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To: greenspirit who wrote (138728)	7/4/2004 8:45:31 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Michael D. Cummings; Re: "Yup, glad to see you finally admitting this will not be another Vietnam and the Bush plan is working as described months ago." No, the Bush plan, as described months ago, was to make Iraq into a friendly state that would buttress our interests in the Middle East. Instead, what's happening is that Iraq is becoming a democratic enemy of the United States. The provisional government is already talking about forgiving those who've been shooting at the Americans, how long before they reward them? Iraqi prime minister may offer insurgents amnesty CNN, July 3, 2004 ... A spokesman for Iyad Allawi went as far as to suggest attacks on U.S. troops over the past year were legitimate acts of resistance -- a sign of the new government's desire to distance itself from the 14-month U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. "If he (a guerrilla) was in opposition against the Americans, that will be justified because it was an occupation force," the spokesman, Georges Sada, said Saturday. "We will give them freedom." ... cnn.com Falloujah and Sadr are still running around loose. After the elections, it will be people like that who run the country, and they're not our friends. All those Americans who died and continue to die will have died in order to replace one Iraqi dictatorship who hated us with a new Iraqi government, democracy or dictatorship, that also hates us. But that is better than sticking around and continuing to lose guys. Too bad for Israel, though. -- Carl