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To: i-node who wrote (177387)	11/2/2003 2:49:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573848

Terrorists are terrorists. They aren't defined by their cause, but by their actions. I don't know the best way to fight them, but one thing is certain -- rewarding them for their actions isn't it. The suggestion that we may bail out because the going got tough is simply rewarding them for their actions. We are not quitting in order to reward them. We are quitting because we can't possibly win. Its not a war; its home grown insurgency. Its what I suggested might happen last fall. The terrorists just add to the chaos and strife created by the insurgent guerillas.

To: i-node who wrote (177387)	11/2/2003 7:00:27 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573848

They never admit that there is problem until everyone and their brother says there's one.......and then they finally cop to it. ********************************************************** edition.cnn.com Bremer: Iraq attacks on troops 'more sophisticated' Sunday, November 2, 2003 Posted: 2217 GMT ( 6:17 AM HKT) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Guerrilla attacks on American troops have become more sophisticated in the past two months, while more Iraqis are cooperating with the U.S.-led coalition occupying the country, the U.S. administrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer said Sunday. Bremer, appearing on CNN's "Late Edition," said most of Iraq is "peaceful and very active economically." He described the situation in the so-called Sunni triangle of central Iraq -- where a helicopter crash killed 16 U.S. troops Sunday and two American civilian contractors died in a bomb attack -- as a "mixed bag." "It's getting better in the sense that we are finding more and more Iraqis, both in those cities and in the area north of there ... being willing to help work with us, either as members of the Iraqi security forces or coming in and giving us information," Bremer said. "It's getting worse in the sense that -- as you've seen today -- the enemies of freedom there are using more sophisticated techniques to attack our forces." Bremer also said U.S. troops are seeing a more advanced use of improvised explosive devices as "stand-off" weapons, allowing them to strike American forces at a distance. And Sunday's shooting down of a U.S. helicopter, "if that's what it was," is a new development, he said. The attacks are being coordinated at a local or regional level, but U.S. officials have "no evidence" that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is behind them, Bremer said. "The enemies of freedom in this country will stop at nothing," Bremer said. "Now this week, which began with the killing of lots of Iraqis, has ended with killing Americans, and we have mingled our blood together in this war on terrorism." On Friday, in the Abu Ghraib market west of Baghdad, U.S. troops killed 14 Iraqis after they were attacked with grenades and small arms fire, a U.S. Army source said. (Full story) Bremer said the United States is speeding up its training of Iraqi police and military forces to assume more responsibility for keeping order. He said about 220,000 Iraqis will be serving in reconstituted security services by September 2004, including about 40,000 troops from a new Iraqi army.