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To: Alighieri who wrote (176728)	10/16/2003 9:25:48 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

It's a lot better in Iraq than the press is making it out to be. Tweinty to thirty attacks daily Do you find that to be unexpected or an intolerable price for installing a democracy in the very center of the Middle East? For freeing 22M people? For ridding the world of Saddam Hussein? ...and withering credibility. Credibility is "withering" only in the minds of the weak. And it certainly isn't "withering" amongst the Iraqi people.

To: Alighieri who wrote (176728)	10/16/2003 2:23:52 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573682

Al, Tweinty to thirty attacks daily... From a first-hand perspective (http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/Articles2003/MajorRydbom030812IraqNews.htm): Are we still getting shot at? Yep. Are American Soldiers still dying? Yep, about 1 a day from the 4th ID, most in accidents, but dead is dead. If we are doing all this for the Iraqis, why are they shooting at us? The general population isn't. There are still bad guys, who won't let go of the old regime. They are Ba'ath party members (Read Nazi Party, but not as nice) who know nothing but the regime. They were thugs for the regime that caused many to disappear in the night and they have no other skills. At least the Nazis had jobs they could go back to after the war as plumbers, managers, engineers, etc...these people have no skills but terror. They are simply applying their skills...and we are applying ours. There is no Christian way to say they must be eliminated and we are doing so with all the efficiency we can muster. Our troops are shot at literally every day by small arms and RPGs. We respond and 100% of the time, the Ba'ath party guys come out with the short end of the stick. The most amazing thing to me is that they don't realize that if they stopped shooting at us, we would focus on fixing things and leave. The more they shoot at us, the longer we will stay. Tenchusatsu