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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23484)	10/7/2008 4:35:04 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

I thought the answer was pretty honest --- considering that that was the same public justification given by President Bush and other officials for the surge when he announced it (to give space for, to enable the Iraqi political process to proceed to creating Iraqi reconciliation... new oil law, new elections with the Sunnis, settlement of 'Kurdish question' in Kirkurk, etc.) Has it 'succeeded' by bringing about those things yet? Well... no, but maybe it still will... or maybe not. (Question becomes: how long are we willing to foot the bill? How long allow Iraq to suck up so much of our attention and our money, and reduce our capabilities in other parts of the world?) Certainly more 'honest' then saying that "there is no history of Sunni and Shia conflict". :-) (Cause they've been fighting each other on and off for nigh-on to a thousand years. <g>)