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To: KonKilo who wrote (23288)	7/10/2006 12:35:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541415

No, we were for a time but are no longer occupiers. Iraq has its own elected government. Are you suggesting that our armed forces are taking orders from the Iraqi govt? No I am not suggesting that. "Not directly taking orders from the Iraqi government" does not equal "enforcing the edits of an occupying power." Sectarianism is not noted for its reasonable responses. You said "Can you imagine if Iraqis were occupying America and one of them raped and killed one of our fair 15 year-olds? I suspect you would not be as quick to rationalize if the shoe were on the other foot." In other words you where talking about me not a highly sectarian person or a prickly nationalist. As for Iraq I imagine that if you add up the ambivalent, conflicted, and uncertain you would have a majority. Those who totally appose our presence and want us out now, would be a minority, although not an insignificant one.