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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (569486)	4/27/2004 3:29:44 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Sorry, GZ... I think I was trying to get you to answer more specifically (even volunteer your own categories, if you wanted): >>> Winning battle after battle --- but ultimately failing to achieve what we claim to want (a unified, Democratic, peaceful Iraq that is friendly to Western values) would not be much of a 'victory'. this only encourages the enemy... >>> Who is the 'enemy', exactly? >>> Sunnis and tribal members of Saddam's clan ('dead enders in Rummie's phrase)? Fundamentalist Shias who desire religious rule? Nationalist Iraqis who don't want any occupation by foreigners? Trans-national muslim fighters, outgrowths of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and Nasirism, who think they are fighting a 'holy war' against crusaders? Terrorists? Insurgents? Iraqi Communists? Mob-style Capitalists who think we are going to queer their smuggling profits?