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To: Bilow who wrote (100916)	6/10/2003 1:14:52 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Of course it doesn't change my mind that we shouldn't have gotten involved in Iraq. As it was, we went in with zero support from the Arab world. Not a single Arab soldier went over the border with us, not a damn one. Of course they didn't. The regimes running those countries are the US's enemies. Why would you expect support from enemies in a case where their interests are threatened? If they really gave an f about their fellow Arabs, they'd be contacting the US government and offering peacekeepers to replace our troops in the Iraq occupation. (Or offering troops to keep the Palestinians from terrorizing Israel.) Of course if they did that, they'd end up with their own troops getting shot at by the locals, but the shooting would be less than our soldiers will take. Actually, the shooting at the Arab soldiers would be greater and would be done by a much larger number of Iraqis, and different Iraqis, than are presently shooting at US folks because their governments supported Hussein's regime. The Iraqis all know about the Arab regimes' support of Hussein - his media triumphantly broadcasted it.