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To: RetiredNow who wrote (324416)	2/2/2007 11:42:50 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575381

"Difference is that stability in Iraq is in our best interests." We had stability with Saddam. We're the ones who caused the instability, by deposing Saddam's Sunni government and installing a Shia one. If we left, instability in Iraq would no longer be in Iran's interest. Not that they could "stabilize" the place! I don't think ANYBODY can stabilize Iraq until a lot of blood has been shed in their civil war. The sooner we leave, the less of it will be ours..

To: RetiredNow who wrote (324416)	2/3/2007 1:22:17 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575381

Difference is that stability in Iraq is in our best interests. Nope. Think about what stability would produce versus what chaos would produce. Stability = Radical Muslims that hate Israel and "the West" have another location from which to plot and plan their deeds. Israel has another, stronger ME country that hates it. Muslims worldwide are united in their view that "the West" is against them and attacking them, producing the reactions against "the West" by a few Muslims that we are fighting in the George Bush's War on Terror. Chaos = Sunnis and Shias descend into a major civil war, it pulls in Iran on the Shia side and SA and Jordan on the Sunni side. The ME Muslims are fighting amongst each other for some period of years. Affect on US interests - they are too focused on battling each other to blow up a subway line in Manhatten. Radical Muslims worldwide have to go to the world's Muslim hotspot (Iraq) and fight for their side (Sunni or Shia) against the enemy, who in this case happens to also be a Muslim, just the wrong kind. Your assumption is that stability keeps the US forces in Iraq, which it won't. It also will get the US out of there as soon as feasible.