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To: epicure who wrote (135629)	6/4/2004 4:26:55 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Want luck, think DDAY. The bad news is that war is a very messy enterprise. The good news is that it's messy for both sides. Zarquawi looked at the landscape 6 months ago and told us what he was going to do. We reacted slowly. I am not so sure that at present they arent more despondent than some of us. They have killed many but actually won little. The damage done to us has been more self inflcited as in abu ghirab and DOD low cost war. And they have to now face a changed environment because as of 7/1(actually now), it will be harder for them to kill iraqis and get away with it. And as some on the left have said, these insurgents are not all al quaeda, baathist/pro-saddam--many are nationalists and even some fundamentalists against the US but not necessary pro-terror and anti-the iraq govt at least on DAY 1; and many of these folks may wind up more like Jerry Adams, and not zarquawi. In any case we certainly are at a critical time. Mike