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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (159522)	3/23/2005 7:22:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As for the folks in Baghdad being optimistic about the future, of course they are optimistic...that's human nature They weren't optimistic under Saddam, at least if you believe what they have to say about it. For that matter, the bloggers in Damascus don't sound too optimistic either. A really rotten government can do that to you. BTW, the Iraqis have been optimistic ever since the liberation, according to the polls, even during the worst of the insurgency. You keep hearing the same thing from the bloggers - we didn't live under Saddam, we just existed. A curious factoid: a higher percentage of Iraqis think their country is on the right track than Americans do.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (159522)	3/23/2005 7:26:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| 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. What do you envision, the American army would be holding the Iraqi Army prisoner, while the slow vetting process went on? The personnel who can do the vetting would remain the bottleneck. And if all these yet-unvetted soldiers weren't prisoners, what would they be doing, sitting at home? Working for who knows what side with their American funding? There was no panacea to be had.