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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (320927)	1/15/2007 2:46:55 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585851

Nothing happens in a vacuum, Elroy. It's all connected. Too many people want to treat 9/11 as just an isolated incident by a band of rogue Muslim extremists. The truth is that many factors contributed, and America's retreat from Somalia is just one of them. Sure, but you're heading toward the butterfly flapping its wings causing 9/11. When you say leaving Iraq will be like Blackhawk Down x 100 its similar to saying leaving Iraq is like a butterfly flapping its wings x 100, in other words meaningless. Can you tell me what was bad to the US about leaving Somalia? If I were you, and you wind up in Somalia, leave! You mean like Iran or Saudi Arabia? Too much oil wealth flows from Iran and Saudi Arabia into the hands of terrorists. This is said continuously by our government but seldom proven. How much money do think went from those two countries to terrorist that are dedicated to attacking the USA in 2006, and where did you get the info? I have ZERO data on this, and I certainly don't trust the Bush administration's claims. If you have data please share it, if you don't, why do you make the claim? I only brought up the oil factor because that's the difference between unstable African regions and unstable Middle Eastern regions. Who knows - leaving Iraq may significantly increase the USA's standing in the ME as the residents of that region go out of their way trying to kill each other, and the last man standing wants us to buy their oil! It's definitely not a given that departing from Iraq will be harmful to the USA. We'd have to wait and see what comes out of our departure to make that assessment. My guess is that the Kurds and Iraqi Shias would be pretty pro-American (at least relative to their views of Sunnis or Persian Shias). As for the Iraqi Sunnis, they may dislike us for ending their reign of terror over their countrymen, but they don't have any oil.