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To: Neocon who wrote (115967)	9/30/2003 3:55:43 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is interesting when you read it in conjunction with the Gallup and Zogby in-Iraq polls: MARSHALL: Right. It's Vietnam (search) deja vu. I was a recon sergeant in Vietnam and went through this process of trying to deal with a guerrilla war. It is a very difficult thing to do and could be that things weren't going well. Well, I came away with the impression that things are going well. Certainly a good bit better than seems to me, the overall American seems to thinks. This Dem congressman doesn't seem that articulate or perhaps the editing isn't that great but the overall impression I get from it is that he is satisfied things are going reasonably in Iraq from a US point of view and probably from an over all Iraqi point of view, also. It seems to fit also with reports from experienced observers, such as Marc Ruel Gerecht, who travel through the country. The thing to bear in mind from a FA point of view is that if things are, in fact, going reasonably in Iraq for the US, then the US government won't have to give way greatly to the desires of European governments or those parts of the UN which would like to have a very large say in how things will develop in Iraq. Also, from a domestic point of view, if things continue to progress reasonably in Iraq, then such a picture will become much clearer to everyone in the US in the next few months. The Bush admin won't look like rocket scientists but will look like they're managing the Iraq venture messily but successfully, and the admin's political problem will be the domestic economy.