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To: John Carragher who wrote (125430)	3/1/2004 9:12:33 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<attacks on oil pipe lines, refineries almost nill> I am not certain if that is correct. There have been major attacks on pipelines in recent days. __________________________________________________ Iraq Oil Pipelines Hit as Sabotage Spreads South Mon Feb 23, 8:12 AM ET By Khaled Yacoub Oweis MAKHUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s northern oil export pipeline is still coming under attack, officials said Monday, as sabotage hit infrastructure further south, raising fresh fears about the vulnerability of the country's oil industry.

To: John Carragher who wrote (125430)	3/2/2004 11:43:52 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi John Carragher; Re: "Country [Iraq] continues to get more secure ..." To bad you wrote this just before the bloodiest day since Bush declared the war over: At Least 143 Die in Attacks at Two Sacred Sites in Iraq ... It was the deadliest day in the 11 months since American troops toppled Saddam Hussein's Sunni Muslim-dominated government. ... John F. Burns, NY Times, March 3, 2004 nytimes.com Iraq is about 1/10th the size of the US, so that 150 or so killed, when scaled to a US sized nation, is equivalent to about 1/2 of the WTC attack. Hardly secure. Re: "... and independent." In this you are correct, in that our troops are no longer enforcing the peace as much. We're taking fewer casualties, but it's not like we're leaving behind a stable government. Already the locals are fighting with each other more than they're fighting us, and while I think that this is a good thing, I would prefer that we simply pull our troops out completely. If we don't have our troops keep the peace, there's really no reason for them to be there, and no reason for them to keep getting killed. -- Carl