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To: Dayuhan who wrote (217315)	2/9/2007 8:46:34 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

How do you know any of this? Have you done a poll? "...but they don't think they can have them unless they maintain political control." I see all of these assumptions being tossed about which are just as absurd as the assumptions made leading into this war. How does anyone know? We barely understand what Americans want (and then the politicos ignore it) and we can be polled. It's simply logical that people are people the world over and that they will act in the same manner, given the same incentives and disincentives, as people the world over. When Bremmer told some 20% of the population that their lives were over, what the blooming heck did anyone think would happen? So many of the accounts I've read said that there was a window of opportunity, before chaos took hold, to have a socio-political solution. It wouldn't have been perfect or necessarily peaceful but it would have an end game. There would be something that the Iraqis and the US would be moving towards. Instead, does anyone know what in the world the end game is today? Is it division? Is it a new strong man? Is it regional war? What in the world is the goal of all of this fighting?