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To: epicure who wrote (225739)	3/30/2007 8:52:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 281500

Any occupying power would be subject to attack. That means that it is not so much a function of who the power is, ie that we are American, but rather that we are occupiers, and in the middle of a power struggle. You say "subject to attack" as if that meant we had no right to resent it, or consider the attacker an enemy. Not so. If Iran takes sections of Iraq, won't it too be an "occupying power subject to attack"? Or does your rulebook work only in one direction? Also, Iran is attacking precisely and specifically because we are America and they hate us so much. Rationally speaking, they should be supporting the consolidation of the present Iraqi government because it is Shia dominated and they can have a great influence over it. So they should not be adding the violence and sectarian killing that is undermining the government. But no, they hate us too much.