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To: Dale Baker who wrote (19976)	5/31/2006 11:44:15 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541488

Clearly we are now in the "securing" phase :-) Don't let the fact that Iraq is not getting more secure confuse you.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (19976)	6/8/2006 2:37:11 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541488

If the term "major operations" doesn't apply to 135,000 troops taking casualties of 2000 dead and 17,000 wounded It wasn't "major operations", it was "major combat operations". It might not have been 100% accurate (the attack on Fallujah could be considered a later major combat operation depending on what your threshold for major is) but it was mostly correct. There have been little or no major combat operations. Which doesn't mean that people haven't died and been wounded and money hasn't been spent. But a lot of people can die violently without any major combat operations. Or even without minor combat operations, for example - fbi.gov