Iraq. "You can't tell Iraq 'disarm or else' from a distance," Yakis said in an interview on private NTV television. The United States "is doing the right thing by narrowing the circle around it ... and showing that there is no place to escape." Asked to comment on possible U.S troop deployment in Turkey to open a northern front against Iraq, he said: "The United States is our ally but there might be issues on which the interests of allies do not meet. "It would not suit us. Then, Turkey would become a country opening a front against its neighbor." Yakis did not, however, outright reject a possible troop deployment. "I think it is very important decision and there are signs of opposition in the public against the deployment of tens of thousands of troops," Yakis said. "Such a decision should be taken in the broadest consensus with public, parliament and non-governmental organizations," he added. "The opposition is obvious but it is not clear what can be accepted." Some 50 U.S. warplanes fly regular patrols over northern Iraq from a southern Turkish air base that hosted more than 100 strike aircraft during the Gulf War (news - web sites). Using Turkish bases for a ground attack would give the United States the ability to attack from both the north and the south, surrounding central Iraq, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s heartland of support. The government earlier said it would decide on U.S. deployment after U.N. weapons inspectors release their report in late January. Yakis' Justice and Development Party took office after November elections and is extremely sensitive to the anti-war sentiment. The party is conservative and its core constituency is pro-Islamic and strongly opposed to military action against fellow Muslims. Turkish Prime Minister Abdullah Gul is scheduled to visit Syria, Egypt and Jordan beginning Saturday, in part to demonstrate the government is trying to prevent a war. State Minister Kursad Tuzmen is expected to visit Baghdad next week on a similar mission. Turkey, a NATO (news - web sites) member, was a staging area for attacks against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War and Washington is pressing for an answer on the use of Turkish bases so it can upgrade facilities that it would use. Turkey, however, fears that a war would harm its fragile economic recovery and would lead to instability on its border.