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To: stockman_scott who wrote (133348)	5/17/2004 9:08:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Today, we are faced with a similar conundrum. The United States can win the battles, but it cannot win the war in Iraq. History teaches us that no occupation can last indefinitely. This is beyond stupid. Talk about driving with the rear view mirror! Who has proposed that we turn Iraq into an American colony and occupy it indefinitely? Who? Name me one single person! Of course we don't want to occupy it indefinitely. But we don't want it to dissolve into a civil war, either, which is what it will do if we cut and run. And guess what? the Iraqis agree with that assessment, and don't want us to pull out right now either. They want elections and their own government. They don't want to be ruled by Al Qaeda, Ba'athists, or mullahs on Iran's payroll, all of whom have a good shot if we pull out right now. So, for whose benefit does Ruth Rosen make this proposal? Not the Iraqis, clearly. Not even the Americans. No, it's for herself, herself and other liberal Democrats, for whom the only war that needs winning is the War Against Bush, and to hell with the rest of the world.