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To: TimF who wrote (237454)	6/15/2005 7:13:07 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576858

There are more profound issues, such as how Arab's in general view the USA, the US's ties to Israel, USA's conflation of oil & security vs respect for Iraq, and heavy handed military policies. Those are all potential issues, some of them are important issues, but none of them are THE issue in Iraq. I'll have to disagree with you on this one. I stand by my earlier statement "The root problem in this case is that you have some Islamic fundamentalists and some Baathists who would rather rule the country than have the current government be in charge." Yes there is a back story to that fact, and there are issues that effect the insurgency, but that back story and those issues, are not the root issue themselves. I would define the primary issue more closely than that........there is a power vacuum in Iraq and there is a struggle is to fill that vacuum. ted