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To: bentway who wrote (499263)	11/26/2003 6:28:15 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 769670

...and Hamed Karzai is just a mayor Even that maybe too generous. He probably owns a garden in the middle of Kabul and that's about it. He would be a goner by now, but has some 20 US soldiers keeping him alive in his bedroom, bathroom, toilet etc. etc. (Can't trust any Afghans to protect him, I guess!)

To: bentway who wrote (499263)	11/27/2003 2:59:58 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Some Neocon-wannabe commented that Afghanistan was a success and that Iraq could be just like that. Heaven help us if that's what it turns out to be. abcnews.go.com "..."I think it was a mistake," Garner said. "We planned ... on bringing the Iraqi army back and using them in reconstruction." Bremer's decision threw hundreds of thousands of breadwinners out of work and provided potential recruits for insurgency, he said. "You're talking about around a million or more people ... that are suffering because the head of the household's out of work," said Garner. "And we had budgeted to pay the Iraqi army. But part of our plans said, you know, they'll surrender like they did in the first Gulf War. "Well, hell, they didn't surrender, they just evaporated," Garner said... Garner complained of bad relations between the Pentagon and State Department, saying he didn't learn of a detailed study by Secretary of State Colin Powell for postwar Iraq until a few weeks before the war began in March." ----- I heard that unemployment in Iraq is about 70%. It's nice to see those running the show fighting with each other like children.