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To: Ish who wrote (33647)	3/9/2004 4:59:20 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

"If they can create a democratic country that is peaceful it will be one of the biggest steps forward that humanity has ever taken." I agree, it would be an incredible achievement. Historic, unimaginable, totally without precedent. And unlikely. "I have a feeling that was one of the aims. Our troops are gone from SA, Iraq would make an even better place to base troops." I believe it was our only aim. Asking SA for permission was a real problem, look at what we went through with Turkey, which is supposedly our ally. We had to bribe these countries to use their ground, now we need bribe no one. Kuwait is not big enough to serve the purpose. If we maintain permanent and large military bases in Iraq, then I can see why it was worth it. If we bail our military out of Iraq, then it would have served no purpose.