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To: John Soileau who wrote (128681)	4/7/2004 10:58:38 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Blind Into Baghdad ___________________ The Atlantic Monthly January/February 2004 by James Fallows theatlantic.com "The U.S. occupation of Iraq is a debacle not because the government did no planning but because a vast amount of expert planning was willfully ignored by the people in charge. The inside story of a historic failure."

To: John Soileau who wrote (128681)	4/7/2004 11:47:23 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Do you read newspapers? Al-Jazeera? Arab News? Teheran Times? The Independent/UK? Pravda? MSNBC? Don't be shy . . . .

To: John Soileau who wrote (128681)	4/8/2004 11:27:11 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Shiite/Sunni/Kurd Iraq will be our "powerful ally" "against the Wahabists"?!!!Huh? Do you read newspapers? It's not going to happen tomorrow. It may require years. It may never happen. But IMO, I think it worth a try. And I believe the Bush administration made the same analysis. After all, the worse case scenario is a civil war, disruption of Iraq's oil production, partitioning of Iraq....etc.. All potential scenarios that we already facing Iraq should Saddam's sons not be able to unify the rival tribes under their rule. And such a tumultuous scenario should strike great fear into the hearts of the neighboring states of Iraq. Sometimes it requires a crisis to make people recognize their true interests and decide to act upon them. Btw, I proposed last spring that we should investigate the potential of creating a "permanent fund" style trust for Iraq similiar to what was created in Alaska. This very sense of "ownership" in the natural resources and economic progress of the nation, one would think, would go far to creating a new sense of alternative perspectives. It's important to create new inter-ethnic foundations of mutual interest in getting along peacefully to replace the ones based upon distrust, hate, and domination. Hawk