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To: michael97123 who wrote (229260)	5/1/2007 11:59:00 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

UW's comments are interesting to me as well. And as for me, I must be in the passive part of the p-a syndrome...Right now, I'm thinking "screw it"....maybe the terrorists will just come and do whatever it is they will do here, and then let everyone wonder how it happened.... BTW, Chernoble is still not habitable ....not in the slightest.

To: michael97123 who wrote (229260)	5/1/2007 3:48:13 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

This is something I posted on another subject: I have a very important question that everyone commenting on the Iraq situation might wish to reflect on prior to writing or saying anything in public about it. If we have lost the War On Terror / Iraq Theatre, who has won? Iraqi Shites? Iraqi Sunni? Syria? Russia? France? Saudi Arabia? Iran? Palestine? Jordan? Further more which of those would you see as been the most beneficient to the Iraqi citizenry? If we have not lost it, but are losing it, who would you like us to declare the victor? .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. I must blame President Bush for not working harder to keep the American people focused on the War On Terror. He is equally to blame as the traitorous democrats (and their media handlers) who view the emasculation of the American military as a political football which gives them political power. "at that point the sunnis will take care of the FOREIGN terrorists and former baathists " Message 23430589

To: michael97123 who wrote (229260)	5/1/2007 3:58:08 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I have believed for awhile that american departure will lead to more violence initially but i think things can be sorted out and i dont see it as an automatic victory at all for al quaeda in iraq It would be an enormous victory for al Qaeda, because it would be claimed as one in propaganda. What happens on the ground matters less. Even if the Iraqis finish up their civil war and turn on al Qaeda and drive them out, it would still be an enormous al Qaeda victory. And I doubt the Iraqis would be able to drive al Qaeda out, because there will always be some weak, Salafi-inclined Sunni tribe for whom al Qaeda's help was well worth the price of submission they demanded.