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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (755376)	11/30/2006 11:22:19 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So...using your analysis.... Would anyone have suggested in the 1960s that the fight for civil rights should have been abandoned because the Ku Klux Klan membership swelled and they were commiting murder and other mayhem to stop the movement...? You think that because a bunch of whackos join a death cult which has the US as a sworn enemy that they should be able to make miserable the lives of million of innocent people living in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc....because they are violent savages? We will pay the price if we abandon the Iraqis as millions did all over SE Asia when we abandoned Vietnam.....that is the essential difference between Iraq and Vietnam. J.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (755376)	11/30/2006 11:43:47 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

We cannot abandon Iraq. If we do it endorses civil war. The war between extremists factions of Shi'ite and Sunni will be backed by Iran et al for the Shi'ite and Saudi et al for the Sunni. The victor would have the wealth of the world at their feet and the alliance of up and coming superpower neighbors. They would have developed a modern effective and hungry fighting force in the process. They would have bolstered the confidence of millions, possibly a billion people waiting for a world Khalifate. Both sides hold us as their next target of opportunity. The victor, therefore, wins a bid to the greatest superbowl of them all... the one we call Armageddon. We can not abandon Iraq at this juncture, no matter how messy and no matter what the cost of our continued participation