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To: Brumar89 who wrote (139512)	7/9/2004 1:16:55 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It is clear that we have dramatically underestimated the scale of the insurgency and we have overstated the foreign element. This is an Iraqi insurgency and it is aimed at us, first and foremost, and it is now also aimed at our surrogates. Will Iraq be stable if we leave? No. Will it be stable if we stay? No. So we will leave our army pinned down against this insurgency in a pointless waiting game -- what incompetent planning have we allowed to be forced on us as a nation.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (139512)	7/9/2004 1:41:55 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Everyone should keep in mind that the terrorists didn't win in Algeria, and they won't win in Iraq either. It's just that Iraq won't be rid of the problem overnight, but they will eventually. There is not going to be restoration of Baathist rule, nor Islamist rule. Those things just aren't going to happen. If the terrorist thugs had managed to win in Algeria and overthrow the government there, I'd possibly feel differently, but it might be worth studying how things have evolved in Algeria to see what went right.