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To: Bilow who wrote (116365)	10/8/2003 4:04:02 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't have the figure, but neither do you. "Ansar al-Islam, a militant Islamic movement. The group, which the State Department says has ties to Al Qaeda, controls a small pocket of territory sandwiched between Kurdish-controlled northeastern Iraq and Iran." krg.org The Iraq-AQ connection is Ansar Al-Islam...It was reported pre-war. All the more reason to confront them over there. washingtonpost.com

To: Bilow who wrote (116365)	10/8/2003 2:01:06 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Carl, My guess is that you have a political axe to grind. My guess is that you have never heard the saying about people in glass houses. You certainly seem to have a politcical axe to grind. I agree with you that we must be very careful in picking our fights, and that clear objectives and exit strategies are necessary. Having said that the Vietnamization of Iraq is all an opinion. In the case of General Clark - an opinion from a declared partisan. Your equivalency of Vietnam and either Lebanon or Somolia is strange. We lost 58,000 men in Vietnam and never fully supported their mission. Tons of mistakes were made - on all sides. Lebanon was a huge mistake, but certainly not in immediate casualties. In Mogadishu 18 men died supporting a humanitarian mission. Comparing 18 deaths to 58,000 begs the question - would you ever go to war? BTW - Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were implicated in that incident. This was established by the Clinton administration, not the existing one. John