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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (241699)	9/13/2007 10:05:04 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

According to you tried and failed, no? You are doing double counting here nadine. First al queda is a huge threat. Now the surge has wiped them out. Lets face facts. Al quaeda got support from the tribes and the baathists to fight us. What they got from al q, they did not like, thus the pre-surge tribal leader approach to the US. Can al queda make trouble again, especially after we pull out, sure they can. Can the sunnis now in control beat them back with much larger numbers they have, certainly. Should we support non-al quaeda sunnis during the time we are in iraq and post our departure from most combat. Absolutely. Please dont double count these folks. Bernie Ebbers is in jail for doing such things.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (241699)	9/13/2007 10:55:38 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"How can an Iraqi civil war, especially one being deliberately fomented by an externally funded and led organization, be irrelevant to the final disposition of the country?" It obviously cannot. The infiltration of Iranians and Al Qaeda into Iraq is a major problem and it needs to be dealt with. One of the successes of the surge is that casualties among the foreign terrorists has mounted, as has the capture rate. People look at the results of their companions when projecting their own future. The more dead terrorists the harder it will be for them to continue to undermine freedom.