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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7866)	12/22/2006 1:09:33 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

Then why is it that most of Iraq is relatively peaceful? Peaceful? Three (3) thousand Iraqis die each month from violence. That is equivalent to us having a 9-11 occur every three days 365 days for three years. I guess it all depends on how you define peaceful. From your comments, you obviously prefer total chaos and regional civil war between Sunnis and Shi'a rather than continuing to work to influence reconciliation and formation of a peace agreement that all sides can live with. We have to do something different than what we are doing. No one, including Bush, think that we can stay the course. The ISG is a bi-partisan approach (or road map) to try something different. The authors of the ISG proposal include Meese, Baker, O'Connor, Eagleburger, etc. These are thoughtful people. They have intelligence, knowledge, and proven success. What you have come with is the question of whether we're at war with Islamic Jihadists or not? We are spending (when all costs are included) something like $2 trillion dollars on this Iraq mess. There is nothing more than what Islamic Jihadists strategists would like more than to get us bogged down in Iraq. Islamic Jihadism is a global issue. It is not a fight that we have go into by ourselves. Muslim moderates have also to be engaged.