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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (173766)	10/31/2005 6:41:50 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Vietnam is my comparison Nikole. The others are in different categories. Vietnam is the correct parallel. The Shia and the Kurds VASTLY outnumber the insurgents and the jihaddis, even if you count ALL the Sunni as insurgents, which they aren't. Saddam is GONE. Why do they NEED our help NOW? Do you HAVE any answer? We've been at this for going on three years and progress seems absent. We'll be leaving soon, no matter what the chimp wants. Iraq is looking like another Harriet Meirs decision even to his fellow Repugnicans, and some of them have elections coming up..

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (173766)	10/31/2005 6:52:51 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Japan and Germany were devastated. They were occupied for years, and their will to fight was gone. There was NO significant resistance in either country- did you know that not one soldier was attacked by Japanese during the occupation? And I believe there were only 40 attacks on troops by Germans. I looked it up, and the difference between WWII and Iraq is just amazing. I don't know if you know just how devastated Japan and Germany were, and how many Japanese and Germans died- but look it up, it will give you pause. Maybe we could "rebuild" Iraq if we were willing to "pacify" it the way we pacified Japan and Germany, but since Germany and Japan were aggressors, and Iraq wasn't, I'm not sure the world would stand for the pacification program. Know what I mean?