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To: combjelly who wrote (253840)	10/5/2005 10:26:14 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574127

Then why do we still read about such things as Operation River Gate? When the US feels the need to retake whole towns, and several of them at that, it doesn't sound like the war is over. Good point. These are the actions we would like to see the "Iraqi defense force" or whatever they are called, undertaking. The failure to rapidly build an Iraqi defense force is one area where the post-invasion activity is really failing. Still, I wouldn't call it a war. War is a much larger nation versus nation or local population versus local population action, and it generally occurs on a much larger scale. hese Operation River Gate things are more of an attempted suppression of a guerilla movement. It's activity that SHOULD be undertaken by the local population, but (supposedly) the locals aren't yet trained for that. It is a matter of semantics, but I don't think the term war (and all the patriotic, moral high ground, etc., etc. repurcussions that that term implies) are deserved. Bush gets away with a lot of crap by referring to things as part of the "war" on terror, and its a misusage of the word, in my opinion.