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To: Cogito who wrote (49088)	2/13/2008 5:00:34 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543106

If the Iraqis were unified and moderate, there could be a good chance of knitting together a successful state. But the three factions barely get along, the national parliament gets very little done, the police is largely a militia for one group, etc. We can't solve those problems for the Iraqis, as much as we have tried. Right now we are garrisoning the streets and trying to get the locals to behave. We could keep doing that indefinitely and not achieve more than keeping a lid on. We need a better plan than that for the next five years.

To: Cogito who wrote (49088)	2/14/2008 9:53:03 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543106

HBO had a Baghdad Hospital documentary that I taped and watched last night. If anyone wants to know why we should leave Iraq ASAP this was good evidence. The battle between the Sunni's and Shiite's is just not our problem. We created it by removing Saddam but we are scape goats now and the last scene of a woman in an ambulance screaming, bring back Saddam. He was a tyrant but we were not bombed in the streets every day. Other interesting fact, there were millions appropriated to private contractors to build hospitals for the Iraqi's and you should see the conditions in which they work as where did the money go ? No one knows... Not only are the conditions deplorable but the supplies...plasma,antibiotic...almost non existent. Informative documentary.. taken by an Iraqi who had to have his voice disguised as both Sunnis and Shites work together in the hospital and are friends but either side would resent the pictures being taken.