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To: RetiredNow who wrote (226809)	3/29/2005 2:30:19 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573134

The interrim government isn't stable yet. I'd like to see a general election first and a more reliable Iraqi army and police force. There has been reasonable stability in Iraq for the past year. 95% of the population is living perfectly normal lives. If there is one explosion per day in one city that kills two people, that doesn't significantly disrupt the lives of the 21 million OTHER people in Iraq. So why aren't 1,000 new Iraqi civil defense troops completing their training every week (for the past year), allowing, say, 200 coalition troops to leave and go home? There appears to be ZERO progress as far as coalition troop drawdown occurring. I'm all with the idea of leaving Iraq as a stable successful democracy, but I expect to see progress toward that goal. What we are seeing, in terms of Iraqis replacing coalition troops in the role of maintaining order, is close to zero. Progress equates to coalition troops leaving. Failure equates to them staying. There's no way to get around that, and the longer it takes to leave the more likely failure becomes.