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To: Bilow who wrote (123995)	1/29/2004 6:04:03 PM
From: KyrosL	Respond to of 281500

I was not in favor of the Iraq war, but I thought we should finish it properly, after we started it. I was wrong regarding the die down of the insurgency soon after July, and wrong again about it dying down soon after the capture of Saddam. But I think Bush will disengage, for all intents and purposes, well before the elections, regardless of the insurgency. I always thought that we needed a lot more troops, money, and time in Iraq, if we were serious about establishing a liberal democracy in the long term, especially after the botched early post-war months -- which, I think, history will judge as criminally incompetent. But we will never know if more troops, money and time would have worked. Best case for Iraq is that it will end up as Iran-lite. Worst case, it will suffer a civil war that will make Saddam's last decade look like the good old days. Iraq is a very depressing subject, and I try to avoid debating about it.