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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118113)	10/30/2003 3:42:07 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If public opinion has shifted and few Iraqis still see us as "liberators" then your assertions about our "staying" are also unlikely to be valid. You would at least need to ask the Iraqis if they would prefer some other alternative -- like a much larger multinational force. We allowed Iraq to fall into chaos and have failed to provide security -- less security is obviously not what is needed or wanted. But if we are unable to do it, then Iraqis might rightly expect us to get the hell out of the way.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118113)	10/30/2003 11:50:57 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 281500

As for our being an army of occupation, do you think all Iraqis are morons? Most know we don't want Iraq for a colony, and a more worried that we will pull out too soon and leave Iraq in chaos than that we will stay too long. With good reason. What do you think they think Chalabi is doing there? A guy who hasn't been in Iraq for 40 some years comes trotting back in with 500 soldiers at his side declaring that he has no aspirations to be king, I mean President of Iraq but is just there to "help" and is buds with Cheney and friends? And you think that if a Shia President who hates Israel and mistrusts the US is elected or, rather, looks like he will be elected, the US will just say, OK, it's your choice, bye guys, good luck, and ride off into the sunset. Right.