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To: bentway who wrote (209499)	11/30/2006 9:59:45 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Barring our inventing a time machine and going back and NOT invading Iraq, there isn't any stopping the Iraqi civil war. Your notion that we can stop it is, in it's own way, as wrongheaded as W's idea of invading the place. We can't even control Baghdad NOW with the bulk of our troops there! We'll just get MORE Americans killed and only PERHAPS postpone and prolong the inevitable. We agree that we should not have started this thing, but the reason for this chaos is because the administration wasted our military and financial resources by going to war on false pretenses. They elected to go to war under false pretenses. They were fooling the public and they were fooling themselves. They tried to fight a war without declaring war and without a plan for occupation, without an exit strategy, and without adequate funding. But, it is not true that given where we are, there is no solution to this mess. Of course there is a solution. only the solution would cost a lot of money and a lot of other resources that the American people are very unlikely to go along with. If you are right that we have to leave and let the Iraqi's fight it out, the fear is that the whole region will be dragged in - and the mess will be far greater than it is now.