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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (72886)	6/18/2008 7:03:45 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542539

There's no doubt Friedman got Iraq wrong in 2002 and 2003. I think he's written as much. But the question he poses here, how to extract from Iraq without making matters worse than they are today, is almost the one that needs to be asked. I think, however, Obama was closer in those senate hearings, when he asked the probabilities questions: what strategies are least likely to produce a catastrophe on the way out. But I assume Obama would now include in that question more than military matters, the issue he was putting to Petreaus. There is an entire diplomatic side to things that has to be considered as well.