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To: boris_a who wrote (145498)	9/13/2004 7:11:19 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Things have to get worse before they get better. Perhaps the study is using the wrong ideals. In fact it is guaranteed in that the only really valuable product of the country is oil which is not flowing steadily and from which the profits are not trickling down. So who pays for the schools, education, water, power, etc when there can be no taxes? Its a poverty-ridden country with high ideals, excepting for the funds others like the US make available. The base from which progress can be made should be the infrastructure that exists today. Electric power production, oil production, water and power services, people in schools, number of employed. Insurgents are ruining the entire process and should be and are the first priority to control.Huge progress can be made without their interference. Priority one is better security forces. NATO forces are in Iraq training Iraqi forces. Insurgents are being kept on-the-nmove and destroyed when found. That defeats their ability to organize, to collect arms and recruit, to find safe houses. They were in Fallugha and were forced out, went to Najif and were forced out, and citizens are learning not to accommodate their presence in towns. An attempt to have Iraqis alone control Fallugha failed, and the Iraqi government and we learned that more was needed. 'More' is now being applied by air strikes and Marines. It is obvious by now that insurgents will be a problem for a long time. Preventing them from achieving more power is the first priority, and IMO Al Sadr has lost support by failing to live up to his word. Ways will be found to have the elections. No reason I see that citizens of Fallugha or Najif are forced to vote if they consider it unsafe. Sig