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To: RMF who wrote (336782)	5/8/2007 6:48:34 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1577931

re: If we had sent in ENOUGH troops with specific sector responsibilities in the first place then we might have created* the type of Iraq that we and the Iraqis were hoping for.* The problem is that "we" can't "create" Iraq (or any other country). We can destroy it, but we can't create it.

To: RMF who wrote (336782)	5/8/2007 8:22:15 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577931

"The "surge" is basically an integration of American troops into individual neighborhoods." Yeah. We go in, pick where we want the neighborhood Fort Apache, evict the Iraqis living there and for an area around the place. We recycle what structures we can and bulldoze those we can't, including an area around the place, in which all the Iraqis are evicted and we bulldoze their houses flat, to give us a good field of fire in the "security zone. Then, we put up 20 ft. prefab reinforced concrete wall and a circular watch/gun tower or two. We're not only winning hearts and minds like mad, we're giving the insurgents softer and more diverse fixed targets to choose from scattered all over Baghdad as compared from when we used to just do patrols and ops from the Green Zone. Thus, the increased US casualties, which will only get much worse as the insurgents adapt and exploit the new situation. You seem to think the Iraqis WANT us there. Polls have shown that isn't true, and 60% of Iraqis think it's a good thing to kill Americans..