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To: TimF who wrote (202848)9/13/2006 5:48:53 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<we passed over power> We move about anywhere we want in Iraq and kill as we please. The government such as it is an empty powerless shell. To the extent that anybody is "running" this lawless mess, it is the US military.



To: TimF who wrote (202848)9/13/2006 5:53:50 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Here is a test of the extent to which we are an occupying power:

If after meeting with Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iraq's Prime Minister told us to get out of Iraq tomorrow, would we go?

<Iran says U.S. departure would calm Iraq By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

TEHRAN, Iran - Supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting Iraqi prime minister Wednesday that the way to end instability in Iraq is for U.S. forces to withdraw.>


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