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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (159388)3/21/2005 5:10:02 PM
From: michael97123  Respond to of 281500
 
Fixing it may mean leaving it or not. You are right about the sloganeering and i would add we get that on both sides.



To: cnyndwllr who wrote (159388)3/21/2005 11:20:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 281500
 
suggest. How do you fix something like Iraq once you've broken it? How do you fix something that takes years, wisdom you don't have and the cooperation of a nation of people with their own culture and their own ideas?

If that were really true then indeed we couldn't. But we do have the cooperation of the vast majority of Iraq, certainly of the Kurds and the Shia (80%), and the tide is turning for the new government even among the Sunni. Check out this article from John Burns of the NYT:

nytimes.com