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To: Bilow who wrote (123810)	1/27/2004 6:26:56 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<My point is that since we have no plan for winning in Iraq, and no plan for exiting,>> That "we" part, are you Rove? Cheney? Powell? Rice or Bush? You know for sure what each of them are thinking? Do you even know what they had for breakfast? Lunch?

To: Bilow who wrote (123810)	1/28/2004 7:58:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Britain occupied Northern Ireland for what, 800 years? And some countries have probably occupied other countries for a few hours. Neither is likely to be very relevant to this specific situations. For all they know, 800 years is the correct figure. For all anyone knows Iraq or even the US might not be around in 800 years. The fact that no one can predict an exact date doesn't mean that the chances of this conflict lasting 800 years is even a significant fraction of 1%. No war in history has lasted that long, and if the US failed for that long we would be likely to just give up on the idea and go home. The 800 year war idea is a really weak attempt to support your original statement "Eventually our kill total will exceed that of Saddam." Bush killed another 6 voters today Did FDR kill hundreds of thousands of Americans in the 40s? By the way, do you remember my comments from April 2002 about how US military power is effective as a defense, but fairly limited as an occupation power? My analysis is now being shown to be accurate in Iraq. You analysis has not been shown to be accurate in Iraq. I did agree to it when you applied it to Africa. Tim