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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (173779)	11/1/2005 9:01:57 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But I want to see the other side offer some CREATIVE and REALISTIC SOLUTIONS of their own... I don't see CREATIVE as a necessary quality. But the REALISTIC is a real killer. There are no REALICTIC solutions because the Administrtion won't do them, sic DOA. The only approach that this Administration will take is: "Stay the Course". That's what we have to live with, right or wrong, the Administration isn't going to make any substantive changes. It never made any sense to maintain Iraq as a single country. Eventually is will split up. It would have been easier to do it earlier but that opportunity is now passed with the passing of the Constitution. Iraq will divide and it's most likely that it will divide through civil war. The Shia could decide to cleanse Iraq of Sunnis. jttmab

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (173779)	11/1/2005 7:26:17 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I should take the non-disagreement and run, I guess, but the CAPS business is sort of irritated. My personal creative solution from way back was to send Rummy or Wolfowitz or, lord help us, Cheney himself to run Iraq. They got us into this mess. I guess Rummy is the best candidate because of his scrupulous micromanagement of force levels and the whole "stuff happens" thing. As far as alternate solutions, there was this article fairly recently, if you want a military solution: Message 21646865 , evaluated by op-ed type Brooks in Message 21645745 . Being of the conventional reality school, though, I view it as something of a non-starter. The crap about "B*tching and Moaning" demoralizing the troops is pretty ridiculous, though. I can't imagine anything seen or heard in the much dreaded MSM comparable in demoralizing effects to actually being in Iraq. You think if the dreaded MSM stuck to feel good propaganda and faithful reporting of whatever "things are going really well" PR campaign W's handlers are pushing at the moment would make the troops feel better, when they got conventional reality staring them in the face day-to-day? Maybe in some true believer parallel universe.