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To: Sam who wrote (36632)	4/22/2007 10:29:50 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541930

Good grief, Elroy, I wish you were writing satire. I fear you're not though. I'm just writing things as I see them. You're probably reading something into my writing that is not there - you seem to think there is something in what I wrote that says the coalition invasion was a justified, good thing. I didn't say that - I didn't make any judgement on the decision to go into Iraq. I'm not judging coalition action in Iraq as right or wrong, or justified or unjustified, I'm just stating the facts. The coalition won the war with Saddam's regime. If the US leaves Iraq a year from now, the US will not have been defeated in anything other than the part of the activity in Iraq that was designed to make life for Iraqis post-Saddam comparable to what most people in the developed countries on the planet enjoy. Saying the US is experiencing defeat in Iraq now is comparable to saying the NGOs are being defeated in Darfur. The NGOs may be failing to help the people of Darfur, but the NGOs are still around. Generally, when a nation gets defeated, it gets destroyed, as in what happened to Saddam's regime.