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To: epicure who wrote (28626)	9/13/2006 12:25:19 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541644

<I don't see the Iraqis as ending up being forgiving- do you?> The way we are going why should they? But I would not agree that there is nothing we can do to regain at least some sense of good will. 1. Iraq is probably now lost as a country -- it really no longer exists. We might have little choice but to accept the de facto partition of the country -- we are close to than now anyway -- into three regions. Doing this sets in motion the potential for new regional wars -- but we have painted ourselves into a corner where that is a chance we might have to take. 2. If we are going to do reconstruction then we need to get on with it like we really mean it and do it in a way that actually provides benefit to Iraqis rather than the pigs at the trough in Washington. 3. We need to establish control of the street -- period. If we don't control the streets then we don't control Iraq -- and I don't mean we should do it forever, but we need to stop the daily bloodletting. We brewed a poisonous cocktail of deception, greed and ideology. We drank it and force fed it to Iraq. It is time to puke it up and clean up this mess with honesty, integrity and commitment -- all of which have been in very short supply up until now.