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To: Elroy who wrote (299660)	8/13/2006 3:06:04 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578930

Each Iraqi that chooses to join a destructive "insurgency" (which is actually just a group of violent mobsters) rather than the Iraqi policeforce is essentially a failure of the Iraqis to take advantage of the opportunity given to them. I consider it a failure of the Iraqi people, not the US. The US certainly has had lots of problems in its role in Iraq post-Saddam, but the success or failure of the mission rests in the hands of Iraqis. They will live (or die) with whatever comes out of the situation in Iraq, we will eventually just up and leave. The Bush administration was warned that the above would be a likely result of the invasion. They ignored that warning and proceeded with their invasion. Don't you think that makes them culpable?

To: Elroy who wrote (299660)	8/15/2006 12:11:35 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578930

Elroy, maybe you could move your family over there and RALLY the people to throw out the thugs. Before you go over to Iraq, maybe you could just move the family to S. Los Angeles (Compton) and get rid of all the gangs there as practice. It doesn't take a LOT of armed fanatics to disrupt a society. Check out how people were afraid to venture out when that Malvo sniper guy and his buddy were roaming around the Virginia area. If we started having suicidal car bombers with unlimited munitions in the U.S. we would CEASE to exist as a society and NONE of us would start blaming "ourselves" because we weren't "standing up" to the thugs. We'd be blaming the people that were supposed to be providing security. It's ridiculous and demeaning to the Iraqis to blame the mess they're in on anybody but this Administration and its LOUSY disinterested war planning.