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To: Bilow who wrote (116860)	10/14/2003 6:42:27 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I told you that this is what would happen as long as a year ago, and therefore Bush wouldn't opt to try and occupy Iraq. If I recall correctly, you didn't think that the war would take place. ..fail to realize that Iraq, having not had the bejesus bombed out of it, would not be in the same defeated mood that Germany and Japan were, but instead would be in a mood for continuing the war. Huh? Seems to me that Iraq did get the bejesus, as you colorfully put it, bombed out of it. What war is being continued? C2@puzzled.com

To: Bilow who wrote (116860)	10/15/2003 3:28:11 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq was humiliated by a crushing defeat, and the failure to put up much of a fight. Most Iraqis feel liberated, not defeated. It is not a big surprise that some of the most loyal minions of Saddam continue harassing the occupation, nor, given the penchant of militant Islamicists for terror tactics, that there should be some who engage in suicide bombing crossing the border. This is not at all like the situation of widespread resistance we experienced in the countryside of Vietnam, where the weekly average of casualties was much higher. As for the bankrupt foreign policy of Israel, that is ludicrous: Israel has merely coped with a greater or lesser degree of Arab intransigence from the beginning..........