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To: Sam who wrote (228328)	4/23/2007 10:29:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

IMHO, but even more than that--it was stupid. Stupid because the probability of actually creating a functioning government for Iraq was so low. Oh.. so it's going to be some kind of act of "brilliance" to unilaterally withdraw from Iraq? Somehow a functioning government is going to arise after we leave? Is THIS the best logic you can provide us with to defend your argument? Can't the same argument be made for Afghanistan? You appear to be incapable of getting that the Shia don't particularly like us either--they actually remember <gasp> what happened in the early 90s when Saddam mowed them down. And in the 80s when we were supporting Saddam. What a concept--a people with a memory. Oh.. another stroke of brilliant deduction. We abandon the Shi'a once and they don't like us. We abandon them twice and sudddenly they won't hate us EVEN MORE? The "inevitable" is never inevitable until you decide to permit it be inevitable. And defeat is not inevitable in Iraq unless we CHOOSE to let the other side win. You want to talk about "inevitable".. What will be inevitable should the Jihadists win in Iraq is that the students there will find themselves relegated to Jihad, instead of educating themselves how to bring progress and peace to their country: news.yahoo.com "We denounce the shooting in Virginia Tech because it targeted students of knowledge," said Hassan Abdul-Karim, a junior engineering major who said he has lost two friends to deadly insurgent attacks in his neighborhood of Baghdad. "Al-Qaida in Iraq does the same thing here in an effort to make ignorance prevail so its ideology can win." Hawk