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To: LindyBill who wrote (97856)	1/31/2005 6:56:53 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793587

Command Post - Dan Darling Analysis: Zarqawi & the Insurgency The Iraqi elections are over and, by all accounts, ended reasonably successfully. While I refused to engage in the kind of calculus of killing that some had set into prior to the voting (discussions of how many people have to die for us to consider it an "unsuccessful" election), I will be quite frank and say that based on what I heard while I was in DC for the inauguration that the US was expecting Zarqawi or "Z-Man" as they call him in military circles (a reference, or so I understand it, to a transvestite from a 1970s X-rated film) to hit them with everything he had. As in, people were talking quite seriously about between 500 to a 1,000 casualties and this was just in defense circles. When Brigadier General Erv Lessel was talking about a spectacular terrorist attack on the elections just 6 days ago, he was talking about 9/11 or equivalent level attacks. It is for that reason that I think it's best that we take the time to fully appreciate what we were going up against here so we can understand the full magnitude of what has just been accomplished.