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To: TobagoJack who wrote (42166)	11/29/2003 3:26:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Jay, I really appreciate that you are regularly updating the thread with Stratfor's analysis of the Iraqi situation. While I find that they are too acquiescent to the criminal operations of Bush's neocons, Stratfor does a decent job of collecting some facts on the ground. Missing elements from this latest analysis include the following items. 1) U.S. military forces are currently engaged in a lock down operation on three Iraqi towns in western Iraq near the Syrian border. This Sunni stronghold is being turned into a buffer zone and a forward staging area for the next aggression by U.S. expeditionary forces in a naked assault on Syria. Part of the planning for this aggression is the construction of at least three concentration camps in the region. 2) The actual thrust of the guerilla tactics was not well described in the Stratfor article. The object is not to hector the U.S. military in order to make it less aggressively eager to dominate the security situation in Iraq. The actual goal of Iraqi attacks is to influence public opinion in the U.S. which is steadily coming to be less acquiescent to Bush's mad scheme for the theft of Iraq's oil and the securing of Israel's flank. Continuing Iraqi operations will insure that the U.S. loses world opinion and the support of allies. Ever larger numbers of Americans, particularly conservatives who until recently were giving uncritical support to Bush are now beginning to realize that they have been lied too excessively by Bush. His credibility is going to suffer a continuous hit as American casualties and the inexorable deterioration of the financial condition of the Federal government becomes apparent to more and more complaisant Americans. -R.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (42166)	11/29/2003 7:00:11 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Respond to of 74559

While the Hillory and the lesser Bush sneak into compete for a photo op (like Jessica style hollywood make) the beat continues. Seven Spaniards, Two Japanese Die in Iraqi Attacks reuters.com Sat November 29, 2003 05:08 PM ET (Page 1 of 3) By Luke Baker BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed on Saturday in an attack on their unmarked vehicles south of Baghdad, Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo said, the latest assault on a close American ally. He said in a nationally televised address that another agent was slightly hurt in the attack by guerrillas using rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. In Japan, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said two Japanese who may have been diplomats were killed in an apparent ambush near Tikrit, hometown of Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein 110 miles north of Baghdad. ..... << <<... attack frequency in Iraq has dropped ... to about 15-18 per day>> Iraqi Guerrilla Tactics Nov 28, 2003 ...>>