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To: TimF who wrote (202791)	9/13/2006 12:50:15 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We created a failed state in what was once Iraq. We maintain enough troops in Iraq to play a major role in the daily routine of killings and reprisals. We don't control Iraq and never did. There are a handful of people whose names appeared on ballots but they no more run Iraq than do you and I. What was once Iraq now exists in a state of civil war where we are but one of the waring parties. The only reason we don't have an army of occupation at this point is that Iraq no longer exists and we don't control what used to be Iraq. We have an army there -- but the occupation of Iraq never really got off the ground -- we haev been fighting amongst the ruins of what was once Iraq since the early days of failures of the invasion.