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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (755869)	12/8/2006 2:39:09 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "those cowardly europeans have nothing to do but mock us because they lack the balls and the brains, much like in WWII, to fight their own fight..." Eh???????? (The French I understand the temptation to joke about... but, are you saying that the Germans, the Russians, the Brits didn't have the "balls" to fight in WW II? That just wouldn't make any sense, since all were fighting longer then we were, and consequently suffered higher casualities....)

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (755869)	12/8/2006 2:43:52 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Following your premise, why not draw back to Iraq's north, (the future kurdistan the way things are going) and get out of the sectarian fight? Let Shiite and Sunni have at it over their 1000 year old differences unrelated to the issues with the U.S.? Wouldn't we be beter able then to fight this generation long struggle you describe on battlefields better suited to what WE are trying to achieve? It seems the Shia and Sunni in Iraq have their own issues to resolve. And our brave men and women are stuck in the middle....And if we rethink Iraq, the struggle in Afghanistan could be fought better, as it could everywhere else. We can change our minds about where and when to fight. And how. Another year in Iraq as it now stands will not further success in the War on Terror. The Iraqis don't have the political will to save themselves from the Sectarian hatred imbued in their culture. That seems to be the single most cogent concensus from every study done.