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To: michael97123 who wrote (147731)	10/13/2004 11:07:10 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thats why the terrorists have been attracted there because they realize how crucial iraq is to their cause and we certainly should make our best attempt to defeat them. I think we can agree on that. We can't even agree on that. In what way is it crucial to terrorists. It's more like a target of opportunity for them. Before the war in Iraq, AQ had significant presence in 59 countries [no significant presence in Iraq]. With the war in Iraq, they have more presence in Iraq but I've seen nothing to suggest that there are large numbers at all. You have a very small number of foreign fighters that are tying up a couple of hundred thousand coalition troops. Illustratively since we don't have an exact number .... a few thousand foreign fighters tying up 200,000 troops. A military success for the terrorists, IMO. Even if we flat out win in Iraq and keep our troops in Iraq for the next decade in a remotely stable Iraq....they're still in 59 countries. An AQ uses Iraq as a recruiting tool. Not to defend Tito or suggest anything different could have happened in Yugoslavia. Tito was brutal, ruthless, a murderer, torturer, etc., ad nauseum. They got rid of Tito and they got Milosovec. Such a deal. Nation building is a bitch. jttmab jttmab