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To: tejek who wrote (234229)	5/22/2005 2:16:16 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575257

What is going on in Iraq is a sustained offensive. Your posts are a sustained offensive, and they are torturing me to death.....

To: tejek who wrote (234229)	5/24/2005 8:46:36 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575257

According to Webster's, the definition of "sustained" means to keep up or prolong. I have been using it that way throughout the entire conversation. Not exactly to prolong, but "prolonged", the adjective not the past tense verb. If you want you can call the fighting in Iraq sustained, but the fighting in Iraq has not been one long offensive by the insurgents. If it was, well a multi-year offensive certainly would be sustained, but its hard to think of too many offensives throughout history that have lasted that long. The war has been sustained (although its wouldn't really be considered a very long war yet, but still I'll accept that it is "sustained"), but it is not a sustained offensive. Tim