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To: michael97123 who wrote (160258)	4/8/2005 6:03:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What about the possibility of mostly but not totally departing. Perhaps having a number of trainers and advisors for at least a few years after most of our forces have left? If there are something like 1 to 6 thousand American soldiers in Iraq it would be kind of hard to call us occupiers with a straight face. Iraq's government might get to a point where it can take on the insurgents and provide security without a lot of direct US participation, but where it still could us some assistance in the effort to continue to improve its forces. The US forces wouldn't be hunting down insurgents (or if they do, they would only do so as a small part of a force that was mostly Iraqi), or directly providing security for Iraqi cities and infrastructure. Tim