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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (118068)	10/30/2003 3:22:09 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi KCFOS; Re: "Was that how the " West Was Won "?" Nice analogy. The difference is in the demographics and in the intention of the invaders. The west was won by flooding the region with "settlers" who soon outnumbered the locals. There were many more settlers than natives, so population pressure alone would have eventually wrought the changes that we see. Israel is trying the same thing, but since there are way too few Israelis, compared to Arabs, their settlement attempt is doomed. As far as Iraq goes, almost no one in the US wants to move out there, so there can be no question of "how the west was won". I saw some left wingers who were complaining that US engineers working in Iraq make $90 per hour (which is a lot more than our typical military member there makes). I don't think that this pay rate is at all excessive. In fact, I doubt that I could find many reasonably competent, not desperate for work, engineers who would be willing to work at that rate in such a God forsaken patch of bloody territory. -- Carl