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To: Dayuhan who wrote (217357)	2/9/2007 9:16:20 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm not talking about this from an ideological basis, I was against the entire thing before it began. We were being pushed and shoved into a war based on baloney and I knew it so I'm sure many other people knew it as well. What I'm asking is why the US Military can't bring order, not democracy, simply order to a country that Saddam had brought some semblance of order to. Saddam did a lousy job and killed many people but the US Military is having a worse result and is also killing many people. What is it about what Saddam did that the US Military is incapable of duplicating or, better yet, improving upon? The US is essentially fighting 4 'foes': Sunni insurgents, Shiite militia, AQ and general 'criminal' mayhem. Saddam didn't have the Sunnis or AQ but he did have the Kurds and, of course, Iran. Saddam also didn't have the US' resources. Why can't the US military bring order, just order, to Iraq? On NBCNews tonight, the sgt interviewed there seemed to be just as confused as I am. He was feeling pretty hopeless.