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To: Suma who wrote (161108)	4/26/2005 6:01:02 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"I do not see an end to the insurgency. I think that as long as we remain in Iraq there will be these continual suicide bombings.. That means we cannot leave... Catch 22... all over." Dont agree with your premise that suicides cant be stopped but even if that is true to some degree, it doesnt mean we cant leave. We must leave so UW kids can tell us how we lost iraq after we lost vietnam and before that china. We knocked off saddam. Iraq as a country wont be a threat anytime soon and if they try to develop terrorist camps a la afganistan we can bomb them. If we had done that earlier in afganistan the WTC would still stand.

To: Suma who wrote (161108)	4/26/2005 6:14:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I do not see an end to the insurgency. I think that as long as we remain in Iraq there will be these continual suicide bombings.. That means we cannot leave... Catch 22... all over. The insurgency is losing, but it will take a long time. The Sunni tribes can be negotiated with (already they are saying that they won't boycott the next election), but there is a hardcore of Saddam's men with blood on their hands and the AQ/Wahabbis who must be killed off, because there is no negotiating with them. As the Iraqi troops come on line, the US troops will draw down. Insurgencies can be defeated when only a small part of the population supports them. This insurgency doesn't have majority support even among the Sunni, let alone the other 80% of Iraq.