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To: Bilow who wrote (129362)	4/15/2004 12:16:58 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

There are four Iraqi battalions, so only 25% refused to fight. I don't think that they're AWOL, they just refused to fight Iraqis. If their leaders tell them to turn around, we're not going, then the troops will follow.. But who can blame them for not wanting to fight in Fallujah? After all, even Saddam's military was afraid to stir up that hornet's nest of smugglers and criminal thugs (as you referred to them). Since you don't have a plan to stop them, I'd suggest that you start thinking about owning a more fuel efficient car. I don't have a problem with that. I'm all for converting to hydrogen (even own some stock in hydrogen fuel cell companies). But it isn't going to solve the problem for the rest of the world which is relying upon relatively cheap fossil fuels to sustain their economic growth. And we're depending on that economic growth to sustain the US economy. We're all in this together, whether we like it or not, and your isolationist proclivities will only exacerbate the global problem that Islamic militancy and totalitarianism represent in the mid-east. Hawk