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To: michael97123 who wrote (248484)	11/14/2007 1:06:09 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

If you view the removal of saddam and a freeing of the shiaas and kurds as a good thing, then we can say mission completed. No one as actually been "freed" Michael. That is what you miss. You are only looking at short term matters. The Shia and the Kurds still must deal with their own internal conflicts as well as with more conflicts with Sunnis and Turks. The Iraqi situation isn't now and was never one that can be ameliorated with a "splendid little war," as Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld appeared to have believed in the beginning. It was the country that made Saddam as much as Saddam making the country. And sticking our weapons into it wasn't going to change that unless we were committed to a wholesale destruction. Which we weren't, fortunately. We should have stuck to aiming at the real Al Qaeda. I've got too much to do today to spend any more time on this for now.