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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159521)	3/23/2005 6:22:16 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The extra troops would not be doing the vetting of the Iraqi Army, they would be providing the security and containment of the Iraqi Army, while the vetting process was going on. The actual determination of each soldier's disposition would require intelligence personnel to interview the soldiers about themselves and about each other and gather information as to their rank and standing under Saddam. I don't know why you assumed the infantry would do this. That would be insane. Perhaps you envisioned the carnival that occurred at Abu Ghraib? As for the folks in Baghdad being optimistic about the future, of course they are optimistic...that's human nature. Pessimistic traits are generally self defeating and get removed from the gene pool. Two years after the invasion, I would expect that some normalcy can return, and that folks are going to be thinking tomorrow will be better, and I think it will be. But that in no way justifies the horrific misadventure that the US put them through, and is still putting them through. Even the survivors of Nagasaki were optimistic about the future 2 years after the blast! Does their optimism justify the horror? Orca