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To: michael97123 who wrote (182050)	2/17/2006 4:38:02 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

They will ask us and we should go or we should set a timetable to light a fire under the asses of the good iraqis to help win this uncivil war we/they are in. I certainly agree with this statement, except for us setting a timetable... What we should do is present them with a target for our troop reductions, NOT our full-scale pull-out. That final withdrawal of US and other coalition forces must be the decision of the Iraqi government.. Because we are there under UN mandate and technically the Iraqi government will need to make their request for withdrawal through the UN. Thus, so long as the UN continues to mandate a military and advisory presence in Iraq, we must do our part to uphold it.. It's, as I've stated previously, the reputation of the US at stake and what "signals" we send, but also important for the credibility of the UN. The UN is full of corruption and incompetence. For its very viability as a world body, we can no more make a unilateral decision to end our participation in Iraq than we could to declare Saddam's regime in "material breach"... There's a process that needs to be followed in order to preserve international order and freedom and the institutions we've created to preserve that goal. Hawk