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To: Alighieri who wrote (246048)	8/15/2005 11:51:19 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1574804

The decling support comes from deteriorating conditions and lack of progress. Agreed on the lack of progress issue. Its hard to understand how the coalition can have been training Iraqis to defend their country, and in the past three years have produced only two and a half Iraqi police (or whatever the number is). It seems clear that no one had any decent plan for what to do following the collapse of Saddam's regime. There is one thing you said, i don't know if you meant it, with whih I agree, and that is that we can't win this non war. The good folks are beginning to come to the same conclusion. Of course we can't indefinitely police their population and call it a victory. What we can do is deliver the ~300k (or whatever the number will be) trained Iraqi police (why does it take more than 3 months to train a cop?), and depart, at least to coalition bases. They will have to destroy their insurgency themselves. Coalition presence on a day to day basis is one of the big causes of insurgency, so there is no way coalition presence can destroy it. Just because I think Ted is a fool doesn't mean I have changed any of my negative views of Bush's execution of the post-Saddam situation.