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To: Bill who wrote (707267)	10/14/2005 11:20:46 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Possibly... but they are still a small percentage of the total insurgents. Polling indicates overwhelming majorities of Iraqis want all 'foreigners' to leave. (That includes the allies, and the foreign arab jihadists as well. Were we not there to rally the nationalists against our presence, the environment would be very hostile to the foreign arab fighters. And, as I mentioned, the Sunni sorts such as al Qaeda are openly at war with the Shiites... so they will find no support or solice there, and the Iranian-backed Shiite insurgents, and foreign non-Arab Iranian Shiites themselves, will find no support among the Sunni Arab population of Iraq. We are only worsening the situation by our occupation. The inevitable Sunni/Shi'a confruntation after we remove ourselves from the equation, will play out very much to the benefit of our own national interests.)