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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (118713)	11/6/2003 1:13:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Does that please you, Jacob? That some civilians are afraid of being killed, and are withdrawing until the situation is more secure? Does it make you feel like you're smarter than everybody else (pace Bilow) because you predicted that people would be killed in Iraq, and, lo and behold, people are being killed in Iraq? Are we keeping points? If so, how many did you score?

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (118713)	11/6/2003 2:19:47 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

U.S. withdrawing too: ...the actual number of soldiers serving in Iraq will be reduced from 132,000 to just over 100,000 in six months' time.- General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff news.bbc.co.uk If, in addition to this, the soldiers exit populated areas, then the rate of attacks on U.S. soldiers will decrease. But the rate of attacks on any Iraqis who collaborate with the U.S., and any other foreigners in Iraq, will go up. Our intel, inadequate now, will get even worse. There will emerge parallel power structures to challenge the U.S. Occupation Authority (this is already happening). We won't have the forces to challenge them, and they will become the de facto rulers of Iraq, as we slowly leave. It'll be interesting, to see how close to zero the troop level gets, by election-time.