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To: A. Geiche who wrote (472750)	10/8/2003 5:53:23 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 769670

Ethnic Kurds in the north and the Shiite majority in the south largely abhor Hussein and fear the Sunni Muslim minority, which was privileged under Hussein. The Shiites especially have kept anti-Americanism in check at the behest of their religious leaders, who reason that the Shiites would be the main victims of a Baathist resurgence. THERE'S the KEY to the solution. If I were running the show I would concentrate on building up an Iraqi security force well armed and well trained in the North and South. In the interim I would conduct a holding operation in the Sunni middle. Once the Kurds and Shiites were ready I would put THEM in charge to clean out the middle with our forces withdrawing to a QUICK RESPONSE teams outside of the cities in the event the Iraqi's needed some firepower. For all we know maybe that is exactly whats going on. But, this takes some time. Give it a year and lets see whats happening. I do agree though, we SHOULD NOT get ourselves into fighting a guerrilla type war, that causes US to bring ourselves down to THEIR level which takes away our advantages. jdn